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Stage 2
Thursday, August 20
Thanksgiving Point to Mount Nebo
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Thursday's final 20 mile ascent up Mount Nebo shattered the peloton but BISSELL's Burke Swindlehurst was in the select group to finish in the top 10.
The race started off with a 7.6 mile neutral zone but the riders quickly got to work forcing early paces of 45 MPH with a lot of frequent attacks. None of the early attacks would stick until a 6 man break including BISSELL's Frank Pipp got successfully off and built up a maximum gap close to 4 minutes. As the race approached Mount Nebo, both the break and the peloton began to fall apart. The 6 man break was reduced to 4 with Pipp remaining in the front group but eventually they, too, were reabsorbed.
A new lead group emerged and included eventual stage winner, Darren Lill (Team Type 1). Lill attacked the front group and went on to take the win 21 seconds ahead of Rock Racing's Mancebo and BMC's Louder who finished in 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
BISSELL's Ben Jacques-Maynes reflects on a tough day, "no amount of acclimation was going to help with that effort." BJM finished 2:59 back and fell to 17th place. Burke currently sits in 11th place in the overall and is 2:50 behind race leader, Mancebo. Tomorrow's individual time trial will offer BISSELL the opportunity to capitalize on the stage.
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