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Buffalo Report from John Roden
After starting 4 weeks ago on the scorched plains of the greater Pendleton area, the Race to the Sun reached the sunny, verdant hills of Marilla on Sunday. With a warm breeze at our back, the pack rolled down the main street of Marilla, amid the cheers of various stray dogs and free range chickens. With some small hills and a decent selection of crosswinds, the course held the potential to break things up a bit and promote some more aggressive racing, maybe.
The first move of the day found Dorfman and Burget off the front, gaining a couple minutes over the slumbering pack. Despite a large field of about 30 and a pretty flat course, the field showed no great interest in the two riders who were vanishing well up the road.
After maybe 20 miles, the two off the front cracked and it was all even, so a series of attacks started, but the hills were not quite steep or long enough to get the job done. After a long spell of the attack-weld-regroup cycle, a group of about 10 remained. On the bell lap, Skalski noodled off the front and just kept going, going, gone.
On the last time up the rolling hills, Roden, Nye and Halter rolled off the remaining group, but a tactical Halter said no dice and Nye said fiddlesticks to Halters non-work ethic, so Roden joined in the inaction and a perfectly good little spilt was re-absorbed by the dwindling pack.
Garret and Youhess both launched nice "Hail Mary" attacks from the 1K kite but were reabsorbed as the sprint wound up. Nye led the sprint out from a goodly ways, Halter tried to come over the top on the windy side, reconsidered and tried to sneak by on the white line but ended up on the shoulder, bouncing his way into third behind Nye.
Roden slogged in for 4th. with Farrel rounding out the remaining points.
Joe Halter 57
Jason Skalski 54
Ryan Nye 18
John Roden 15
Frank Mesi 8
Dan Staffo 7
Kevin Mahoney 7
Ben Willis 6
Dan Youhess 4
John Garrett 3
Jim Costello 1
Mike Luther 1
Scott Farrel 1
Last Sunday was the final stage of the prestigious Giro Series. The team clinched first place overall with Staffo beating Mr. Sprint himself to the line. It was do or die and Dan put on the after burners to insure overall victory. The last day was anything but tame. Miles before that Rob Dietrick put the winning move on the peleton and brought home the stage victory, claiming third overall for the series.
Buffalo Report from John Roden
After starting 4 weeks ago on the scorched plains of the greater Pendleton area, the Race to the Sun reached the sunny, verdant hills of Marilla on Sunday. With a warm breeze at our back, the pack rolled down the main street of Marilla, amid the cheers of various stray dogs and free range chickens. With some small hills and a decent selection of crosswinds, the course held the potential to break things up a bit and promote some more aggressive racing, maybe.
The first move of the day found Dorfman and Burget off the front, gaining a couple minutes over the slumbering pack. Despite a large field of about 30 and a pretty flat course, the field showed no great interest in the two riders who were vanishing well up the road.
After maybe 20 miles, the two off the front cracked and it was all even, so a series of attacks started, but the hills were not quite steep or long enough to get the job done. After a long spell of the attack-weld-regroup cycle, a group of about 10 remained. On the bell lap, Skalski noodled off the front and just kept going, going, gone.
On the last time up the rolling hills, Roden, Nye and Halter rolled off the remaining group, but a tactical Halter said no dice and Nye said fiddlesticks to Halters non-work ethic, so Roden joined in the inaction and a perfectly good little spilt was re-absorbed by the dwindling pack.
Garret and Youhess both launched nice "Hail Mary" attacks from the 1K kite but were reabsorbed as the sprint wound up. Nye led the sprint out from a goodly ways, Halter tried to come over the top on the windy side, reconsidered and tried to sneak by on the white line but ended up on the shoulder, bouncing his way into third behind Nye.
Roden slogged in for 4th. with Farrel rounding out the remaining points.
Joe Halter 57
Jason Skalski 54
Ryan Nye 18
John Roden 15
Frank Mesi 8
Dan Staffo 7
Kevin Mahoney 7
Ben Willis 6
Dan Youhess 4
John Garrett 3
Jim Costello 1
Mike Luther 1
Scott Farrel 1
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