Men's Race NACT #10 Southampton 11/22/09

Men's Race NACT #10 Southampton 11/22/09 1269 views

November 22, 2009; Southampton, NY, USA: Even though The Hamptons are one of the eastern-most places in the United States, it was like a wild west show at the second day of the Whitimore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup. Amy Dombroski (Schlamm presented by Clement & Primus Mootry) won an old-fashioned duel with Georgia Gould (Luna Chix) in a women’s race that was dominated by riders from Colorado. Then, after the women had their shootout, the Three Amigos of Cannondale/CyclocrossWorld.com rode into town and laid down the law. Temperatures in the ‘40’s, and hard ground rolled smooth by the previous week’s Nor’easter, made for blisteringly fast laps. The leaders of the Elite Men’s race were frequently lapping the course in under five-and-a-half minutes. And while the track wasn’t fast enough to create a true peloton, drafting was the order of the day in both the Men’s and Women’s Elite races. In the Men’s race, Tim Johnson survived a first-lap dab on Methane Hill, numerous attacks by Ryan Trebon (Kona-FSA), and a battle with one of his own teammates to collect his second UCI win in as many days. With the extremely fast course, and without the help of teammate Barry Wicks, who didn’t make the cross-continent trip to Long Island, Trebon was clearly compromised tactically as Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld.com’s “Three Amigos” tag-teamed him early in the race and went on to again sweep the podium with Jeremy Powers and Jamey Driscoll following Johnson home . Eventually Trebon faded to sixth, behind Giant’s Adam Craig and Swiss U23 sensation Valentin Scherz (Pro Cycles-Scott-Newwork). With his fifth place finish, Scherz sews-up the MAC U23 title and becomes almost untouchable in MAC’s overall Elite Championship with only the Capital Cross Classic in suburban Washington DC on December 6 remaining. Not a bad vacation for the young rider from Epalinges who came to come to America to race and improve his English before fulfilling his mandatory military service commitment next year.