The Sunshine Canyon Hill Climb last Saturday was won by team rider Michael Dessau (in a time of 31:46) and Team 5280 swept the Junior Men 13-14 category. Dean Haas took second 13 seconds back, and Zane Godby took third in only his second race of the season less than 3 minutes behind. Joe Haulmann came in for 7th.

The hill climb is 5.8 miles for the junior categories, with almost all of it up the steep Boulder climb. The senior categories continue on over the dirt road to the mountain town of Gold Hill. This year, Dean, Michael, and Zane all attacked the field at the very bottom of the climb (inside ¼ of a mile from the start) and rode as a group most of the way up the canyon. After Zane dropped off, Michael jumped away from Dean to score his fifth win of the season, and get revenge for losing the sprint to Dean at the Primus Mootry crit two weeks before (where Team 5280 also swept 1-2-3).

In the other categories, Team 5280 scored a win in the Junior Men 15-18 field from Yannick Eckmann (with a time of 29:44). Andrew Barker raced to a 12th place finish in the Pro-1-2 field (time of 47:07 up the full climb) and VMG/Felt rider Danny Hiller rolled a time of 55:08 to come in 15th for category 3 senior field.

Looks like Team 5280 Magazine rider Laurel Rathbun broke her recently set record by almost 30 seconds this week at Cherry Creek! Her time went from 30:03.2 to 29:37.2 on the 10-mile rolling out and back course!! Laurel’s stepping up her game for the summer races!

Looking good in the pink leader’s jersey, VMG/Felt U23 rider Danny Summerhill (left in pink) took the overall win in the 2008 Tour of the Gila yesterday. His 6th place finish in the final stage was enough to secure his final dominance in the men’s category 2 event.
Riding alongside Danny, 5280 Magazine rider Andrew Barker […]

VMG/Felt U23 rider Danny Summerhill managed to hold his own during today’s challenging stage 2 Inner Loop road race to finish 3rd on the stage. He maintained his overall lead and has 26″ on second place.
Also racing alongside Danny in the senior men’s cat 2 race was Team 5280 Magazine’s Andrew Barker and Robin […]

Race report from TJ Grove
Andrew Barker and Robin Eckmann raced men’s cat 2 and rode a very good race. Robin took one of the bonus sprints and finished 7th on the stage. They were pumped to see how well they will do for tomorrow’s two stage day.
Yannick Eckmann and Danny Hiller raced men’s cat […]

This week, 5280 Magazine’s Laurel Rathbun broke the Junior Women’s 10-12 record at the Cherry Creek Time Trial series. The previous record holder was none other than our own Danielle Haulman! Laurel broke Danielle’s record by 3 seconds, and beat the 2nd place rider by 5 ½ minutes with a time of 30:03.2.
Congratulations […]

This Wednesday, two of our junior racers broke the records in their respective categories during Colorado’s Cherry Creek time trial series. Danielle Haulman broke the previous record for Junior Women 17-18 by posting a time of 25:44.9, and Andrew Barker broke the old record for Junior Men 17-18 with a time of 22:16.0.
The […]

Special race report from 5280 Magazine rider Dean Haas
Okay so here’s how it went at the Vuelta a Bosque down in New Mexico for the Junior Men 13-14. The time trial was out by the Albuquerque airport. We did 7 miles and we were the youngest group to do that much. All the younger kids […]