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Following the peloton
Mountain sets up win in PREIT/Logan Valley Mall Johnstown-Altoona stage
By Chris O’Brien
For the International Tour de Toona
The PREIT/Logan Valley Mall Johnstown-Altoona road race of the International Tour de Toona started a little more eventfully than Bruno Langlois of Jittery Joes would have preferred. He got a flat during the parade lap around the mall and was forced to sprint after the caravan to catch back on. About a mile into the race Michael Norton of Nerac decided to stretch his legs, and got a gap of about ten seconds, but this didn’t hold up very long.
Josh Dillon of Louis Garneau tried his luck next about ten miles in, gaining 1:40 on the chasers and stayed away for almost thirty miles. During his parade off the front Colavita and HealthNet massed on the front controlling the race.
By mile 45 the pace and hills had taken their toll, the field had been winnowed by a quarter. The race leader Greg Henderson, Jittery Joe racer Evan Elken, and Subways Ryan McKenzie took a chance which was quickly shut down by the field.
Two riders attacked at the feed and were admonished by US Pro Champion Chris Wherry. Target’s Eneas Freyre and Jittery Joe’s Thad Dulin attacked immediately after the feed zone and remained away until the foot of Blue Knob Mountain, a 1600 foot climb.
HealthNet and Colavita set the pace up the mountain, with the peloton shattering along the way. By the top only nine riders remained in the lead group. Four Health Net riders – Justin England, Chris Wherry, Greg Henderson and Scott Moninger; two Aerospace Engineering racers- Hugh Moran and Ryan Trebon, plus RMCEF racer Andy Bajadali, Philip Wong of Fiordifrutti, and Anthony Colby of TargetTraining.
From Blue Knob the race was theirs, the rest of the peloton was out of contention. All that remained was sorting the podium. Unsuprisingly, based on the odds, HealthNet took first place with Chris Wherry taking over the Leaders Jersey.
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