Tour of Utah, August 17-22

[mr. tibbs]

The Tour of Utah is branded as America's toughest stage race because it passes the Rocky Mountain's Wasatch Range surrounding Salt Lake City and challenges the peloton to 480km and more than 30,000 feet of high altitude climbing over a period of six days.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/6th-tour-of-utah-ne/preview

Mancebo defending against 2008 winner Jeff Louder and likely challenger Leipheimer. Should be a killer race.

Prologue Aug 17 Utah State Capitol 4.5 km
Stage 1 Aug 18 Ogden - Salt Lake City 137 km
Stage 2 Aug 19 Thanksgiving Point - Mount Nebo 126.3 km
Stage 3 Aug 20 Miller Motorsports Park 14.8 km
Stage 4 Aug 21 Downtown Park City
Stage 5 Aug 22 Park City - Snowbird 165 km

http://www.tourofutah.com/

 

[Ryaguas]

Any live streamings??? Check my satellite but Je ne regarde pas rien ici...

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

This should be fun. The prologue runs just up the hill from my office. I'll probably walk up there after work to check it out.

It's beastly hot today too. The asphalt blazes at 6pm here.

No live streaming yet. Race ticker at:

http://twitter.com/theTourofUtah

 

[GWAR79]

Money

The prize money has been increasing which is nice, but come on, $150 for a stage win?

http://www.tourofutah.com/uploads/ToU10-technical-guide.pdf

Also, whats w/ the Canyon team this year?

It’s gonna be a meat grinder out there. Put your sausage costumes boys on and get on the conveyor belt

 

[Squares]

Stage 5 Aug 22 Park City - Snowbird 165 km

That stage is pretty epic, but they should run it slighly in reverse, going from Salt Lake City, over the hill to Alpine, up American Fork Canyon/Alpine loop around Jordanelle Res and in to Park City.

Then to make it real fun, they should go on the gravel roads (Think Giro) up Guardsman Pass, down Big Cottonwood and over to the finishing climb up Little Cottonwood to Snowbird.

That would make it far and away the toughest single day's race in the USA.

 

[BroDeal]

That stage is pretty epic, but they should run it slighly in reverse, going from Salt Lake City, over the hill to Alpine, up American Fork Canyon/Alpine loop around Jordanelle Res and in to Park City.

Then to make it real fun, they should go on the gravel roads (Think Giro) up Guardsman Pass, down Big Cottonwood and over to the finishing climb up Little Cottonwood to Snowbird.

That would make it far and away the toughest single day's race in the USA.

The Alpine Loop is steeper on the Sundance side. I don't think the gravel on Guardsman is ridable on a roadbike.

I think I will be at the Mt. Nebo stage.

 

[Squares]

The Alpine Loop is steeper on the Sundance side.

I think so too, but either way up is still pretty tough and the decents are tought to with all the switchbacks.

I don't think the gravel on Guardsman is ridable on a roadbike.

They usually plow it in the summer so that it is passable without big ruts for cars. If they made the road passable for bikes it would be an incredible ride just 15 miles from the finish climb.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The Alpine Loop is steeper on the Sundance side. I don't think the gravel on Guardsman is ridable on a roadbike.

I think I will be at the Mt. Nebo stage.

The gravel's rideable, but not very enjoyable. I rode it up from the Park City side home to Salt Lake. Even before that, the road gets REALLY steep. It's 13% or so above construction at the new Montage resort. The gravel section is very steep in sections, but the worst part was the dust.

The Mt. Nebo stage is great. That's one of the best rides in the area. I've cursed my bike many times on that mountain.

 

[BroDeal]

The gravel's rideable, but not very enjoyable. I rode it up from the Park City side home to Salt Lake. Even before that, the road gets REALLY steep. It's 13% or so above construction at the new Montage resort. The gravel section is very steep in sections, but the worst part was the dust.

Kewl. The last time I was there was a few years ago driving from the finish of the Wasatch Front 100 run to Brighton. I remember thinking that it would be a great ride if the road was not so crappy (and there were no worries about the thorns that are a plague on the entire region).

 

[Ryaguas]

This should be fun. The prologue runs just up the hill from my office. I'll probably walk up there after work to check it out.

It's beastly hot today too. The asphalt blazes at 6pm here.

No live streaming yet. Race ticker at:

http://twitter.com/theTourofUtah

Ok... I'm following them... Oh come on w/o live streaming we miss all the fun...

 

[mr. tibbs]

This should be fun. The prologue runs just up the hill from my office. I'll probably walk up there after work to check it out.

It's beastly hot today too. The asphalt blazes at 6pm here.

Nice. Am jealous. Try to get some pics! I used to enjoy doing an easy spin up City Creek after a ride up one of the Cottonwoods. I used to live on 2nd avenue, and I remember walking over for the circuit race that ran up and around the capital a few years ago.

My wife is in Salt Lake right now, visiting her parents. I'm gutted that she's going to see parts of the ToU and I'm stuck in Texas...

EDIT: Brodeal: You did the Wasatch 100? Brutal. I worked with a guy who does it every year; he always takes several days off to recover.

 

[DAOTEC]

There will be Live Dashboard at SteepHiill.TV: http://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-utah/

The racemap:

Top 20 last year 2009 GC standings |

1. Francisco Mancebo Perez (ESP), Rock Racing, 12.28:35
2. Darren Lill (RSA), Team Type 1, at 0:46
3. Jeff Louder (USA), BMC Pro Cycling Team, at 1:29
4. Alex Howes (USA), Felt-Holowesko, at 1:54
5. Philip Zajicek (USA), Fly V Australia, at 2:03
6. Burke Swindlehurst (USA), Bissell Pro Cycling, at 2:18
7. Matthew Busche (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 2:36
8. Patrick Mccarty (USA), OUCH-Maxxis, at 3:05
9. Oscar Sevilla (ESP), Rock Racing, at 4:14
10. Brent Bookwalter (USA), BMC Pro Cycling Team, at 4:18
11. Dan Bowman (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 5:38
12. Matthew Cooke (USA), Rideclean p/b Patentit.com, at 7:24
13. Glen Chadwick (NZL), Rock Racing, at 8:44
14. Peter Stetina (USA), Felt-Holowesko, at 8:47
15. Max Jenkins (USA), Kfan Composite Team, at 9:02
16. Tyler Wren (USA), Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home, at 9:25
17. Scott Tietzel (USA), Kfan Composite Team, at 10:20
18. Bradley White (USA), OUCH-Maxxis, at 10:32
19. Ben Jacques-maynes (USA), Bissell Pro Cycling, at 10:48

Still remember double-up 2009 stage 1:

 

[DigitalIbis]

I didn't realize there were so many people from Utah on this forum. I'll be at the first stage later today and somewhere up Little Cottonwood on Saturday. Rooting for a friend on the KBS team!

 

[BroDeal]

EDIT: Brodeal: You did the Wasatch 100? Brutal. I worked with a guy who does it every year; he always takes several days off to recover.

Yeah, I did that. Hard hard race on horribly rocky trails. Fun. though.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Go bookwalter! Hope he beats bottle in the prologue!

 

[_yngve_]

I didn't realize there were so many people from Utah on this forum.

No joke.

I'll be riding in the lead car tomorrow doing crowd counts, and volunteering at the PC crit and LCC finish on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

 

[mr. tibbs]

Go bookwalter! Hope he beats bottle in the prologue!

What about Ben Day? He's enjoyed some success stateside these past few years--maybe he'll add to his palmares?

I'd love to see Swindlehurst get a good overall result, so I'm pulling for him to place well. Louder, too, and any of the other local boys. (Could this be a stage for Dave Harward?)

Thoughts on Hincapie in this? If he's motivated he may be able to win the prologue and hold the jersey for a day. He certainly seems to like short stage races in the US, though I'd much rather see one of the local guys in yellow.

Thanks for posting all of that, DAOTEC. Sad that Sevilla won't be back this year.

 

[Squares]

I didn't realize there were so many people from Utah on this forum.

There are a lot of people who are FROM Utah.

I grew up there and now live on the east coast. I love to go back for skiing in the winter and riding in the summer. I laughed at the first person who talked about the great Mountain biking trails on the east coast after having the Wasatch Crest trail within a 20 minute drive.

It will be great to hear the reports of the race.

 

[cyclelicious]

What about Ben Day? He's enjoyed some success stateside these past few years--maybe he'll add to his palmares?

He's no longer on the latest roster.

 

[DAOTEC]

mr. tibbs love this race anyway, but thanks, will add-on to your lead thread if it pays tribute to the race.

 

[krebs303]

Taylor Phinney in at 6:02!! Takes lead

http://twitter.com/touLive

 

[jaylew]

1) Phinney
2) Dowsett
3) Bookwalter

 

[blaxland]

Good ride by Brookwater he is coming along nicely...Louder for the win overall.

 

[Kodiak]

I know it's only an American race but there were more than 5 racers in the race. How about posting the rest of the results CN?

 

[velobabee]

taylor & me

check out my pictures of taylor p. and me & youngstrong, garmin boyz having a chat on PEARL ST. west end coffee shop, before ride to Ward.
G O T A Y L O R you R O C K big