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Photo by Chris Lucke
Robert Sonora 2nd, Charlie Eckart 1st, Pete Lucke 3rd |
The Salida 45+ road race was comprised of six laps of a 5.7 mile circuit. Pete lined up as the sole mix1 rider which was okay as many of the other teams only had one rider each. The pace started off very briskly as a Colorado Bike Law rider took off from the gun and strung out the field for the first lap. This eliminated a lot of non-climbers and those having a bad day after racing the previous two days. Pete was able to make the selection each lap until two laps to go when two riders slipped away on the climb. The chase group was not able to close the gap by the last ascent of the climb, but Pete and a rider from Rally Sport attacked the group on the climb and broke away. A hard chase downhill was only able to bring Pete and the Rally Sport rider within a handful of seconds to the front two by the finish. Pete took the sprint for 3rd which capped off a good weekend after winning the criterium the previous day.
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