July 9 2013

 
      Rosewood Series is part of the USA Cycling national ranking system.
2013 Series II Race V
 

Miami Lakes, Fl July 7th, 2013

*35+ L Rios was able to keep his white jersey by winning the first intermediate sprint and placing second on the second one. G Moore from Bike America and S Gilligan broke away from the pack, but only Moore was able to hold and won the day. Second place was C Sosa, followed by JF Rodriguez both from EBP Team. I Franco moved to third place overall, ahead on second place was his team mate B Reeves, and the winner of the series was Nelson Trujillo from TAS Team.
*45+ & 55+ The expected race of the day, triple tie on first place, and the white jersey already secure by J Armas from GS Palm Beach Team. A breakaway of six riders formed, the only one missing from the top three on GC was Armas. Now it was between Reeves and Ortiz, but then Franco and Ferrer launch an attack to made it one and two for the day. The rest of the break got caught but C Ortiz from Ghost Riders placed forth and got enough points to claim the final yellow jersey for series II. On the 55+ category M Mosquera kept yellow followed by F Craig, and closing the GC podium was F Vasquez.
*Pro 1,2,3 The white jersey exchange hands at the end of the day. The winner of this classification end up been J Rodriguez, from Performance Team. Two Russians National Team members racing for Atomic Team came to race with us; I Kovalev dominated the day by winning the race, one intermediate sprint and second on the second one. Glad to have such level of cyclist from time to time so our local riders can compare abilities with them. N Trujillo by placing second for the day was able to jump into third place overall. P Sansbury kept his second place on GC. Y Aira from Bike Street team was the overall winner of series II.
*4&5 JA Rodriguez from Velo Master has not challenge for the white jersey points at this final race of the series. A break of three formed and was too late for the bunch to bring them back. C Castellanos won the day followed by R Moreno with Sun Cycling and S Sanchez racing for Galiz team, to close the podium. Second and third place were tie on points, between C Canales and R Gonzales. Two riders were chasing the break but one lap to go C Canales started chasing those two. This chase gave him fourth place to take three points and secure second place overall. The winner of the series for just one point was Nelson Rolo from Colavita Team.

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