With the 2015 road season starting soon, I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the races from the past few years. I wanted to start with the 2013 Rock Lititz Tour Criterium, since they recently announced they would be back for 2015. Instead of a two day event with a road race and time trial on Saturday, and a criterium on Sunday, the event will only be the criterium races on Sunday. Racing will start on April 26th at 11 AM with the Cat 5’s, and the last race of the day will be the Pro 1/2 men starting at 4:40 PM. Head over to Bikereg.com to check the event schedule and to register for the event.
The 2013 race closed with the 1/2/3 men’s field taking to the course. The rain that was expected had so far held off. The race saw multiple riders try to breakaway, like Joe Hydrick riding for Thru-It-All Cycling at the time. None of the breaks were successful, but a group of five riders did get off the front when a a crash in turn three split the field. The group built their lead and had plenty of time on the field when the bell rang for the last lap. During the final sprint, there was some controversy on whether the eventual winner, David Fuentes (SEAVS/Haymarket) had neglected to hold his line and clipped the front wheel of Ryan Shebelsky (Team Alliance Environmental). His teammate, Patrick Koos was able to hold off Barry Miller (Firefighters Cyclinc Association) at the line, with a second teammate, Eric Workowski, coming in next. Shebelsky was able to collect his bike and make it to the line to take fifth.
I do have to confess, I shot most of the race with my white balance incorrectly set. At the time, I didn’t think I was going to be able to process the pictures well enough to post. While I think they would have turned out better, I think I was able to salvage them pretty well, without having to resort to going black and white. You’ll be able to notice when I fixed the white balance very late in the day.
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