La Ruta de los Conquistadores
Todd Wells (USA) - La Ruta 2011 Champion
Press Release / 07.11.2011
Akerson trimmed Wells’ lead to around seven minutes, which at La Ruta is tenuous at best. But the constant attacking took its toll on Akerson and in the end he gave back three minutes to finish with his best showing ever at La Ruta.
Wells and Akerson garnered much of the attention after the final stage, but it was Costa Rican Moises Hernandez who won the 120km day in a time of 4:00:30. Akerson and Wells finished second with the same time of 4:08:09. Mejia rounded out the top four at 4:10:13.
Costa Rica’s Adriana Rojas won every stage of La Ruta in the women’s contest, finishing the race in 22:22:27. She topped Americans Rebecca Rusch and Louise Kobin by 1:19:38 and 1:45:05 respectively.
The reason Rojas had such a huge gap on Rusch and Kobin is that the two were riding together in a group on stage four and took a wrong turn. The mistake took them on a costly 22km detour.
"It might take me till next season to recover from this race..." --Todd Wells
"It's an amazing race. Hard. Very hard but very rewarding." --Todd Wells
"La Ruta is a strange addiction." --Milton Ramos (HON)
--- --- ---
Overall Standings
1. Todd Wells (USA) 17:18:06
2. Rom Akerson (CRC) +10:18
3. Luis Mejía (COL) +27:28
4. Lico Ramírez (CRC) +39:00
5. Moises Hernandez (CRC) +42:30
---
1. Adriana Rojas (CRC) 22:22:27
2. Rebecca Rusch (USA) 23:42:05
3. Louise Kobin (USA) 24:07:32
4. Jane Rynbrandt (USA) 24:44:20
5. Ligia Madrigal (CRC) 26:16:35
SleepMonsters
