USPRO Time Trial Championship

Zirbel 2nd in USPRO TT

BISSELL's Tom Zirbel finished 2nd today in the USPRO Time Trial to winner for the fourth consecutive year, Garmin's Dave Zabriskie. This race has been a goal of Tom's since finishing second last year to Zabriskie by a margin of 5 seconds. However, today Zabriskie tore up the pavement and definitively won the race by 44 seconds over Tom despite putting in a colossal effort. The technical 33.4K course did push the limit on Tom's 200 pound 6'4" frame, but he still managed to beat his 2008 time on the same course by over 20 seconds.

The very small start list of 23 riders contained the largest team rosters from BISSELL, OUCH, and Jelly Belly who each raced 4 riders, and the only 2 pro tour riders were Zabriskie and his teammate, Mike Friedman. Many other teams withheld from racing the TT knowing that they couldn't contest the Zabriskie/Zirbel dual and hoped to reserve strength for the road race. BISSELL had a solid performance today and looks forward to battling it out tomorrow.

TT Results:

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Tom's TT		Tom on the podium		Champagne!