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Cascade Classic - NE
Oregon, USA, July 6-10, 2005
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Stage 2 - July 7: Pacific Power Cascade Lakes Road Race, 90/75 miles
Armstrong gets one for T-Mobile
Moninger makes it 2 for 2 for Health Net
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Women's racing got underway today at the Cascade Classic with an 81 mile loop around Mt Bachelor and the Cascade Lakes. After a steady tempo on the starting climb, disaster struck on the descent as nearly 20 riders went down in a high speed wreck with bikes flying overhead. Leah Goldstein (Trek - Red Truck Racing Team) and Cat Malone (Webcor) took the brunt of it with Goldstein being airlifted out.
The pack sat up and waited for riders to rejoin for about half an hour before racing again in earnest. At that point T-Mobile took the proverbial bull by the horns and sent attack after attack up the road until Kori Seehafer got a gap just after the first feed zone. She went into full TT mode and grew her advantage to over 2 minutes as the outnumbered Webcor team tried to bring her back.
As the race hit the final 10 mile climb, Seehafer's gap went down to a minute very quickly. After the race Seehafer said "Someone told me it was 20 miles to go when it was really only about 10. That just cracked me mentally." She held on to her lead until just after the QOM at 3 miles to go when her team mates took over.
After Seehafer was caught, it was time for a different magenta clad woman to lead as Kimberly Baldwin attacked bringing Kristin Danielson (Ford-Basis) with her. Then Kristin Armstrong (T-Mobile) bridged across giving T-Mobile a 2 to 1 advantage briefly before Erin Mirabella (Bicycle Johns) joined them. Baldwin set a hard tempo allowing Armstrong to sit in and attack for the win. As Armstrong described it "The hardest part for me was patience. I saw the 1k to go sign and I just kept saying to myself 'patience, patience.' Then I saw the left hand arrow going into here and Kimberly was leading so as she went into the corner I went on the inside and I knew that when she saw me do that, just like in a criterium, she would slow things up a little. I just attacked as hard as I could, got a gap, and figured at 200 meters it would be really hard to close that so I just put my head down and went for it."
Moninger masters the mountain
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The men's race was a lot less straight forward as a dangerous group went on the first climb up to Mt Bachelor ski area containing National TT Champ Chris Baldwin (Navigators), Tour of the Gila winner Burke Swindlehurst (Sea Silver), Sea Otter Classic winner Doug Ollerenshaw (Health Net pb Maxxis), Jon Tarkington (Vitamin Cottage) and David Robinson (TIAA-CREF). Riders continued to bridge across including GC threats Scott Moninger (Health Net) and Cesar Grajales (Navigators). Also making the cut was Grajales's teammate Jeff Louder who went right to the front of the now 11 man group to drive the pace with Baldwin.
This group gained a little over a minute advantage and that would be the status quo for about 20 miles until a large group of 14 came across the gap including Health Net powerhouses Mike Sayers and Tyler Farrar. The Health Net boys had a free ride until yet another group of 7 bridged up with overnight race leader Gord Fraser. This changed the tactics such that Health Net were now the ones driving the pace into the base of the final climb in hopes of setting up Moninger.
A daring solo move by a McGuire Real Estate rider lasted for about 10 minutes, but other than that the pack was content to stay together until the final climb.
As the climb began it was Burke Swindlehurst (Sea Silver) who made the first move and stayed away solo for about 2 miles until the reaction came across with the Health Net duo of Moninger and Ollerenshaw, the Navigators trio of Baldwin, Grajales and Louder, and Swindlehurst's teammate Neil Shirley.
Swindlehurst eventually cracked under the pressure of the furious pace-making done by Louder and Baldwin just about the time that Cameron Hughes (Subway) made it across the gap.
Baldwin took the KOM points with 3 miles to go en route to taking over the lead in the climbing jersey competition at the end of the day.
With 2 miles to go Scott Moninger launched a vicious attack that could only be followed by the slightly built Grajales. Baldwin then bridged up to give Navigators the upper hand, but the wily veteran Health Net rider attacked at just the right moment with 250 meters remaining to take the stage victory ahead of Grajales.
After the stage, Moninger said, "I looked over at Grajales and said 'you're ahead of me by 30 seconds on GC, you could ride yourself into the jersey.' But he said 'you're gonna kill me in the time trial!' It was good when Baldwin came up because he drilled it for the last kilometer and I knew it was just going to be him leading Cesar out. Cesar is a great climber, but on a run in like this I've got good acceleration and I can typically recover pretty well at this altitude. I don't think he's that acclimated to 7000 feet because every time I would attack it would take him a while to recover and react to it. I had to redeem myself after yesterday when I got like 22nd place or something like that.
"Things got turned upside down yesterday and then again today so we are kind of rolling the dice and almost treating it like one day races. We're two for two. I can't complain about that."
Photography
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- The first selection forms on the slopes of Mt Bachelor.
- Cesar Grajales made it into the break early on and eventually rode himself onto the stage podium and into the leaders jersey
- Chris Baldwin in TT mode driving the break
- Baldwin and Louder tuck down as they lead the break on a descent
- A McGuire Real Estate rider tries a brave solo move
- Sayers and Farrar drive the pace
- Overnight race leader Gord Fraser rides amongst his Health Net team mates
- Burke Swindlehurst attacks on the final climb
- Swindlehurst quickly gets a gap
- The Navigators were well positioned in the final
- Scott Moninger attacks to force the final selection
- Moninger and Grajales out in front with 2k to go
- Baldwin, Moninger and Grajales - the stage podium
- Moninger attacks for the stage win
- Kristin Armstrong flies through the final corner toward the stage win and the overall lead
- Even the family pet is a T-Mobile fan
Images by Mark Johnson/www.ironstring.com
- The elite women's field on the ascent to Central Oregon's Mount Bachelor ski resort
- After 81 mountainous miles, Kirsten Armstrong (T-Mobile) takes the win ahead of Kristen Danielson (Ford-Basis) and Erin Mirabella (Bicycle Johns).
- Paramount Racing's Abby Cooper took a chainring to the face during a 60 kph downhill crash. While Cooper finished the stage, several other riders went to hospital
- The chainring cuts on Abby Cooper's face will heal. Her carbon fibre wheel won't!
- The Elite men's field was already disintegrating before the first KOM.
- Perennial challenger Scott Moniger (HealthNet/Maxxis) takes the win
- These boys always know what they are having for lunch. Post race truck sit-in
Results
Pro men 1 Scott Moninger (HealthNet/Maxxis) 3.31.28 2 Cesar Grajales (Navigators) 0.03 3 Christopher Baldwin (Navigators) 0.06 4 Jeff Louder (Navigators) 0.17 5 Neil Shirley (Seasilver) 6 Cameron Hughes (Subway) 7 Doug Ollerenshaw (HealthNet/Maxxis) 0.50 8 Tom Peterson (Broadmark Capital) 1.10 9 James Mattis (Webcor) 10 Chris Lieto (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 1.35 11 Aaron Olson (Colavita/Sutter Home) 12 Russell Stevenson (Benaroya Research) 13 Tim Johnson (Jittery Joe's) 14 Jon Tarkington (Vitamin Cottage) 15 Daniel Bowman (TIAA-CREF) 16 Burke Swindlehurst (Seasilver) 17 Gord Fraser (HealthNet/Maxxis) 2.02 18 Ben Jacques-Maynes (Kodak Gallery) 2.28 19 David Robinson (TIAA-CREF) 3.37 20 Steven Cozza (USA U-23 National) 3.40 21 Marc Collard (Webcor) 22 Curtis Gunn (Seasilver) 23 Tom Zirbel (Sports Garage) 24 Roman Kilun (McGuire/Langdale) 4.56 25 Andrew Fischer (Broadmark Capital) 5.11 26 Pat Dunaway (McGuire/Langdale) 5.15 27 Geoff Rapoport (McGuire/Langdale) 5.42 28 Todd Cornelius (Subway) 29 Glenn Fant (Monex) 7.14 30 Michael Sayers (HealthNet/Maxxis) 7.30 31 Jesse Gordon (Park City Cycling Academy) 32 Jason Bausch (Seasilver) 33 Evan Elken (Jittery Joe's) 7.49 34 Chris Wherry (HealthNet/Maxxis) 8.03 35 Nathan O'Neill (Navigators) 36 Ryan Yee (Seasilver) 37 John Hunt (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 38 Kyle Gritters (Seasilver) 39 Josh Horowitz (Kahala LaGrange) 40 Phil Zajicek (Navigators) 41 Cameron Brenneman (Kahala LaGrange) 42 Christopher Jones (Karl Strauss/SDBC) 43 Chad Nikolz (Benaroya Research) 44 Andres Gil (Delta Velo) 45 Kevin Bouchard-Hall (US National Team) 46 Christopher Brennan (Team Rio Grande) 47 Andrew Bajadali (Vitamin Cottage) 48 Zak Grabowski (TIAA-CREF) 9.43 49 Esteban Jukich (TitleOne/Orbea) 10.19 50 Jonathan Denison (TitleOne/Orbea) 11.51 51 Eric Pardyjak (Park City Cycling Academy) 12.22 52 Troy Heithecker (Benaroya Research) 53 Matt Dubberley (McGuire/Langdale) 54 Owen Gue (Broadmark Capital) 13.52 55 Jonny Sundt (Jittery Joe's) 56 Taylor Tolleson (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 57 Tyler Farrar (HealthNet/Maxxis) 58 Bernard van Ulden (Webcor) 59 Remi Mcmanus (Subway) 15.42 60 Kirk O'Bee (Navigators) 61 Mike Zagorski (Unattached) 19.49 62 Justin Morgan (Broadmark Capital) 19.52 63 Jeff Hopkins (Jittery Joe's) 64 Charles Coyle (Vitamin Cottage) 65 Alex Rock (Porcupine/Contender) 66 Patrick Briggs (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 67 Sheldon Deeny (TIAA-CREF) 68 Zack Walker (McGuire/Langdale) 69 Pleasure Jackson (Broadmark Capital) 70 Ian MacGregor (TIAA-CREF) 71 Calvin Allan (BODE Cycling) 20.29 72 Craig Wilcox (Jittery Joe's) 73 David Richter (Subway) 74 Christian Johnson (Park City Cycling Academy) 21.00 75 Benjamin Stafford (Webcor) 27.20 Men's General gc after stage 2 1 Cesar Grajales (Navigators) 8.10.47 2 Cameron Hughes (Subway) 0.33 3 Scott Moninger (HealthNet/Maxxis) 0.35 4 Neil Shirley (Seasilver) 0.40 5 Jeff Louder (Navigators) 0.52 6 Gord Fraser (HealthNet/Maxxis) 1.02 7 Christopher Baldwin (Navigators) 1.15 8 Doug Ollerenshaw (HealthNet/Maxxis) 1.25 9 James Mattis (Webcor) 1.33 10 Aaron Olson (Colavita/Sutter Home) 1.51 11 Daniel Bowman (TIAA-CREF) 1.58 12 Russell Stevenson (Benaroya Research) 2.10 13 Tim Johnson (Jittery Joe's) 14 Burke Swindlehurst (Seasilver) 15 Tom Peterson (Broadmark Capital) 2.11 16 Ben Jacques-Maynes (Kodak Gallery) 2.51 17 Chris Lieto (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 3.04 18 Jon Tarkington (Vitamin Cottage) 3.21 19 Steven Cozza (USA U-23 National) 4.15 20 David Robinson (TIAA-CREF) 4.38 21 Curtis Gunn (Seasilver) 5.26 22 Marc Collard (Webcor) 5.41 23 Roman Kilun (McGuire/Langdale) 5.48 24 Tom Zirbel (Sports Garage) 5.52 25 Andrew Fischer (Broadmark Capital) 6.03 26 Pat Dunaway (McGuire/Langdale) 6.30 27 Geoff Rapoport (McGuire/Langdale) 6.51 28 Phil Zajicek (Navigators) 7.03 29 Todd Cornelius (Subway) 7.43 30 Chris Wherry (HealthNet/Maxxis) 8.00 31 Nathan O'Neill (Navigators) 8.10 32 John Hunt (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 8.26 33 Cameron Brenneman (Kahala LaGrange) 34 Andrew Bajadali (Vitamin Cottage) 35 Glenn Fant (Monex) 8.29 36 Josh Horowitz (Kahala LaGrange) 8.38 37 Kevin Bouchard-Hall (US National Team) 38 Christopher Jones (Karl Strauss/SDBC) 8.55 39 Christopher Brennan (Team Rio Grande) 40 Michael Sayers (HealthNet/Maxxis) 8.59 41 Jason Bausch (Seasilver) 9.16 42 Andres Gil (Delta Velo) 9.18 43 Kyle Gritters (Seasilver) 9.26 44 Ryan Yee (Seasilver) 9.49 45 Jesse Gordon (Park City Cycling Academy) 9.57 46 Chad Nikolz (Benaroya Research) 9.59 47 Evan Elken (Jittery Joe's) 10.22 48 Esteban Jukich (TitleOne/Orbea) 11.58 49 Zak Grabowski (TIAA-CREF) 12.16 50 Eric Pardyjak (Park City Cycling Academy) 13.45 51 Troy Heithecker (Benaroya Research) 52 Jonathan Denison (TitleOne/Orbea) 13.52 53 Taylor Tolleson (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 14.27 54 Matt Dubberley (McGuire/Langdale) 15.37 55 Jonny Sundt (Jittery Joe's) 16.04 56 Tyler Farrar (HealthNet/Maxxis) 16.25 57 Bernard van Ulden (Webcor) 17.02 58 Remi Mcmanus (Subway) 19.26 59 Kirk O'Bee (Navigators) 20.30 60 Mike Zagorski (Unattached) 21.45 61 Craig Wilcox (Jittery Joe's) 21.52 62 Justin Morgan (Broadmark Capital) 22.25 63 Sheldon Deeny (TIAA-CREF) 64 Jeff Hopkins (Jittery Joe's) 22.36 65 David Richter (Subway) 22.41 66 Ian MacGregor (TIAA-CREF) 22.58 67 Zack Walker (McGuire/Langdale) 23.07 68 Christian Johnson (Park City Cycling Academy) 23.12 69 Pleasure Jackson (Broadmark Capital) 23.22 70 Patrick Briggs (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 23.30 71 Calvin Allan (BODE Cycling) 24.13 72 Owen Gue (Broadmark Capital) 25.38 73 Benjamin Stafford (Webcor) 30.41 74 Alex Rock (Porcupine/Contender) 31.26 75 Charles Coyle (Vitamin Cottage) 32.43 Team classification 1 Navigators 24.31.51 2 Health Net 2.54 3 Seasilver 8.23 4 TIAA-CREF 17.32 5 Mcguire/Langdale 19.39 6 Webcor Builders Cycling Team 24.46 7 Broadmark Capital Cycling 25.09 8 Benaroya Research 26.24 9 Cal Giant/Village Peddler 26.27 10 Subway 26.40 11 Jittery Joe's 27.56 12 Vitamin Cottage 45.00 Mountains classification 1 Christopher Baldwin (Navigators) 24 pts 2 Phil Zajicek (Navigators) 16 3 Cesar Grajales (Navigators) 14 4 Gord Fraser (HealthNet/Maxxis) 13 5 Scott Moninger (HealthNet/Maxxis) 8 6 Jeff Louder (Navigators) 7 7 Doug Ollerenshaw (HealthNet/Maxxis) 7 8 Blake Caldwell (TIAA-CREF) 6 9 Jonny Sundt (Jittery Joe's) 5 10 Burke Swindlehurst (Seasilver) 3 11 David Robinson (TIAA-CREF) 2 12 Taylor Tolleson (Cal Giant/Village Peddlar) 2 13 Neil Shirley (Seasilver) 2 14 Chris Wherry (HealthNet/Maxxis) 2 15 Tom Zirbel (Sports Garage) 1 16 Curtis Gunn (Seasilver) 1 17 Nathan O'Neill (Navigators) 1 18 Shawn Milne (Navigators) 1 Women 1 Kristin Armstrong (T-Mobile) 3.40.33 2 Kristin Danielson (Ford-Basis) 0.02 3 Erin Mirabella (Bicycle Johns) 4 Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile) 0.14 5 Kerry Martin (Sunnyside Sports) 0.52 6 Kori Seehafer (T-Mobile) 7 Mandy Lozano (BMW-Bianchi) 8 Mari Holden (T-Mobile) 9 Jennifer Chapman (Velo Bella) 10 Katie Mactier (T-Mobile) 11 Katheryn Curi (Webcor) 12 Lisa Magness (Hutch's Bend) 13 Stefanie Graeter (Webcor) 14 Lara Kroepsh (T-Mobile) 15 Brooke Ourada (T-Mobile) 16 Maria Monica (Left Coast RT) 1.02 17 Heather Holmes (Rocky Mtn Cycling Club) 1.10 18 Monica Neilson (Velo Bella) 1.17 19 Cynthia Carroll (Dewars Racing Team) 1.26 20 Melodie Metzger (Velo Bella) 1.45 21 Erin Alders (Tamarack Resort) 1.58 22 Mariel Ettinger (Collins) 23 Sarah Uhl (QUARK) 24 Laura Erker (Bicycle Johns) 25 Kele Hulser (Ford-Basis) 26 Megan Elliott (Bianchi/Grand Performance) 27 Carrie Eller (Tamarack Resort) 3.56 28 Melissa Sanborn (Subway) 29 Jennifer Wilson (Bicycle Johns) 4.33 30 Jen Joynt (McGuire Cycling) 31 Carli Figueroa (Paramount Racing) 4.39 32 Rebecca Broeder (TDS/Schwalbe) 4.42 33 Julia Whiteside (Paramount Racing) 5.42 34 Crystal Howard (Subway) 6.12 35 Ina Yoko Teutenberg (T-Mobile) 9.11 36 Kristi Mcilmoil (Concept Construction/Fazo) 9.35 37 Kimberley Boester (Webcor) 11.50 38 Amber Rais (Webcor) 39 Martina Patella (Easton / Specialized) 13.13 40 Melinda Johnson (Paramount Racing) 13.20 41 Lana Atchley (Paramount Racing) 14.14 42 Molly Van Houweling (McGuire Cycling) 15.54 43 Stephanie Swan (Durango Wheel Club) 17.35 44 Troy Watson (Organic Athlete) 45 Lisa Hunt (The Olympic Club) 46 Lauren Dorsch (Tamarack Resort) 47 Elizabeth Wistrom 22.40 48 Katharine Lundby (Paramount Racing) 24.48 49 Abby Cooper (Paramount Racing) 50 Tia Bartos 28.22 51 Traci Carroll (Team Rubicon) 52 Christi-An Hansley (Olympus) 29.14 53 Sandra Kolb (Bicycle Johns) 34.52 54 Jules Hanson-Hines (Paramount Racing) 35.59 55 Elizabeth Nettles (Avanti/TiCycles) 42.09 56 Norrene Godfrey (Team Rubicon) 59.36 57 Rebecca Jensen (Whitman College) 1.14.29 DNF Leah Goldstein (Trekredtruckracingteam) DNF Cat Malone (Webcor) DNF Allison Beall Mountains classification 1 Kristin Armstrong (T-Mobile) 19 pts 2 Kori Seehafer (T-Mobile) 8 3 Lisa Magness (Hutch's Bend) 6 4 Kristin Danielson (Ford-Basis) 5 5 Erin Mirabella (Bicycle Johns) 5 6 Leah Goldstein (Trekredtruckracingteam) 5 7 Ina Yoko Teutenberg (T-Mobile) 2 8 Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile) 2 9 Katheryn Curi (Webcor) 1 10 Kerry Martin (Sunnyside Sports) 1
