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Moab Rocks: Stage 2

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Stage 2 Photo Gallery

Lea Davison of the Luna Team-3rd on Stage 2. Photo by: Jean McAllister

Geoff Kabush wins Stage 2 of Moab Rocks. Photo by: John Gibson

The leaders of the Mens race in a group in the early stages of Stage 2. Photo by: Jean McAllister

Jena Greaser-1st on Stage 2. Photo by: Jean McAllister

Sparky Moir Sears hugs the rocks on stage 2. Photo by: Jean McAllister

Lea Davison (3rd on Stage 2) leads teammate Maghalie Rochette (2nd on Stage 2) Photo by: John Gibson

Rotem Ishay-6th Stage 2. Photo by: John Gibson

 

Breck Epic Stage 2

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Todd Wells Bounces Back For A Win in Stage Two as Amy Krahenbuhl Claims Her Second Stage

The roll-out on the road was quick and the first climb broke up the race quickly. The Colorado Trail stage of the Breck Epic is a big one in terms of both mileage and pue Colorado mountain biking. Photo by Liam Dorian

The roll-out on the road was quick and the first climb broke up the race quickly. The Colorado Trail stage of the Breck Epic is a big one in terms of both mileage and pue Colorado mountain biking. Photo by Liam Dorian

Barry Wicks came in tenth today and sits in 7th overall, just over 28-minutes back. Photo by Liam Dorian

Barry Wicks came in tenth today and sits in 7th overall, just over 28-minutes back. Photo by Liam Dorian

Eva Poidevin is in fourth place in the women’s open 3-Day race, just six minutes off podium with one stage to go. Photo by Liam Dorian

Eva Poidevin is in fourth place in the women’s open 3-Day race, just six minutes off podium with one stage to go. Photo by Liam Dorian

Drew Free (KUHL-Pivot Cycles) moved up overall on stage two into eighth place after riding to a ninth place finish. Photo by Liam Dorian

Drew Free (KUHL-Pivot Cycles) moved up overall on stage two into eighth place after riding to a ninth place finish. Photo by Liam Dorian

Riders utilize stretches of iconic mining roads, linking pristine sections of Breckenridge single track. Photo by Liam Dorian

Riders utilize stretches of iconic mining roads, linking pristine sections of Breckenridge single track. Photo by Liam Dorian

Photo by Liam Dorian

Photo by Liam Dorian

The voice of the Breck Epic, Larry Grossman, welcomes Jason Turner to Aid 1. With most of the steep pitches out of the way, riders were ready to get on to the Colorado Trail. Photo by Liam Dorian

The voice of the Breck Epic, Larry Grossman, welcomes Jason Turner to Aid 1. With most of the steep pitches out of the way, riders were ready to get on to the Colorado Trail. Photo by Liam Dorian

Natalia Ptas and Rachel (Scott) Beisel of the Naked Women’s Team took another win on stage two bringing their lead to up to 24-minutes. Photo by Liam Dorian

Natalia Ptas and Rachel (Scott) Beisel of the Naked Women’s Team took another win on stage two bringing their lead to up to 24-minutes. Photo by Liam Dorian

Photo by Liam Dorian

Photo by Liam Dorian

Riders crisscrossed dirt roads on the run-in to the finish of stage two, with course designers opting for singletrack over, sometimes more direct, fire-road. Always. Photo by Liam Dorian

Riders crisscrossed dirt roads on the run-in to the finish of stage two, with course designers opting for singletrack over, sometimes more direct, fire-road. Always. Photo by Liam Dorian

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Singletrack 6 – Stage 2 – Fernie, BC

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Looney and Weissenbacher Take Stage 2 with Looney Taking Over GC Lead

Written by: Marlee Dixon

Stage 2 of Singletrack 6 takes place at Fernie Alpine Resort and Mount Fernie Provincial Park. It’s a very different racecourse than stage 1 and includes more sustained climbing and descending. At 8am all riders were off, racing together up a mountain access road. The extended uphill spread racers out before descending into the forest on Snakebite; a dark, forested, fun and fast downhill trail.

location: Fernie, B.C., Canada

location: Fernie, B.C., Canada

Next racers head up the rail trail and then descend the multi-directional, fast Lazy Lizard trail. Then its on to the biggest climb; Project 9 access trail, that includes several steep grunts to really max out the heart rate.

The timed descent of the day drops down the Project 9 trail which is sure to have left racers grinning as they fly down through the trees, over drops and through berms on an epic descent. Back on Lazy Lizard, racers cruise downhill again and connect via a new trail to climb up Stove trail. From there it’s another fun descent on Dem Bones before racers head back up the resort in one final long climb.

location: Fernie, B.C., Canada

location: Fernie, B.C., Canada

The course finishes descending on the resort; first on a rooty, semi-technical trail with some slick bridges then heading on a rip-roaring flowy berm trail to the finish. Today’s course included a lot of steep uphill and downhill sections in the 21 mile course with 5000′ of elevation gain. It was a good test of rider’s fitness with sustained climbs, as well as bike handling skills, with lots of fast descents including roots, bridges, drops and technical aspects.

Rotem Ishay/3rd Place Stage 2/1st Place Overall / Singletrack 6 Open Solo Men

Rotem Ishay/3rd Place Stage 2/1st Place Overall / Singletrack 6 Open Solo Men

For both the pro men and women there were new stage winners today. For the men, Rotem Ishay (Jamis Bikes) flatted and ended up in 3rd (2:00:51) only seconds behind teammates Manuel Weissenbacher (Craft-Rocky Mountain Factory Team) in 1st (2:00:34) and Andreas Hartmann in 2nd (2:00:44). Ishay keeps the overall lead with Weissenbacher in 2nd and Hartmann in 3rd.

For the pro women Sonya Looney (Freakshow/Defeet) charged ahead from the start and maintained her 1st place position for the stage and took over the lead in the GC competition. She won the stage in 2:19:50 followed by Kate Aardal (Ridleys Cycling) in a time of 2:24:29.

Sonya Looney

Sonya Looney

Following the first descent down Snakebite, Aardal moved up from 4th to 2nd and proceeded to steadily break away from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th position. Jayne Rossworn following closely behind Aardal, moved into 3rd on the rail trail climb and finished in 3rd in a time of 2:27:35. Looney moves up to first in the overall with Aardal in 2nd and Marlee Dixon (Pivot Cycles/DNA Cycling) jumping into 3rd.

Stage 3 of Singletrack 6 moves to Cranbrook for a totally different type of terrain; a smooth, undulating 26 mile course with 3900′ of elevation gain and more frequent smaller climbs and descents. Check out tomorrow’s race report to see if the different style of riding affects the racers standings.

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Breck Epic Stage 2

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Local Lady Marlee Dixon Takes Colorado Trail Stage While Belgian Frans Claes Wins it for the Men

Written by Marlee Dixon

And the riding gets more and more fun!!!   Day 2 of the Breck Epic is a tough day with some monster climbs, but the pain is well-worth it for the awesome descents.  Day two starts to give racers a feel for the great riding in Summit County. Today racers started at 8:30 again from the middle of Breckenridge. It’s a short mile behind the pace car to the first climb up Gold Run Road. This climb is a grunt and helps to disperse riders before getting onto the Fall Classic Single track trail.

Then it’s a quick dirt road descent to the next big climb- Heinous Hill. Aptly named – this is a hard mile long climb with some loose rocky areas that can easily push racers off their bikes. Once done with Heinous it’s a screaming descent on Summit Gulch Rd.

Barry Wicks attacks the Colorado trail DH to make up some time he lost on stage 1. Photo by Liam Doran

Barry Wicks attacks the Colorado trail DH to make up some time he lost on stage 1. Photo by Liam Doran

 

This road has mainly one line down it and carnage has been known to happen here. Next we got on the Galena Ditch trail, a flume trail that goes on for a few miles, mostly flat with some rolling sections. A new extension was built called the Galena Ditch Extension, and luckily we were some of the first riders on this new trail.

Once out of Galena Ditch, racers arrive at the 1st aid station and head up the road and get on the middle fork of the Colorado trail. This is a really fun section of the Colorado Trail with some short techy sections, climbing, and a fun descent at the end. Then it’s on to the Westridge climb – a ~4 mile climb up the Colorado Trail. This is one of my favorite trails in Summit County because of the awesome descent down Westridge and Red Trail. Then it’s a climb up for about a mile on the Hay Trail and down Blair Witch before racers meet aid 2.

At mile 30, this is the last aid station and it’s a few miles road ride until racers head up again on Discovery Ridge Trail. Once down Discovery Ridge it’s another dirt non-motorized road climb up Gold Run Road. This is where you start to see racers bonking as this road goes on for a few miles. Once at the top it’s on to more singletrack on the Western Sky Trail then it’s down Prospect Hill road to Side door trail, Minnie mine trail and X10U8 to the finish.

Today was 37.3 Miles and 4920’ vertical. With only a few rain drops later in the race, today’s weather and trail conditions were perfect.

Alban Lakata and Jeremiah Bishop wind through a ribbon of the Colorado Trail. Photo by - Liam Doran

Alban Lakata and Jeremiah Bishop wind through a ribbon of the Colorado Trail. Photo by – Liam Doran

For the Epic 3 day racers Pro Men Kristian Hynek (Topeak-Ergon) won the stage in 2:41:29 (total 2 day time of: 5:16:35, 2nd was Alban Lakata (Topeak-Ergon) in 2:41:58 (5:17:04) and in 3rd was Jeremiah Bishop (Topeak-Ergon) at 2:42:01 (5:24:39). For the Pro women, Sally Bigham (Topeak-Ergon) had a much better day today than yesterday (no mechanicals) and finished in a record 3:14:23 (total 2 day time of 6:35:44), followed by Mayalen Noriega (Primaflor/Orbea) with a time of 4:07:15 (8:00:16) and in third was Kata Skaggs with a time of 4:43:52 (8:58:56).

For the Epic, 6 day race, for the pro men Frans Claes won in a time of 2:48:21 (total 2 day time: 5:31:39) followed by Ben Swanepoel (Squirt Lube) in 2nd at 2:54:16 (5:40:14) and Barry Wicks in 3rd with a time of 2:57:12 (5:45:30).

Serena Gordon carried on through a rough stage suffering a couple flat tires and finishes 4th. Photo by Liam Doran

Serena Gordon carried on through a rough stage suffering a couple flat tires and finishes 4th. Photo by Liam Doran

For the pro women it was an exciting race! For the first 2/3rds of the race, Evelyn Dong (Sho-Air/Cannondale), Serena Gordon (Liv/Giant), Kelly Boniface (Moots), and Marlee Dixon (Pivot/Epic Brewing) stayed within sight of each other.

Serena was in the lead for most of the time with Kelly and Evelyn right behind her switching back and forth. Dixon hung in 2nd starting up Heinous Hill then unclipped a few times and both Kelly and Evelyn passed her.

Dixon stayed behind them rolling into aid 1 in 4th only a few seconds behind. On the road to middle fork and on the middle fork of the Colorado Trail, Evelyn, Kelly and Serena stayed close together and Dixon was a few seconds back.

Once on Westridge, Dixon passed Kelly on the climb and stayed right behind Serena and Evelyn on the descent.

Serena flatted on the Westridge descent and Dixon followed Evelyn for the rest of the downhill. Climbing up Hay trail Dixon passed Evelyn but ended up switching back and forth a few times and rallying hard together for the rest of the race.

At the finish, Dixon managed to get  ahead and won in a time of 3:25:07 (Total 2 day time of: 6:51:16), followed right behind by Evelyn Dong at 3:25:15 (6:40:33), Kelly Boniface came in 3rd in 3:29:56 (6:47:29) followed closing by Serena Gordon in 3:30:29 (6:47:21).

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