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La Vuelta de Bisbee - NE
USA, April 25-27, 2008
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Stage 2 - April 26: Warren Time Trial, 8.3 mi
Ladino continues to dominate Bisbee
By Matt Hickman
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Gregorio Ladino Vega's bid to lead the 30th La Vuelta de Bisbee wire-to-wire is still in tact. But heading into the final stage, he has more company than might have been expected after his team's dominant showing in Friday's prologue put six Tecos riders in the top eight.
Wearing the yellow jersey, Ladino Vega turned around to look behind him just before he crossed the finish line. He saw a handful of riders, led by 21 year-old Kiel Reijnen finishing on his heels in the 79-mile Sulphur Springs Road Race Saturday morning.
That afternoon, Ladino Vega dropped another six seconds to Reijnen and 15 to Warren Time Trial winner Ryan Blicken of Landis-Trek to hold a 21-second lead heading into the final stage.
"A couple of guys attacked really hard," Gregorio Ladino Vega said through interpreter and teammate Fausto Esparza Muñoz. "The whole team is partners and that's really important. Thanks to the whole team, they really worked hard."
Esparza Muñoz sits in third overall heading to this morning's Tombstone Road Race. Though he's only 37 seconds behind his team-mate, he's helping to throw all his weight behind Ladino Vega.
"We had good speed the whole course so we tried to keep the goal - keep Gregorio in the lead. So we're happy he won," Fausto Esparza Muñoz said after the hard-fought Sulphur Springs race. "Gregorio is an especial climber so we're going to try to win king of the mountain."
Carlos Lopez of Mexico-based P&S Specialized is second overall, 21 seconds behind Vega and the leading American in the top division is Reijnen, who represents the Phoenix-based Waste Management Team.
Following Saturday's road race, Reijnen was hopeful the wall the Guadalajara-based Team Tecos had weakened its defenses.
"We had a good team-effort today; they did everything for me, I was real protected," Reijnen said. "They did a good job putting pressure on (Tecos) and with the winds today, it definitely took a lot out of (Tecos). They started to weaken."
Reijnen felt Saturday's road race format, nor the afternoon time trial played into Tecos' strength.
"They're all definitely climbers," he said. "The flat course, the hard wind - that's not their style. After that stage, they'll have a lot of guys who are pretty toast... We didn't expect Tecos to take as much control as they did. They didn't need to go to the front, but they did and that worked to our advantae. They've probably got four guys with nothing left in the tank. But, they did their job - they protected the yellow jersey."
Thirty-nine seconds back, Reijnen will have his work cut out for him, but he will have the backing of a large team. With about 10 riders apiece, Waste Management and Tecos are the best represented units in the men's pro field.
A third Tecos rider, Carlos Oyarzun Guinez sits in fifth place and Blicken, by virtue of his win in the time trial is in sixth, 57 seconds off the pace.
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In the women's pro race, Kelly McDonald of California-based Touchstone Climbing sped to victory in the Warren Time Trial to take the yellow jersey from Chloe Forsman of Tucson and Team Luna.
Heading into today's final stage, McDonald holds an 18 second lead over team-mate Maria Monica and a 46-second lead over Forsman. Saturday morning's Sulphur Spring Road Race was won by Marisa Russell of Arizona's Procon/FNBA team.
"The race didn't get going till about 10k, then it really went hard," Russell said. "The roads were nice and the enclosures were great."
The women's field finished in a tight bunch of 13 riders with Russell's 15-second sprint bonus proving to be the difference for her.
"(Russell) actually surprised me. I was at front with a couple of Touchstone riders who were up in the G.C.," Forsman said. "They put in a couple of attacks. I challenged a couple of those attacks. Marissa attacked with a little more than 200 meters to go. I was able to jump on her wheel, but I wasn't able to pass."
The Colorado-native Forsman began her racing career in mountain biking. That, coupled with her lack of team-mates, likely worked against her in Saturday's road race and time trial.
"The Touchstone girls have quite a bit of experience, but it's also a climbing race," Forsman said. "Today (having no teammates) probably made more of a difference today."
She said her mountain biking background has some advantages and disadvantages in a road race format. "It's made me more aggressive. Out here, it took 10k to really get going, but in mountain biking, it's 10 seconds and then, boom," Forsman said. "I really have to tell myself to be patient and drill that into my head."
In the men's masters race, Michael Hutchinson of California-based Morgan Stanley won the time trial to take a 26 second lead over teammate Michael Buckley of Nevada heading into today's final stage. Dave Swanson of Team Velo is third, 35 seconds behind and Al Sneft of Colavita NM is 36 seconds back.
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- Ryan Blicken (Landis-Trek) posted the best time of the afternoon, putting in a time of 14:21.0.
- Kelly McDonald (Touchstone Climbing) put in the best time during the afternoon time trial, finishing the course in 16:33.0.
- Dave Swanson (Summit Velo) , winner of the morning road race, put in a time of 29 seconds off the winning pace.
- The Warren TT course heads south to the US/Mexico border (the brown line in the distance is "The Fence". All downhill out, uphill on the return.
- Marisa Russell (Procon/FNB) , winner of the morning Road Race, finished 1:15.0 back in the afternoon Time Trial.
- It was a second place finish for Kiel Reijnen (Team WM) , just nine seconds off the pace.
- Nick Schreiber (Landis-Trek) glides along the Time Trial course, finishing 0:22.0 seconds back.
Results
Pro & senior men 1 Ryan W. Blicken (Landis-Trek) 14.21 2 Kiel Reijnen (Team WM) 0.09 3 Mark Aasmundstad (RideClean) 0.11 4 Brian Forbes (RideClean) 0.12 4 Ron Jensen (Team WM) 6 Carlos I Oyarzun Guinez (Tecos) 0.13 7 Fausto Esparza Muñoz (Tecos) 0.14 8 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Tecos) 0.15 9 Karl Bordine (Team 5 Star WVO) 0.20 10 Carlos Lopez (P&S-Specialized) 0.21 11 Nick Schreiber (Landis-Trek) 0.22 12 Joshua Liberles (Colavita NM) 0.23 12 Randy Corcoran (NMVS) 12 Lewis Elliot (Team WM) 15 Drew Miller (Landis-Trek) 0.24 16 Emiliano Jordan (Colavita NM) 0.28 17 Paul Ward (Unattached) 0.29 18 Luis F Macias (Tecos) 0.34 19 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Tecos) 0.38 19 George Ganoung (US Armed Forces) 21 Dan Vasichek (RideClean) 0.42 22 Omar Cervantes Diaz (Tecos) 0.46 23 Adam Livingston (Team 5 Star WVO) 0.48 24 Jon Parrish (Team WM) 0.50 25 Kamden Reedy (RideClean) 0.53 26 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Tecos) 1.02 27 Gilberto Porras (Rica Burguer) 1.04 28 Kyle Colavito (RideClean) 1.08 29 David Schulhofer (Team WM) 1.09 30 Mark Weideman (Simply Fit) 1.12 31 Juan Villela (Rica Burguer) 1.14 32 Scott Hubbard (KHSnm.com) 1.18 33 Mario Armend-A¡Riz (Rica Burguer) 1.20 34 Hugh Selby (Velo Del Norte) 1.28 35 Vincent Owens (Sierra Pacific) 1.29 36 Rodolfo Avila (P&S-Specialized) 1.30 37 Stephen Slabodnick (Landis-Trek) 1.35 38 David Salomon (P&S-Specialized) 1.44 39 Antonio Aldape (P&S-Specialized) 1.45 40 Juan P Magallanes (Tecos) 1.48 41 Carlos Hernandez (P&S-Specialized) 1.55 42 Martin Adamczyk (WDT Intl Cycl) 1.57 43 Brian Lemke (Landis-Trek) 1.59 43 Tim Doud (Team WM) 45 Mark Wald-Hopkins (Bike -n- Sport) 2.02 46 Kyle Ward (Team WM) 2.08 47 Chad Derosier (Team 5 Star WVO) 2.15 48 Luis Guiterrez Colunga (Tecos) 2.22 49 Anthony Steenbergen (Team H&R Block) 2.23 50 Woodruff Tj (MomentumEndur.) 2.38 51 Henry Swinty (Rica Burguer) 2.39 52 David Reid (Landis-Trek) 2.43 53 Antonio Velasquez (Rica Burguer) 2.52 54 Brian Cornelius (Team WM) 2.59 55 Jesus Zapata (Colavita NM) 3.29 56 Austin King (Team WM) 3.56 57 Stevie Cullinan (Team WM) 4.37 58 Sean Mazich (Team WM) 4.47 Master men 1 Michael Hutchinson (Morgan Stanley) 14.34 2 William White (Team WM) 0.19 3 Scott Biaggi (GST Racing) 0.22 4 Al Senft (Colavita NM) 0.23 5 Michael Buckley (Morgan Stanley) 0.27 6 Dave Swanson (Summit Velo) 0.29 7 Jesus Lamb (GST Racing) 0.41 8 Brian Palen (Colavita NM) 0.52 9 Peter Brown (GST Racing) 0.53 10 Matt Jordan (Team Kaladi) 0.56 11 John Simonson (GST Racing) 0.58 12 Jim Silverman (RideClean) 1.08 13 Scott Baker (GST Racing) 1.09 13 Shawn Daly (Southwest Hand) 15 Matthew Novakovich (Team AK Cannon.) 1.11 16 Kevin Kirkwood (Bicycle Haus) 1.14 16 Daniel Naef (Procon/FNBA) 18 Josh Rider (NMVS) 1.17 19 Jonathan Rath (NMVS) 1.18 20 Scott Conover (HLHAP) 1.20 21 John Sawasky (Colavita AZ) 1.21 21 Silvio Menezes (NMVS) 23 George Varhola (Summit Velo) 1.28 24 James Stull (Team Kaladi) 1.29 25 Jon Salskov (Bicycle Haus) 1.30 26 Paul Kealey (Summit Velo) 1.33 27 Kurt Kroese (GST Racing) 1.37 28 Andre Mcnulty (HLHAP) 1.48 29 Todd Mion (RideClean) 1.49 30 Bryan Antol (RideClean) 1.50 31 Donald Williams (Bicycle Haus) 1.52 32 Lew Perna (SchwabCyclesRT) 1.55 32 Tod Smith (Team WM) 34 David Gay (SanTan Racing) 1.57 35 Chris Poole (Team WM) 2.02 36 Lane Sanders (Focus Cyclery) 2.03 37 Bryan Schlegel (Aggress) 2.05 38 Jay Guyot (GST Racing) 2.06 38 Richard Hutton (Summit Velo) 40 Richard Biocca (Desert Whl Club) 2.09 41 Thane Wright (Pactimo) 2.10 41 Thomas Kachelmeyer (Team Giant-MI) 41 Jim Peot (Unattached) 44 Dermot Kealey (Summit Velo) 2.11 45 Scott Wall (Procon/FNBA) 2.18 45 Frank Barnes (Summit Velo) 47 Justin Martin (Colavita AZ) 2.23 48 Lindsay Crawford (G S Strada) 2.24 49 Greg Mcglinn (Colavita AZ) 2.26 50 Rick Cimaglia (RideClean) 2.27 51 Elliot Skultin (PAA) 2.30 52 Andy Duvall (Summit Velo) 2.32 53 Tony Routley (Team Whistler) 2.33 54 Alex Koss (Summit Velo) 2.34 55 Jon Black (GST Racing) 2.35 56 Adrian Schumacher (Presteza) 2.36 57 Justin Beope (Team 5 Star WVO) 2.41 58 Greg Howard (Summit Velo) 2.44 59 Peter Chagaris (Eclipse Racing) 2.46 60 Doug Stewart (Presteza) 2.52 60 Kurt Garbe (Unattached) 62 David Green (SanTan Racing) 2.54 63 Edward A. Cartwright (Team Patimo) 2.55 63 Matthias Feurer (Team Rhino) 65 Eric Nelson (Team RPM) 3.00 66 Donald Guess (SanTan Racing) 3.03 67 Sean Patrick (Colavita AZ) 3.13 67 Craig Peters (Colavita AZ) 69 Eddie Urcadez (Presteza) 3.14 70 Kiral Thompson (Summit Velo) 3.15 71 Scott Arnold (Bicycle Haus) 3.16 72 Bill Mcdorman (Team One Rcg) 3.17 73 Rod Michael (SportsSystMtnTC) 3.23 74 William Fleming (Team Kaladi) 3.31 75 Nels Guloien (Natural Earth) 3.44 76 Glenn Harris (Thunder Mtn Cyc) 4.17 77 Kevin Kraus (Desert Whl Club) 4.33 78 Joshua Powers (Colavita AZ) 4.48 79 Joe Struttmann (SanTan Racing) 4.51 80 Martin Liddell (SanTan Racing) 5.23 81 Alan Fischer (AZ Cycling) 6.06 82 Travis Waldron (Bicycle Haus) 6.17 83 Norman J. Beasley (Thunder Mtn Cyc) 7.19 DNF Eric Taylor (Kinley'sCycling) Senior & master women 1 Kelly Mcdonald (Touchstone Clmg) 16.33 2 Heather Sborz (Bicycle Haus) 0.11 3 Olivia Dillon (Touchstone Clmg) 0.22 4 Maria Monica (Touchstone Clmg) 0.37 5 Chloe Forsman (LUNA) 1.07 5 Sarah S. Swanson (Summit Velo) 7 Marisa Russell (Procon/FNBA) 1.15 8 Colleen Whealdon-Haught (Summit Velo) 1.38 9 Kristen Hetzel (Summit Velo) 1.40 10 Maggie Williams (Bicycle Haus) 1.46 11 Chloe Black (Landis-Trek) 1.47 12 Spring Clegg (Broadway Bikes) 1.48 13 Heidi Clayton (Bicycle Haus) 1.51 14 Mary Downing (Team Kenda Tire) 1.55 15 Sabrina Savage (Landis-Trek) 2.09 16 Katherine Farago (Tribe Racing) 2.25 17 Deenie Robertson (Pipsport) 2.28 17 Chrissy Saraceni (Verducci) 19 Tiffanie Novakovich (Team AK Cannon.) 2.42 20 Meredith Peterson (Summit Velo) 2.56 21 Gina Taylor (Kinley'sCycling) 3.18 22 Shannon Jones (Summit Velo) 3.56 23 Tamara Bernstein (HLHAP) 4.00 24 Carolyn Carbone (Summit Velo) 5.35 General Classification after Stage 2 Pro & senior men 1 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Tecos) 3.21.44 2 Carlos Lopez (P&S-Specialized) 0.21 3 Fausto Esparza Muñoz (Tecos) 0.37 4 Kiel Reijnen (Team WM) 0.39 5 Carlos I Oyarzun Guinez (Tecos) 0.44 6 Ryan W. Blicken (Landis-Trek) 0.57 7 Mark Aasmundstad (RideClean) 1.00 8 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Tecos) 1.09 9 Drew Miller (Landis-Trek) 1.15 10 Ron Jensen (Team WM) 1.21 11 Joshua Liberles (Colavita NM) 1.24 12 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Tecos) 1.29 13 Lewis Elliot (Team WM) 1.30 14 Omar Cervantes Diaz (Tecos) 1.33 15 Brian Forbes (RideClean) 1.40 16 Karl Bordine (Team 5 Star WVO) 17 Adam Livingston (Team 5 Star WVO) 1.42 18 George Ganoung (US Armed Forces) 1.50 19 Dan Vasichek (RideClean) 1.53 20 Emiliano Jordan (Colavita NM) 1.56 21 Kyle Colavito (RideClean) 2.01 22 Paul Ward (Unattached) 2.09 23 Kamden Reedy (RideClean) 2.24 24 Nick Schreiber (Landis-Trek) 2.35 25 Luis F Macias (Tecos) 2.43 26 Mario Armend-A¡Riz (Rica Burguer) 2.47 27 Antonio Aldape (P&S-Specialized) 2.50 28 Randy Corcoran (NMVS) 2.56 29 Juan Villela (Rica Burguer) 2.58 30 Stephen Slabodnick (Landis-Trek) 3.08 31 Rodolfo Avila (P&S-Specialized) 3.13 32 Vincent Owens (Sierra Pacific) 3.15 33 David Schulhofer (Team WM) 34 Gilberto Porras (Rica Burguer) 3.22 35 David Salomon (P&S-Specialized) 3.31 36 Carlos Hernandez (P&S-Specialized) 3.52 37 Juan P Magallanes (Tecos) 3.59 38 Jon Parrish (Team WM) 4.00 39 Hugh Selby (Velo Del Norte) 4.17 40 Martin Adamczyk (WDT Intl Cycl) 4.23 41 Woodruff Tj (MomentumEndur.) 4.29 42 Scott Hubbard (KHSnm.com) 4.46 43 Brian Lemke (Landis-Trek) 5.15 44 Mark Wald-Hopkins (Bike -n- Sport) 5.25 45 Mark Weideman (Simply Fit) 6.05 46 Luis Guiterrez Colunga (Tecos) 6.09 47 Antonio Velasquez (Rica Burguer) 6.10 48 Sean Mazich (Team WM) 7.12 49 Anthony Steenbergen (Team H&R Block) 7.16 50 Kyle Ward (Team WM) 7.49 51 Jesus Zapata (Colavita NM) 8.40 52 Henry Swinty (Rica Burguer) 10.24 53 Chad Derosier (Team 5 Star WVO) 12.23 54 Stevie Cullinan (Team WM) 13.19 55 David Reid (Landis-Trek) 13.20 56 Austin King (Team WM) 14.28 57 Tim Doud (Team WM) 15.52 58 Brian Cornelius (Team WM) 39.32 Master men 1 Michael Hutchinson (Morgan Stanley) 2.20.17 2 Michael Buckley (Morgan Stanley) 0.26 3 Dave Swanson (Summit Velo) 0.35 4 Al Senft (Colavita NM) 0.36 5 William White (Team WM) 1.11 6 Matt Jordan (Team Kaladi) 1.30 7 Brian Palen (Colavita NM) 1.31 8 Scott Biaggi (GST Racing) 9 Peter Brown (GST Racing) 1.42 10 Scott Conover (HLHAP) 1.47 11 Matthew Novakovich (Team AK Cannon.) 1.48 12 Daniel Naef (Procon/FNBA) 2.17 13 Jon Salskov (Bicycle Haus) 14 Kevin Kirkwood (Bicycle Haus) 2.23 15 John Sawasky (Colavita AZ) 2.26 16 Jesus Lamb (GST Racing) 2.30 17 Jonathan Rath (NMVS) 18 Josh Rider (NMVS) 2.32 19 Shawn Daly (Southwest Hand) 2.43 20 John Simonson (GST Racing) 2.44 21 Jim Silverman (RideClean) 3.14 22 Silvio Menezes (NMVS) 3.20 23 Bryan Antol (RideClean) 3.21 24 Thane Wright (Pactimo) 3.24 25 Andre Mcnulty (HLHAP) 3.43 26 Lane Sanders (Focus Cyclery) 3.44 27 Donald Williams (Bicycle Haus) 3.45 28 Frank Barnes (Summit Velo) 3.57 29 Dermot Kealey (Summit Velo) 4.07 30 Chris Poole (Team WM) 4.10 31 Scott Wall (Procon/FNBA) 4.18 32 Bryan Schlegel (Aggress) 4.22 33 Lew Perna (SchwabCyclesRT) 4.26 34 Justin Martin (Colavita AZ) 4.33 35 Paul Kealey (Summit Velo) 4.40 36 Tod Smith (Team WM) 37 Lindsay Crawford (G S Strada) 4.41 38 Thomas Kachelmeyer (Team Giant-MI) 4.45 39 Jon Black (GST Racing) 4.46 40 Peter Chagaris (Eclipse Racing) 4.58 41 Tony Routley (Team Whistler) 5.02 42 Richard Biocca (Desert Whl Club) 5.04 43 Richard Hutton (Summit Velo) 5.14 44 David Gay (SanTan Racing) 5.17 45 Edward A. Cartwright (Team Patimo) 5.21 46 Matthias Feurer (Team Rhino) 5.23 47 Adrian Schumacher (Presteza) 5.37 48 Kurt Garbe (Unattached) 5.38 49 Rod Michael (SportsSystMtnTC) 5.52 50 Alex Koss (Summit Velo) 6.00 51 Justin Beope (Team 5 Star WVO) 6.06 52 Nels Guloien (Natural Earth) 6.07 53 Eddie Urcadez (Presteza) 6.10 54 Donald Guess (SanTan Racing) 6.15 55 Andy Duvall (Summit Velo) 6.23 56 Scott Arnold (Bicycle Haus) 6.31 57 Eric Nelson (Team RPM) 6.35 58 Todd Mion (RideClean) 6.42 59 Bill Mcdorman (Team One Rcg) 60 James Stull (Team Kaladi) 6.50 61 Jay Guyot (GST Racing) 6.51 62 Kiral Thompson (Summit Velo) 7.05 63 Elliot Skultin (PAA) 7.07 64 Joshua Powers (Colavita AZ) 7.14 65 Travis Waldron (Bicycle Haus) 7.30 66 Doug Stewart (Presteza) 7.46 67 Greg Howard (Summit Velo) 7.52 68 Greg Mcglinn (Colavita AZ) 8.24 69 Jim Peot (Unattached) 9.19 70 Craig Peters (Colavita AZ) 9.23 71 Kevin Kraus (Desert Whl Club) 10.43 72 Rick Cimaglia (RideClean) 11.01 73 Scott Baker (GST Racing) 11.30 74 Kurt Kroese (GST Racing) 11.59 75 Joe Struttmann (SanTan Racing) 12.01 76 David Green (SanTan Racing) 13.01 77 William Fleming (Team Kaladi) 13.41 78 George Varhola (Summit Velo) 14.04 79 Sean Patrick (Colavita AZ) 20.38 80 Glenn Harris (Thunder Mtn Cyc) 27.57 81 Martin Liddell (SanTan Racing) 33.05 82 Alan Fischer (AZ Cycling) 45.56 83 Norman J. Beasley (Thunder Mtn Cyc) 59.27 Senior & master women 1 Kelly Mcdonald (Touchstone Clmg) 2.56.48 2 Maria Monica (Touchstone Clmg) 0.18 3 Chloe Forsman (LUNA) 0.46 4 Heather Sborz (Bicycle Haus) 1.19 5 Olivia Dillon (Touchstone Clmg) 6 Sarah S. Swanson (Summit Velo) 2.07 7 Marisa Russell (Procon/FNBA) 2.23 8 Colleen Whealdon-Haught (Summit Velo) 2.37 9 Kristen Hetzel (Summit Velo) 2.58 10 Mary Downing (Team Kenda Tire) 3.31 11 Chloe Black (Landis-Trek) 3.32 12 Sabrina Savage (Landis-Trek) 3.34 13 Chrissy Saraceni (Verducci) 3.42 14 Spring Clegg (Broadway Bikes) 4.17 15 Heidi Clayton (Bicycle Haus) 4.25 16 Katherine Farago (Tribe Racing) 4.44 17 Tiffanie Novakovich (Team AK Cannon.) 6.01 18 Gina Taylor (Kinley'sCycling) 6.17 19 Tamara Bernstein (HLHAP) 6.28 20 Maggie Williams (Bicycle Haus) 6.36 21 Deenie Robertson (Pipsport) 7.14 22 Meredith Peterson (Summit Velo) 8.53 23 Carolyn Carbone (Summit Velo) 8.57 24 Shannon Jones (Summit Velo) 10.34
