Rubicon ORBEA : Chaddock & Gunman podium @ Tour de Grove

Chaddock & Gunman podium @ Tour de Grove

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Posted by Ben Chaddock on 12 June 2010

Mid Town Alley Grand Prix -
By Rubicon-ORBEA rider, Ben Chaddock

Week two on the road is well underway. We are currently 30 miles from St. Paul Minneapolis after an early start this morning from St. Louis. Even this morning at six, the temperature was in the 80’s and humidity 90-100%! We all enjoyed our time in St. Louis thanks to many generous people, including most importantly our home stay Craig. He knew all the big hitters in town and showed us around which was great fun. The racing went pretty good too, with the team bringing home the dollars both days despite extremely challenging and unexpected weather conditions. Nature Valley starts on Wednesday with a short 6 mile prologue time trial on road bikes before an evening criterium really lights up the tour (pardon the pun). We are also heading to one of the local hospitals tomorrow so hopefully we get the chance to pass out some LIVESTRONG bands.

June 10th - After Wednesday night in Denver, we took off for Junction City on Thursday morning. After suffering some wind, we were unable to ride in the evening; but the biggest shocker of the day was definitely the temperature. We all knew we were in for an interesting weekend when we jumped out for a gas stop in Kansas only to be slapped across the face with extreme heat and humidity. SOUP!

June 11th - After another early morning drive on Friday, we arrived in St. Louis in the early afternoon and after a delicious sandwich at Mama Tosconos (Bill Clinton ate there once!), we took off for an opener ride along the Riverfront Trail. The route was definitely interesting as it followed some very old power plants with a healthy mix of garbage refuges and scrape metal yards. Despite the interesting scenery, we topped off the ride with a pause at the ARCH. It is HUGE! Made in the 60’s it stands many feet higher than I do!

June 12th - Saturday’s race featured some of St. Louis’ stereotypical summer weather; variable and harsh. It was a battle to just get your bibs on because you just sweat wherever you are, but the venue was great and some topnotch announcers were there to light up the atmosphere. Jelly Belly Pro Cycling also showed up with a full seven man squad and Kelly Benefit Strategies started two riders. Mike, rocking his white New Zealand U23 criterium champion edition of the Rubicon-Orbea kit helped trick other teams into believing that we only had three riders when we actually had four. The course was quite simple, 2.5 minute loop of four corners with 800 meter long main straights. Taylor Gunman jumped in a move with two Jelly Belly riders (which should have been the end of the race) but Jelly Belly kept the pace high to mitigate bridge attempts. The break achieved a maximum advantage of 30 seconds before they came back in the final 5 of 30 laps at which time Jelly Belly set up a massive train of riders on the front for their lead sprinter Brad Huff.

Taylor played it smart in the break and still had good legs when he came back into the peloton, jumping right in behind the Jelly Belly riders for 7th wheel with Roman, I and Mike following. Various riders attempted to steal the Jelly Belly wheels or disrupt the continuity of our train so elbows where up and the guns were out. In the final lap Roman moved me up alongside the Jelly Belly riders , Taylor slotted in behind me as we went by but got pushed off and had to resort to the gutter through corner through to get back up to my wheel. With Taylor tucked up behind, Roman went nuts out of corner three. With only four Jelly Belly riders left in front of Roman, Mike Friedman (12th at Philly last week) took off at 600 meters to go, at 500 meters Roman pulled off and the jets came on. At 200m I passed Friedman but Huff took his place and slotted in half a bike length a head at the line. Taylor threw it down for third and Roman cruised across in 12th. It wasn’t until after the race that we found out that Mike had flatted the last time through the start-finish so most of the sprint I was expecting him to come around. A great result! The majority of the race was held under an extreme rainstorm. The only thing missing was an alligator as it really did feel like that scene out of Jumanji. The rain dissipated the wearing effect of the heat despite the treacherous road conditions it created.

When changing after the race we met a guy named Roger, who turned out to be much more than a curious spectator and helped us through the rest of the weekend. Thanks so much Roger! Roger let us store our trailer in his shop and invited us over for a barbeque on Sunday night, which was very tasty!

* 2nd, Ben Chaddock
* 3rd Taylor Gunman

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