In article <[email hidden]>,
John Forrest Tomlinson said:There are some pretty impressive shots on Amara Boursaw's site like
these two:
http://www.wheelsinfocus.com/img_7619tdg.jpg
http://www.wheelsinfocus.com/img_7621tdg.jpg
http://www.wheelsinfocus.com/New_Site2/photosroad.htm
Nice stuff. Greg Descantes also covered the BC Superweek events, which
includes the bookend Tour de Delta and Tour de White Rock events:
http://www.descantes.com/
Regarding White Rock, I was there helping out with driving duties. The
photos aren't up yet, but O'Bee took off in the last few laps and put
two minutes into the field in short order. I talked to one rider from
Symmetrics (all-conquering at BC events and regulars at the major US
events this year), and he said he was able to stay with O'Bee for about
a quarter of the hillclimb before he cracked.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2005/jul05/white_rock05
It was a beautiful thing to regard. I was in the media van as he came up
the hill on one of the final laps, and when he crested the hill, the
pack was not visible. And we could see pretty far back along the course.
It was unbelievable how much time he put into a serious (Healthnet was
there, among others) chasing pack.
BTW, that course is brutally hard. Here's a site with the profile:
http://www.city.whiterock.bc.ca/2005Leisure-Services/Tour-de-White-Rock.h
tml
about 600' of gain per 10 km lap, and the last 6 laps were done on a
shorter 3.8k version of the course that was basically just the first big
hill and the not-flat-at-all finishing straight. So what's
that...something over 7000 feet of gain in the men's race.
It will come as no surprise that the women's race was won by two tiny
juniors from Quebec. Cyclingnews: "I like the climbs so I liked the
race," said [Karol-Ann] Canuel with translation from Joelle Numainville.
Yeah, I'd like the climbs too if I weighed 80 pounds!
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