| Shoot Out 5/31/08 | |
 Brian Cornelius (Waste Management) won the sprint hill in a gargantuan battle in the midst of a torrid Shoot Out that averaged 24.4 mph to Valencia and Old Nogales Highway.
Gord Frazer (Carmichael, riding for Canada today) won the final sprint followed by the active Cornelius and Frank Barnes, who had won the mailboxes several miles and a few hills earlier.
The whole thing started with some indolent breaks, insouciantly recaptured by a somnambulent pelaton seemingly deterred by a rising hot reservation sun.
A break of five formed up at last however, composed of three Carmichael skirmishers (Jake Rubell, Kyle Colavita, and a third), plus Dan Naef (Pro Con), and possibly Mike Middleton (Rhino). They didn't sprint at the bridge, but Colavita took it on a pull through.
After the bridge several large breaks formed but nothing stuck, with Brian Glick playing around off the front after the mail boxes, tempting challengers to take his jersey from his hill victory of last week.
With a friendly tail wind starting atop Duvall Mine Road, a group of 20 rotators formed to really turn on the burners of this Northern Sonora roll-a-rama!
Even despite the super-class speeds, the hard butted ones attacked off the front at the final rise to the sprint led by Gord and Tim Carolan (Landis), their efforts were for naught however as the group (of about 8) was swallowed up like an oyster on the half shell, con limon y sal y chile, about a half mile from the finish. A hard charging Canadian won out anyway, stringing the field out behind him like a cheap purple plastic slinky. Hijuela!
This week's commentary was written by Leo Masursky |
