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Wine Country Cycling Classic 1999 |
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1985 Sonoma County has been host to one of Northern California's premier
cycling events: The Wine Country Cycling Classic on Saturday, March
27 and Sunday, March 28. The Wine County races are the only races
of this caliber, nationwide, on this weekend. In addition to competing
for a total of $15,000 in prize money, the racers will be accumulating
points for the National Point Series. |
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Saturday, March 27, 1999 |
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Sunday, March 28, 1999 |
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Report from New Zealand's Graeme Miller
Wine Country Classic Road Race, 136 kms, 8 X 17 kms laps:
This was to be one of the hardest races I've ever done. Each lap had a
very hard 4km climb plus a few other hills tossed in just to toughen us
up a little.
Mercury, Saturn,and of-course Shaklee were the teams to watch. We had just done a full week of photo's for our team so we all had not done a lot of training while in San Francisco. No excuses though. Gord Frazer (after reading my last report) attacked a the start and took it to us along with Eddie Gragus they finally were caught with two laps to go. I had to cry enough with one lap to go and rode back to the van to watch the finish with my head hanging very low. It turned out to be a real battle up the front Mercury had 3 Shaklee 2 going into the last lap. Saturn were chasing hard to get it back together. Our two riders lost contact and it regrouped somewhere on the last lap. Mercury were 1, 2 with Moninger and Rodgers (Mr Hard Bastard himself) and then our Skaklee man Wohlberg 3rd.
It was a very glum ride home for us losers. No ride in the van if you don't put out in the race!!!
Day 2 - 75 minutes plus 5 laps Criterium in Downtown Santa Rosa:
The course today was flat and fast but it had cateyes all over the place
it was like riding through a mine field. Shaklee had to save some face
and I was motivated to make sure that the other teams knew by the end
of the day that we are here to race this year. So I made sure that we
were all wired up with the radios plus I had a talk back piece on my one
just to make sure that all went to plan. We went into the race wanting
the win as there were a lot of head Shaklee people there. So it was do
or die. Jonas Carney was our man set up for the win. He was told to sit
on the back and we would do all the work making it look like the team
was setting me up for the win.
The plan went perfectly thanks to the radios and a lot of yell by the team manager. With 9 laps to go all of the Shaklee Team were on the front and winding it up. With one to go I went to the front with Jonas on my wheel. He blew by me in the last straight like I was standing still to take the win from Gagg and Eddie Gragus. No Saturn or Mercury to be seen. Job well done.
Courtesy of Cycling News
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