Ricola And CSC Update
TIME Pro Cycling completed two races in the past week in final preparation for the three-race series commonly known as Philly Week. After the Tour of Somerville, the team had a brief rest on Tuesday before getting back to racing on Wednesday in Basking Ridge, New Jersey for the Ricola Twilight GP. The tough midweek race drew a great field. The racing was aggressive, and TIME was active and represented well throughout the race.
After innumerable breakaways, attacks, and counterattacks, the race came down to a field sprint, which was won by Dominique Rollin. Eric Barlevav once again showed his sprinting prowess as he rolled in to a quality 10th place. Mike Stoop followed in 20th. Most of the field took an early exit and only a small portion of the starters finished - TIME managed to finish all but one.
Following Ricola, it was back down south a bit to Arlington, Virginia for the CSC Invitational. Sunday's CSC Invitational is traditionally one of the hardest criteriums of the year, and this year once again lived up to its reputation, as the usual starting list of the country's best showed up along with riders from High Road, CSC, and Slipstream.
A break of 13 went up the road early led by Magnus Backstedt, and eventually lapped the field. TIME nearly had a man in the move with Eric Barlevav, but Barlevav couldn't quite hold on at the hardest moment, but again, TIME was in the middle of the action.
Mike Stoop rode a solid race as usual and made a hard effort as the race wore on to try and make it across to the break and stayed out for a good seven laps on his own. CyclingNews has two pictures of the effort...HERE and HERE.
In the end, five riders from TIME finished, of which three managed to finish in the money - all in order - 23rd for Stoop, 24th for Guttenplan, and 25th for Myerson. Tom Soladay finished just outside of the money in 33rd and Jackie Simes rode impressively for being all of 19 years old, to finish 60th on the day.
Colavita's Luca Damiani took the win over Toyota's Dominique Rollin and HealthNet's Karl Menzies.
Up next for TIME Pro Cycling are arguably the three biggest races of the year: Lehigh, Reading, and Philadelphia - the three making up the Commerce Bank Triple Crown Of Cycling. Although we may not be poised to win any of these three major events, we have set realistic goals for our team and are excited that our young riders have the opportunity to race with some of the world's best. We hope they seize the opportunity and really showcase themselves and the team.
After innumerable breakaways, attacks, and counterattacks, the race came down to a field sprint, which was won by Dominique Rollin. Eric Barlevav once again showed his sprinting prowess as he rolled in to a quality 10th place. Mike Stoop followed in 20th. Most of the field took an early exit and only a small portion of the starters finished - TIME managed to finish all but one.
Following Ricola, it was back down south a bit to Arlington, Virginia for the CSC Invitational. Sunday's CSC Invitational is traditionally one of the hardest criteriums of the year, and this year once again lived up to its reputation, as the usual starting list of the country's best showed up along with riders from High Road, CSC, and Slipstream.
A break of 13 went up the road early led by Magnus Backstedt, and eventually lapped the field. TIME nearly had a man in the move with Eric Barlevav, but Barlevav couldn't quite hold on at the hardest moment, but again, TIME was in the middle of the action.
Mike Stoop rode a solid race as usual and made a hard effort as the race wore on to try and make it across to the break and stayed out for a good seven laps on his own. CyclingNews has two pictures of the effort...HERE and HERE.
In the end, five riders from TIME finished, of which three managed to finish in the money - all in order - 23rd for Stoop, 24th for Guttenplan, and 25th for Myerson. Tom Soladay finished just outside of the money in 33rd and Jackie Simes rode impressively for being all of 19 years old, to finish 60th on the day.
Colavita's Luca Damiani took the win over Toyota's Dominique Rollin and HealthNet's Karl Menzies.
Up next for TIME Pro Cycling are arguably the three biggest races of the year: Lehigh, Reading, and Philadelphia - the three making up the Commerce Bank Triple Crown Of Cycling. Although we may not be poised to win any of these three major events, we have set realistic goals for our team and are excited that our young riders have the opportunity to race with some of the world's best. We hope they seize the opportunity and really showcase themselves and the team.
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