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National News: TransRockies 2007 - Stage 7 Report
Published: Aug 18, 2007 - 11:09 PM
Sessford and Clark (Midnight Sun) finished 5th on Stage 7 and 10th overall, Slater and Parker (Klondike Cog Cursers) finished 17th and 26th overall
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Team United Cycles Wins Overall
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Final TR07 Open Men's podium (l-r): Federico Ramirez (Crc)/Ivan Amador (Crc) La Ruta 2nd, Tim Heemskerk (Can)/Roddi Lega (Can) United Cycle Team 1st, Matt Green (Can)/Matt Hadley (Can) Rocky Mountain/EAsports 3rd.
After a Day 6 which will go down as one of the most brutal days in TransRockies history, the riders were treated to a quick 48km Stage 7 run into beautiful Fernie to the finish line celebrations with the friends and family who were waiting there for them. The weather held in and the 2007 TransRockies Challenge will go down as having the finest weather since the race began.
The short and fast last stage of the TransRockies saw the Team United Cycles duo of Roddi Lega and Tim Heemskerk confirm their dominant overall victory with their sixth stage win in seven days. They gapped the second and third placed Team La Ruta/Pizza Hut and Team Rocky Mountain EA Sports in the last singletrack section and rolled across the line with a narrow 18-second victory on the day and a 26-minute win in the overall standings.
A select group of teams formed during the first 20km of the race when the leading racers averaged close to 35km/h on a series of rolling forestry roads and doubletrack trails. With most of the technical singletrack packed into the last half of the stage, riders worked together knowing that the race would be won later.
As they had throughout the race, the team from Edmonton, Alberta was able to use their superior technical skills to gap the Costa Ricans on the rocky, rooty trails which make the TransRockies Challenge unique among the grand epic races in the world. With a gap in place, the question became could the young guns from Rocky Mountain EA Sports use their prowess in the singletrack to overcome the advantage that Team La Ruta/Pizza Hut had opened earlier in the race. In the end they came up a few seconds short and the podium on day 7 exactly mirrored the final overall standing with Team United Cycles in 1st, La Ruta in 2nd and Rocky Mountain EA Sports rounding out the top 3.
... once again, go to Pedal Magazine for the full results and rest of the story
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Team United Cycles Wins Overall
<img src=http://www.pedalmag.com/images/pedal/46c76e74035b9tr%20day%207%20the%20overall%20podiu2.jpg>
Final TR07 Open Men's podium (l-r): Federico Ramirez (Crc)/Ivan Amador (Crc) La Ruta 2nd, Tim Heemskerk (Can)/Roddi Lega (Can) United Cycle Team 1st, Matt Green (Can)/Matt Hadley (Can) Rocky Mountain/EAsports 3rd.
After a Day 6 which will go down as one of the most brutal days in TransRockies history, the riders were treated to a quick 48km Stage 7 run into beautiful Fernie to the finish line celebrations with the friends and family who were waiting there for them. The weather held in and the 2007 TransRockies Challenge will go down as having the finest weather since the race began.
The short and fast last stage of the TransRockies saw the Team United Cycles duo of Roddi Lega and Tim Heemskerk confirm their dominant overall victory with their sixth stage win in seven days. They gapped the second and third placed Team La Ruta/Pizza Hut and Team Rocky Mountain EA Sports in the last singletrack section and rolled across the line with a narrow 18-second victory on the day and a 26-minute win in the overall standings.
A select group of teams formed during the first 20km of the race when the leading racers averaged close to 35km/h on a series of rolling forestry roads and doubletrack trails. With most of the technical singletrack packed into the last half of the stage, riders worked together knowing that the race would be won later.
As they had throughout the race, the team from Edmonton, Alberta was able to use their superior technical skills to gap the Costa Ricans on the rocky, rooty trails which make the TransRockies Challenge unique among the grand epic races in the world. With a gap in place, the question became could the young guns from Rocky Mountain EA Sports use their prowess in the singletrack to overcome the advantage that Team La Ruta/Pizza Hut had opened earlier in the race. In the end they came up a few seconds short and the podium on day 7 exactly mirrored the final overall standing with Team United Cycles in 1st, La Ruta in 2nd and Rocky Mountain EA Sports rounding out the top 3.
... once again, go to Pedal Magazine for the full results and rest of the story
