Guanella Pass Hill Climb June 17, 2012

Chris Leggere and Steve Matous racing 55+.



Dan Grygier 3rd, Chris Leggere 1st, Steve Matous 2nd
photo by Drew Clark

 Rarely does a race plan go perfectly but that's just what happened Sunday. Our plan was to go hard on the 1st hills out of town to force a split in the field, draft a little on the flats and hammer it home in the last 4 miles. Steve wasted no time as he went to the front as soon as the neutral car pulled off and hit the hills out of town at full speed and forced the split in the 1st 2 minutes. We had Workman, Grygier and Cooper with us on the front and kept the pace high. Cooper could only hang for about 5 minutes and it was down to the same riders  from the Sunshine Hill Climb last week. Through the flats we followed  Grygier's wheels and when the steep sections came up Steve started putting in some strong surges to test the others to see how they recovered from the TT Saturday. With about 4 miles to go Steve and Chris went into team time trial mode and took turns at the front increasing the pace. 1st to go was Grygier. At about 3k we dropped Workman and then rode into the finish with Steve crossing the line right behind me. Our strategy worked perfectly as Mix1 took 1 & 2 for the day!