Archive for August, 2007
Final General Classification
Rank Plate Team Team Leader NAT Team Member NAT Stage Time Penalties Total Time Difference
100+ Open Gender
1 705 Syngenta Prairie Boys BENSON, Bill CDN SISSONS, Don CDN 01:55:16.50 00:00:00.00 01:55:16.50 00:00:00.00
2 722 Team R.A.C.E. / Kamikaze GORDON, Hamish CDN VARGA, Steve CDN 02:02:19.72 00:00:00.00 02:02:19.72 00:07:03.22
3 709 Zootallures AMYOT, François CDN AUCLAIR, Daniel CDN 02:02:48.50 [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 7 Report
Sparwood-Fernie
48km/660m climbing
After a Day 6 which will go down as one of the most brutal days in TransRockies history, the riders were treated to a quick 48km Stage 7 run into beautiful Fernie to the finish line celebrations with the friends and family who were waiting there for them. The weather held in and the [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 7 Brief Report
Sparwood to Fernie
48km/655 metres climbing
The short and fast last stage of the TransRockies saw the Team United Cycles duo of Roddi Lega and Tim Heemskerk confirm their dominant overall victory with their sixth stage win in seven days. They gapped the second and third placed Team La Ruta/Pizza Hut and Team Rocky Mountain EA Sports [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 6 results
Rank Plate Team Team Leader NAT Team Member NAT Stage Time Penalties Total Time Difference
100+ Open Gender
1 705 [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 6 Report
Elkford-Sparwood
116km/2300m climbing
Going into stage 6 of the 2007 TransRockies Challenge all the racers knew that there was every chance that this would be longest and toughest stage of the race. The day dawned ominously with an orange and hazy sunrise above the mountains East of Elkford, British Columbia. While the smoke from forest fires rolling [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 6 Flash results
Open Men
1 (1) 159 CDN UNITED CYCLE TEAM 5:04:58.22
***
2 (2) 108 CRC LA RUTA 5:04:58.93
0.71
3 (5) 95 [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 5 Report
Whiteswan Lake–ElkFord
93km/1500m climbing
After three days in the remote Rocky Mountain backcountry, the riders of the 2007 TransRockies Challenge were very pleased to return to civilization as they rolled into Elkford, British Columbia to finish Stage 5 in what has been an exceptionally hot, dusty and wearing edition of this epic race.
Again, the hot high sun [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 5 Results
Rank Plate Team Team Leader NAT Team Member NAT Stage Time Penalties Total Time Difference
100+ Open Gender
1 705 [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 4 Report
Nipika-Whiteswan Lake
115km/1342m climbing
After a two-day stopover at Nipika Mountain Resort, the 283 teams remaining in the 2007 TransRockies Challenge set out on Stage 4 for the mountain campground of Whiteswan Lake, the last and most remote wilderness day of the race. With a route which was longer and more physically punishing than technically difficult, there [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Stage 4 results
Rank Plate Team Team Leader NAT Team Member NAT Stage Time Penalties Total Time Difference
100+ Open Gender
1 705 [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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