Tour of Utah Stage 3 Photo Gallery
by Jen See on Aug 22, 2009 1:34 PM EDT
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Tour of Utah's Best Young Rider Alex Howes of Felt-Howeleski Partners races in the evening light.
Tom Zirbel of Team Bissell won last night's stage 3 time trial at the Tour of Utah. Zirbel rode the flat 14.5 kilometer course 17 minutes even. The track at the Miller Motorsports Park made for fast racing, despite the desert heat. Ian McKissick of BMC finished second, while Brent Bookwalter of BMC, who won the prologue, finished third. Jeremy Vennell of Bissell and David Zabriskie of Garmin-Slipstream rounded out the top five on the stage.
In the general classification, Francisco Mancebo of Rock Racing successfully defended his lead. Darren Lill of Team Type 1 did a strong ride against the watch and inched closer to Mancebo in the overall standings. Lill know sits 30 seconds behind the Spanish rider from Rock Racing. Utah local Jeff Louder of BMC remains in third in the general classification, 42 seconds behind Mancebo. Louder also currently wears the Blue Jersey for Best Utah rider. Alex Howes, meanwhile, continues to lead the Best Young Riders classification. Full results.
Today, the Tour of Utah celebrates its queen stage, a mountainous road race running between Park City and Snowbird. The stage includes two major climbs and finishes with a climb up Cottonwood Canyon to the Creekside Center at Snowbird Resort. Fred, our fearless photographer, will ride the moto today. Watch for a gallery this evening or early tomorrow.
Photo gallery, below the flip!
Francisco Mancebo of Rock Racing successfully defended his race lead.
Brent Bookwalter of BMC, who won the opening prologue, finished third at the Miller Motorsports Park.
U.S. National Champion David Zabriskie of Garmin-Slipstream, cornering. Zabriskie finished fifth on the stage.
Best Utah Rider Jeff Louder of BMC sits third in the general classification.
Burke Swindlehurst of Team Bissell races in the warm desert twilight.
The jerseys: Jeff Louder of BMC, Francisco Mancebo of Rock Racing, Darren Lill of Team Type 1, and Alex Howes of Felt-Howeleski Partners
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Recommend viewing the original gallery, as the photos here are cropped to fit the Cafe format. They look über-sweet in their original dimensions. ~Gav.
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absolutely
i’ve been really impressed with the shots of desert scenery, between Lyne and Fred – i love that kind of country!
Howes
won today’s stage, attacking from the early break and going to solo on the final climb. Swindlehurst was second on the stage, Mancebo remains the overall leader.
Photos coming :-)
quick question..
The DZ shot ought to show two riders, DX and his passed 30, it actually might have been the 1’00" man as he was in 30 second interval land. The photo is cut off on the right as I see it here. Anyone else see it that way? Doing Stage 4 post process now, G will have em shortly. Less skilled moto driver today made for a bit of an hectic stage. Only got in the bad graces of the comm car once ….
OK nuff babble, I’m spent but here they come,,,,,
by Christopher See on Aug 22, 2009 9:28 PM EDT reply actions
No, I see two riders in the DZ photo
but I use the ‘Wide’ setting (in the side bar almost on the top right, just below the search box).
yeah I thought it was my end..
Safari isn’t rendering the images properly. Switching to firefox… One has to check the qulity of one work and all. G has done a great job posting it up for us.
by Christopher See on Aug 23, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah Ha...
never saw that before.. eh viola it’s fixed….. Learn something new every day.
by Christopher See on Aug 23, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions
now why do you suppose the wide button doesn't appear on the front page?
by Christopher See on Aug 23, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
It does
but it’s on the left side of the page. Just to confuse you.
And "view the full gallery"
gives you both podium girls. And a really cool press gallery.
I knew the Pbase uploads were good, it's just something in the way I'm seeing this post.
For some reason it’s cut all the right sides off.
by Christopher See on Aug 23, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
yes
The Cafe automatically resized the photos – I decided to do it that way, because while it altered the original compositions, it didn’t massacre them. The alternative was to either resize the photos by hand (doable, but kind of a pain in the ass) or run the medium size from pbase which shows up a bit small here.
This is also why I recommended the clickthrough to the original galleries.
yes resize is a pain in teh butt.. I just finished Stage 5...
Is there a set of sizes that works better than others?
by Christopher See on Aug 24, 2009 2:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Is Howes riding on the proteam next year?
Would be great to see Bodridge, Howes and Stetina make the jumps to the pro team next year.
Howes comes across as being a bit young still.
He’s just 21, still kind of awkward. Nice kid, I listened in a on a couple of interviews he was giving. He still has two years as U-23, and in my opinion would benefit from the time to finish maturing. His body language says he’s just not quite ready. It would be sad to see him pushed and come up short. Loads of talent. Two more years to develop fully and he’s going to be a real force. Stetina is probably a good choice to move up, but Lynne at Podium Insight would know better than I. She has a better crystal ball.
by Christopher See on Aug 24, 2009 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions
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