It's been Tour of Utah time again around here! It went off a week earlier than last year and with much better weather: sunny, hot and not too windy this time around. H wasn't able to get to the first three events, so I'll synopsize them for you all together; we both went to Stages 3, 4 and 5 and I'll put up photos from those in subsequent posts.
Prologue (8/9/11): the short-but-steep Prologue was held in Park City's Utah Olympic Park, a 2 km (1.25 mile) ride up 615 feet with some 7% grade stretches. One of the Colombians from Team Gobernacion de Antioquia-Indeportes Antio won: Sergio Henao, with a time of 4'05". Paco Mancebo came in second (4'07"); Oscar Sevilla, another Colombian third (4'10"). The Colombian team is going to be a factor in this Tour: they are young, tiny and used to racing at altitude. Levi Leipheimer came in sixth.
Stage 1 (8/10/11): the Stage 1 road race took place up at Ogden, a 187 km (116 mi.) ride consisting of a 38.5 mile loop so that the riders have to climb the North Ogden Pass Road three times (nearly 3,000 feet of climbing each time), then circling around through Eden Valley and Pineview Reservoir before returning to Ogden through Ogden Canyon. American Jesse Anthony won the stage with a time of 4.39'29" and Henao and Sevilla were right behind him, as was Levi and Radio Shack teammate Janic Brajkovic; Henao kept the yellow jersey.
Stage 2 (8/11/11): Stage 2 started in Lehi, went south down the west side of Utah Lake, then curved around north to finish in Provo, 161 km (100 mi.) - much, much flatter than Stage 1. Kiwi Jack Bauer won the stage with time of 3.33'43" and Henao kept the yellow jersey, although Levi scootched his way up to third in the general classification.
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