July 24/09 14:00 pm - Cascade Classic: Women's Stage 3
Posted by Editoress on 07/24/09
Everyone on Team TIBCO new Alison Starnes could ride a strong time trial. Now, everyone in the North American peloton knows it, too. Starnes stormed to a 2nd place finish in the Stage 3 Individual Time Trial of the Cascade Classic Thursday, finishing 0:10 behind stage winner Jessica Phillips (Lip Smackers) and 0:02 ahead of the reigning U.S. national time trial champion, Alison Powers (Team Type 1). The strong ride enable Starnes to jump from 16th overall to 6th overall, 1:25 behind race leader Evelyn Stevens (Webcor).
“I felt like I’d be top 10 today, and I was hoping to podium,” said Starnes, who is still only in her second year of racing at any level. “It was a good course. It’s roughly the same course that we’ll be doing nationals on next week, but a little longer. This gives me a lot of confidence going into nationals. That confidence helps you push through the pain. And time trials can be very painful.”
Starnes was just one of seven Team TIBCO riders who endured the pain of Thursday’s time trial extremely well. In fact, Joanne Kiesanowski, Julie Beveridge, Amber Rais, Katharine Carroll and Meredith Miller occupied the 7th through 11th spots on the stage, while Lauren Tamayo slotted in at 13th for the TT.
As a result, Team TIBCO is in the enviable position of occupying the 2nd through 4th positions in the overall standings with Rais, Carroll and Beveridge, who finished 3rd overall at Cascade last year, and is currently wearing the jersey of the best young rider in the race. All three are within 1:10 of the race leader, while Miller is sitting 9th overall at 2:00 back. Kiesanowski jumped from 35th to 14th overall at 2:54 back.
“I think we pretty clearly showed we have the strongest team in the race,” Rais said. “We’re in the perfect position. We have a lot of riders high up in the standings, and each one is threatening. We just have to race intelligently. Our goal is to get a TIBCO rider in the yellow leader’s jersey. It doesn’t matter which one of us. We need to be aggressive, but also ride smart.”
Friday marks the queen stage of the Classic, a 114.2 km beast that ends with the climb up to the ski station on Mt. Bachelor, topping out at nearly 6,400 feet (1,950 metres). It’s likely that the riders occupying the final podium on Sunday will be determined on the steep pitches of the final 5km of Friday’s stage.
“It’s gonna hurt tomorrow,” Starnes added. “Webcor will have their work cut out for them tomorrow. We have a lot of cards to play, and I expect we’ll play all of them.”
Team TIBCO press release
| Stage 3 (July 23rd) Bend Research, Inc. Skyliners Time Trial, 25.744 km |
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| 1 Jessica Phillips (Team Lip Smacker) | 38:45.47 |
| 2 Alison Starnes (Team TIBCO) | at 0:10 |
| 3 Alison Powers (Team Type 1) | 0:12 |
| 4 Evelyn Stevens (Webcor Builders) | 0:27 |
| 5 Ruth Clemence (Touchstone Climbing) | 0:29 |
| 6 Alison Shanks (Bike NZ) | 0:33 |
| 7 Joanne Kiesanowski (Team TIBCO) | 0:36 |
| 8 Julie Beveridge (Team TIBCO) | 0:41 |
| 9 Amber Rais (Team TIBCO) | 0:42 |
| 10 Katharine Carroll (Team TIBCO) | 0:46 |
| 11 Meredith Miller (Team TIBCO) | 0:56 |
| 12 Anne Samplonius (Team Lip Smacker) | 1:15 |
| 13 Lauren Tamayo (Team TIBCO) | 1:33 |
| 14 Chrissy Ruiter (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 1:34 |
| 15 Rebecca Much (Webcor Builders) | 1:38 |
| 16 Robin Farina (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 1:40 |
| 17 Katheryn Mattis (Webcor Builders) | 1:42 |
| 18 Cath Cheatley (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 1:46 |
| 19 Kori Seehafer (Team Type 1) | 1:53 |
| 20 Olivia Dillon (Touchstone Climbing) | 1:59 |
| 21 Marisa Asplund (DFT p/b Treads) | 2:01 |
| 22 Rachel Neylan (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 2:03 |
| 23 Amanda Miller (Team Lip Smacker) | 2:13 |
| 24 Carmen McNellis (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 2:16 |
| 25 Kristen Lasasso (Team Lip Smacker) | 2:22 |
| 26 Kristin McGrath (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 2:26 |
| 27 Anna Milkowski (DFT p/b Treads) | 2:26 |
| 28 Stacy Marple (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 2:29 |
| 29 Erinne Willock (Webcor Builders) | 2:44 |
| 30 Rachel Heal (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 2:46 |
| 31 Heather Pryor (Touchstone Climbing) | 2:53 |
| 32 Kristin Sanders (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 3:00 |
| 33 Marilyn Mcdonald (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 3:06 |
| 34 Teri Sheasby (Bend Bike N' Sport) | 3:11 |
| 35 Kathryn Donovan (Kahala LaGrange) | 3:16 |
| 36 Kathryn Bertine (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 3:22 |
| 37 Rushlee Buchanan (Bike NZ) | 3:23 |
| 38 Melanie Meyers (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 3:30 |
| 39 Toni Bradshaw (Team Lip Smacker) | 3:32 |
| 40 Alisha Welsh (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 3:37 |
| 41 Heather Kay (Ind) | 3:39 |
| 42 Jane Robertson (Metromint Cycling) | 3:41 |
| 43 Robin Secrist (VELOFORMA) | 3:42 |
| 44 Lauren Hall (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 3:42 |
| 45 Coryn Rivera (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 3:42 |
| 46 Amity Elliott (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 3:42 |
| 47 Cara Gillis (Touchstone Climbing) | 3:45 |
| 48 Tiffany Pezzulo (DFT p/b Treads) | 3:48 |
| 49 Amy Dombroski (Webcor Builders) | 3:55 |
| 50 Martina Patella (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 3:59 |
| 51 Kelly Benjamin (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 4:04 |
| 52 Tina Pic (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 4:04 |
| 53 Heather Logan (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 4:06 |
| 54 Tracey Jacobs (GSBoulder) | 4:24 |
| 55 Erika Graves (Kahala LaGrange) | 4:27 |
| 56 Lise Olivier (Tulsa Toug Racing) | 4:46 |
| 57 Gillian Moody (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 4:48 |
| 58 Patricia Bailey (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 4:50 |
| 59 Sharon Allpress (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 5:05 |
| 60 Gina Grain (Webcor Builders) | 5:05 |
| 61 Jadine Riley (Team Group Health) | 5:06 |
| 62 Ally Stacher (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 5:07 |
| 63 Erica Zaveta (Team Group Health) | 5:11 |
| 64 Gabriela Ferrat (VELOFORMA) | 5:16 |
| 65 Alice Pennington (VELOFORMA) | 5:17 |
| 66 Morgan Kapp (Kahala LaGrange) | 5:20 |
| 67 Holly Borowski (Touchstone Climbing) | 5:21 |
| 68 Linsey Bradshaw-Sandoval (DFT p/b Treads) | 5:30 |
| 69 Christina Smith (VELOFORMA) | 5:32 |
| 70 Ashley Anderson (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 5:34 |
| 71 Emma Rickards (Team TIBCO) | 5:43 |
| 72 Brei Gudsell (VELOFORMA) | 5:44 |
| 73 Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1) | 5:44 |
| 74 Kristina Seley (Touchstone Climbing) | 5:49 |
| 75 Leah Guloien (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 5:55 |
| 76 Andrea Dvorak (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 5:56 |
| 77 Rachel Warner (Team Group Health) | 5:56 |
| 78 Hilary Billington (Team Lip Smacker) | 5:59 |
| 79 Melinda Weiner (Kahala LaGrange) | 6:06 |
| 80 Ambre Levy (DFT p/b Treads) | 6:22 |
| 81 Cara Bussell (Team Group Health) | 6:27 |
| 82 Kirsty Broun (Team Lip Smacker) | 6:42 |
| 83 Lindsay Myers (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 7:00 |
| 84 Annie Malouin (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 7:05 |
| 85 Yukie Nakamura (Metromint Cycling) | 7:08 |
| 86 Melissa Sanborn (Vanderkitten Racing) | 7:11 |
| 87 Amanda Seigle (Metromint Cycling) | 7:30 |
| 88 Arielle Filiberti (Team Group Health) | 7:36 |
| 89 Kendall Ryan (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 7:38 |
| GC | |
| 1 Evelyn Stevens (Webcor Builders) | 7:23:48 |
| 2 Amber Rais (Team TIBCO) | at 1:02 |
| 3 Katharine Carroll (Team TIBCO) | 1:06 |
| 4 Julie Beveridge (Team TIBCO) | 1:10 |
| 5 Alison Powers (Team Type 1) | 1:21 |
| 6 Alison Starnes (Team TIBCO) | 1:25 |
| 7 Cath Cheatley (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 1:37 |
| 8 Chrissy Ruiter (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 1:50 |
| 9 Meredith Miller (Team TIBCO) | 2:00 |
| 10 Jessica Phillips (Team Lip Smacker) | 2:04 |
| 11 Robin Farina (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 2:36 |
| 12 Kristin McGrath (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 2:42 |
| 13 Stacy Marple (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 2:49 |
| 14 Joanne Kiesanowski (Team TIBCO) | 2:54 |
| 15 Kori Seehafer (Team Type 1) | 3:14 |
| 16 Marisa Asplund (DFT p/b Treads) | 3:16 |
| 17 Rachel Neylan (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 3:24 |
| 18 Kristen Lasasso (Team Lip Smacker) | 3:26 |
| 19 Alison Shanks (Bike NZ) | 3:31 |
| 20 Ruth Clemence (Touchstone Climbing) | 3:52 |
| 21 Alisha Welsh (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 4:06 |
| 22 Kathryn Donovan (Kahala LaGrange) | 4:50 |
| 23 Kristin Sanders (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 4:58 |
| 24 Teri Sheasby (Bend Bike N' Sport) | 5:09 |
| 25 Toni Bradshaw (Team Lip Smacker) | 5:50 |
| 26 Rebecca Much (Webcor Builders) | 6:10 |
| 27 Marilyn Mcdonald (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 6:18 |
| 28 Ally Stacher (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 6:22 |
| 29 Gillian Moody (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 6:52 |
| 30 Andrea Dvorak (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 7:23 |
| 31 Katheryn Mattis (Webcor Builders) | 7:32 |
| 32 Erinne Willock (Webcor Builders) | 7:44 |
| 33 Anne Samplonius (Team Lip Smacker) | 7:54 |
| 34 Alice Pennington (VELOFORMA) | 8:02 |
| 35 Erika Graves (Kahala LaGrange) | 8:03 |
| 36 Carmen Mcnellis (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 8:06 |
| 37 Anna Milkowski (DFT p/b Treads) | 8:16 |
| 38 Heather Pryor (Touchstone Climbing) | 8:25 |
| 39 Sharon Allpress (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 8:28 |
| 40 Robin Secrist (VELOFORMA) | 8:57 |
| 41 Lauren Tamayo (Team TIBCO) | 9:00 |
| 42 Lise Olivier (Tulsa Toug Racing) | 9:00 |
| 43 Gina Grain (Webcor Builders) | 9:19 |
| 44 Heather Kay (Ind) | 9:29 |
| 45 Amy Dombroski (Webcor Builders) | 9:45 |
| 46 Tina Pic (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 9:48 |
| 47 Olivia Dillon (Touchstone Climbing) | 10:17 |
| 48 Erica Zaveta (Team Group Health) | 10:31 |
| 49 Ashley Anderson (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 10:38 |
| 50 Rushlee Buchanan (Bike NZ) | 10:44 |
| 51 Kathryn Bertine (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 10:49 |
| 52 Morgan Kapp (Kahala LaGrange) | 11:10 |
| 53 Jane Robertson (Metromint Cycling) | 11:51 |
| 54 Annie Malouin (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 12:05 |
| 55 Christina Smith (VELOFORMA) | 12:11 |
| 56 Melinda Weiner (Kahala LaGrange) | 12:23 |
| 57 Emma Rickards (Team TIBCO) | 12:28 |
| 58 Tiffany Pezzulo (DFT p/b Treads) | 12:28 |
| 59 Gabriela Ferrat (VELOFORMA) | 12:37 |
| 60 Lindsay Myers (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 12:43 |
| 61 Coryn Rivera (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 12:48 |
| 62 Yukie Nakamura (Metromint Cycling) | 12:58 |
| 63 Melissa Sanborn (Vanderkitten Racing) | 13:01 |
| 64 Rachel Warner (Team Group Health) | 13:15 |
| 65 Jadine Riley (Team Group Health) | 13:46 |
| 66 Martina Patella (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 14:11 |
| 67 Amanda Miller (Team Lip Smacker) | 14:23 |
| 68 Patricia Bailey (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 14:36 |
| 69 Brei Gudsell (VELOFORMA) | 14:50 |
| 70 Tracey Jacobs (GSBoulder) | 15:06 |
| 71 Melanie Meyers (Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus) | 15:55 |
| 72 Arielle Filiberti (Team Group Health) | 16:03 |
| 73 Kelly Benjamin (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 16:14 |
| 74 Linsey Bradshaw-Sandoval (DFT p/b Treads) | 16:22 |
| 75 Amity Elliott (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 16:33 |
| 76 Heather Logan (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 17:03 |
| 77 Ambre Levy (DFT p/b Treads) | 17:04 |
| 78 Rachel Heal (Colavita Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light) | 17:20 |
| 79 Leah Guloien (Wines of Washington/bikesale.com) | 18:05 |
| 80 Hilary Billington (Team Lip Smacker) | 18:24 |
| 81 Kristina Seley (Touchstone Climbing) | 18:45 |
| 82 Kirsty Broun (Team Lip Smacker) | 18:52 |
| 83 Amanda Seigle (Metromint Cycling) | 19:42 |
| 84 Cara Gillis (Touchstone Climbing) | 19:47 |
| 85 Lauren Hall (ValueAct Capital Cycling Team) | 19:48 |
| 86 Kendall Ryan (PROMAN Hit Squad) | 21:09 |
| 87 Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1) | 21:50 |
| 88 Cara Bussell (Team Group Health) | 23:55 |
| 89 Holly Borowski (Touchstone Climbing) | 28:01 |
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