AlpacAttack
Day 5 - The Race to Melipeuco
News Release / 19.04.2015
After the toils of yesterday’s 6 to 8 hour 140km epic, the AlpacAttacker’s were looking forward to a slightly more “pleasant” experience during stage 5, and they weren’t to be disappointed.
Clear blue skies, views of snow-capped volcanoes and an ambient temperature of around 19C greeted the riders as they congregated on the start line for the 70km race to Melipeuco.
The course today was basically split into 2 sections, a 35km, 900m ascent, followed by a 35km, 900m descent. The usual suspects were once again setting the regular pattern predominant over the last 4 days, with Yuk Ikeda breaking away on the first serious gradient and Nuno Miguel Mano Jorge, Guillero Torres Alvares and Sonya Looney giving chase.
The top riders didn’t have it their own way however as a chasing pack of 4 riders, Eduardo Bispo, Matt Ewonus, Federico Guerra and Wendy Lyall, pushed them all the way to the line with Wendy finishing only 20 seconds back from Sonya who also put in a great sprint finish to take 3rd place overall.
Yuki increased his lead over Nuno, by a further 3 minutes and now leads by 54 minutes going into the final stage.
Zbigniew Wizner of Poland again put in a strong solo effort to take the men’s +50 category stage win, but the overall battle in that category will be between Jorge Vidart of Uruguay and Pablo Rodriguez of Argentina, with 18 minutes separating them, and 106km left of racing tomorrow.
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