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It\'s Just Around the Corner for Páez!

05.11.2006

On the second day of La Ruta de los Conquistadores the main positions were taken by the same trio composed as day one - Leonardo Paez (Full Dynamix), Jeremiah Bishop (Volkswagen-Trek) and Costa Rican Andrey Amador (BCR-Pizza Hut-KHS). Even though they passed through the finish line in the same order as yesterday, the time difference today was minimal, compared to the fifteen-minute advantage Paez achieved on the first stage.

Páez, who is racing La Ruta for the first time, declared he felt this stage was easier, even with the small mechanical problem with his suspension and evidenced he is very excited about tomorrow. “I’ve been told tomorrow’s stage might be less difficult ... I will try to keep up�, Paez said.

For Jeremiah Bishop, the path that leads to the town of Aquiares, just minutes from today’s finish line, proved to be his worst problem. Riding downhill through a coffee plantation on very dry terrain Bishop could not control his bike, crashed and fractured his nose. This probably cost him first place as the difference between him and Paez was only 4 minutes at the time.

The 20-year old Costa Rican Andrey Amador, finished third again. “This second day was as tough as the first, but shorter. The climb and consequently, the change in altitude presented a challenge, but I tried to keep up with “Lico� Ramirez (forth place), who did great, but had several flats. I am not familiar with tomorrow’s course but I am planning to fight it!�, Amador expressed.

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