INTRO
Maybe GTC shouldn't have lapped the Smith Barney boys at last week's race, because they brought in North Carolina powerhouses, David Grice and Kent Williams to get revenge this week.
How good is Grice? At Masters Nats '03 Grice nearly had the fastest time of the day beating Bostick and nearly EVERYONE, he was only beaten by a couple seconds by Thurlow Rodgers.
TIME TRIAL - 8 miles
Fortunately Grice went back home after driving down from NC to destroy the 45+ field in the TT. Long breakaway and time trial specialist, Kent Williams, was on great form and took the second spot in the TT. Athens's own Smith Barney rider, Doc Moye took third, and GTC rider Dan Coy had to settle for a fourth place finish. Marshall Millard finished with a top-ten result.
CRITERIUM - 30 minutes + 3 laps
RBM/Velo Voodoo showed up in force and ran this race with textbook precision while Kent Williams (Smith Barney) and Dan Coy (GTC) neutralized each other repeatedly. Despite RBM's excellent teamwork a couple of fast finishing opportunist from out of town took top places. Coy finished in 7th place and Millard further down the results
ROAD RACE - 58 miles
The Smith Barney and RBM teams blocked the entire race while the 3-man break rode away. After 40 miles of soft-pedaling and with the break nearly two minutes up the road, Dan Coy (GTC) launched a flurry of attacks, but the peloton, especially the Smith Barney riders chased everytime with a vengence. Marshall Millard (GTC) took a couple of shots at escapes but was reeled in and eventually went off the back. Meanwhile the break had come back to within a minute.
The breakaway made a fatal mistake as the finish neared and the peloton closed in, they dropped the one RBM rider. The entire RBM team, lead by "the Godfather", Phil Bonfiglio, finally clocked-in and shut down the break in the final miles. It was a field sprint finish.
Smith Barney had their sights on winning the overall Omnium so the GC contenders were marked. RBM had no GC contenders but with their superior numbers (and help from GTC) they took the road race victory. Dan Coy finished in seventh place and Marshall came in later.
OMNIUM
Dan Coy finished fourth place overall and I believe Marshall Millard took eleventh place.
*Other GTC 45+ Masters: Gerard Remery is in Europe with family and Steve Simpson was not available to race this weekend. They were surely missed.
[Photos and stuff coming soon.]
Posted by dancoy at May 15, 2005 10:00 PM