Monumental Memorial Cycling Weekend - NE

USA, May 27-29, 2006

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Stage 3 - May 28: Road race, 65 miles

Two Stage Wins Earn Grabinger Overall Lead

By Sean Weide

Beatrice, Neb. - Micheal Grabinger of Team Fresh Start did the double Sunday, winning both the individual time trial in the morning and the late afternoon road race to grab the overall lead at the inaugural Heartland Memorial Cycling Weekend.

Grabinger, an accomplished triathlete from Spearfish, S.D., who has competed in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, averaged 28 mph in winning the 20-mile time trial by 29 seconds over Grandstay/Out N About Gear's Daniel Casper.

About three hours later, Grabinger was one of five riders who escaped the field in a breakaway that finished with a lead of more than eight minutes. But he wasn't content to just gain time - he outsprinted his breakaway companions to easily take the win.

"We all worked pretty hard together," Grabinger said of the winning break that earned him a handful of bonus seconds to add to his lead heading into Monday's 75-minute criterium. Casper is 36 seconds behind on general classification and Lincoln Plating-Lemond's Jon Randell is third, 1:05 back.

The story of the weekend continues to be the wind, which buffeted competitors all day Sunday, and unseasonable warm temperatures in the mid 90s. Wind gusts of more 40 miles an hour played havoc with the field and led to a treacherous eight mile trek in the opening half of the time trial.

Results

Men 1, 2, 3
 
1 Micheal Grabinger (Team Fresh Start)                 2.24.18
2 Daniel Casper (GrandStay/ Out N About Gear)             0.02
3 Jon Randell (Lincoln Plating Lemond)                        
4 Andrew Minier (Nature Valley/Penn Cycle)                0.04
5 Daniel Nemetchek (Team Manitoba/ Woodcock Cycle)        0.05
6 Joseph McWilliams (Team Kaos Cycling)                   8.39
7 Tim Farnham (Team Kaos Cycling)                             
8 Michael Munson (Lincoln Plating/Lemond)                 8.42
9 Chris Spence (Team Kaos Cycling)                        8.43
10 Kevin Burke (Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC)              8.44
11 Jarred Berger (Team Kaos Cycling)                          
12 Marc Walter (Lincoln Plating/lemond)                   8.47
13 Matt Williams (GrandStay/ Out N About Gear)                
14 Bowen Neuhofer (Team Manitoba/ Woodcock Cycle)         8.52
15 Troy Krause (Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC)              9.04
16 Jeremy Reimer (Lincoln Plating/Lemond)                 9.19
17 Dan Swanson (Nature Valley/Penn Cycle)                15.27
18 Ian Robertson (Team Kaos Cycling)                     16.33
19 Peter Morey (Bianchi Grand Performance)                    
20 Mike Schroden (GrandStay/ Out N About Gear)           21.18
21 Corey Whalen (Team Fresh Start)                            
22 Kent Throlson (Great Plains Cycling)                       
23 Dave Bucholz (Bianchi Grand Performance)              21.25
 
Women
 
1 Betsy Cordes (Team Giant/Black Hills Domestiques)    2.52.51
2 Linda Sone (Silver Cycling Hollywood Racing)                
3 Morgan Chaffin (Team Kaos)                             16.35
4 Barbara Harick (VeloBellaKona)                         17.48
5 Lindsay Argue (JR) (Alter Ego)                         31.42
6 Dawn McPherson (Defined Fitness Training, LLC)         42.12
7 Emily Farnham (Team Kaos)                              47.04
8 Angela Axmann (Team Fresh Start)                       47.41
 
Men 35+
 
1 James Berry (FreshStart)                             2.38.47
2 Jeff Luedtke (Husker Road Club)                         5.09
3 Craig Schmidt (Lincoln Plating-Lemond)                  7.01
4 Mark Mettler (Minnesota Cycling Team)                   7.06
5 Todd Nesvold (MCTTonkaCycle)                            7.07
6 James Adams (Cycling Club of Nebraska)                 36.06
 
Men 4
 
1 Devin Bethune (Elkhorn Valley Race Team)             2.43.21
2 Nathanael Elmer (Ciao Baby Cycling)                     0.13
3 Ian Gray (UNL Cycling)                                  0.21
4 Zach Rogers (Blue River Bicycle Club)                   0.35
5 Jason Doverspike (Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle)         7.24
6 Marshall Verbrugge (Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle)           
7 Jay Foss (Team Fresh Start)                             7.32
8 Don Raskey (GDI)                                        7.33
9 Al Provorse (UNL Cycling)                                   
10 Kurt Muehlebach (GP Velotek)                               
11 Tj Carmichael (Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC)                
12 Duane Blair (Elkhorn Valley Race Team)                 9.41
13 Daniel Peters (Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle)               
14 Bradley Sullivan (unattached)                         11.46
15 Chet Henry (UNL Cycling)                              14.29
16 James Buckley (unattached)                            21.34
17 Tom Nider (Ciao Baby Cycling)                         21.43
18 Charles Daniel (Ciao Baby Cycling)                    24.42
19 Scott Kiddoo (Ciao Baby Cycling)                           
20 John Hanson (Great Plains Cycling)                    26.17
21 Joseph Savoie (Team Kaos)                             27.18
22 Paul Mueller (ICCC)                                   43.26
 
Men 5
 
1 Cody Cleveland (Elkhorn Valley Cycling)              2.58.14
2 Michael Kosco (unatttached)                             0.05
3 Scott Blair (Elkhorn Valley Cycling)                    0.12
4 Rich Anderson (The Bike Way Racing)                     0.19
5 Gary Nebeker (TeamFIRE)                                13.47
6 Michael Tellier (unatttached)                          17.36
7 Aaron Gammel (TeamFire)                                20.34
 
Men 45+
 
1 Thomas Price (Trek KC/Local Cycling.com)             2.59.40
2 Tedd Jacobson (Peace Coffee Racing)                     7.34
3 John Vondracek (Ciao Baby Racing)                       7.55
4 Marian Pyszczek (Team Manitoba/ Woodcock Cycle)         8.19
5 Eric Piche (Bianchi/GrandPerformance)                   8.30
6 J. Ron Nelson (Ciao Baby Racing)                            
7 Robert Mairs (Bianchi/GrandPerformance)                 9.20
8 Bill Gottberg (Unattached)                                  
9 Bruce Harick (Bianchi/GrandPerformance)                22.14
10 Peter Zandbergen (Ciao Baby Racing)                   42.59
DNF Timm Jacobson (Peace Coffee Racing)                       
 
Men 55+
 
1 Ken Benusis (Black Hills Domestiques)                3.19.02
2 Jeff G Hart (Unattached)                                6.19
3 John Dean (Cycling Club of Nebraska)                   20.43