{"id":868,"date":"2011-02-02T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/fv\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:20:07","slug":"floridavelo-wins-the-tour-of-the-bahamas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"FloridaVelo wins the Tour of the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Pablo, Mark, Andy, Jimmy, and John for great performances at the Tour of the Bahamas.\u00a0 The team won\u00a02 out of 3 GCs – 1st in 40+, 1st in 50+, and\u00a011th\u00a0& 15th in PRO12s – awesome start of the season!<\/p>\n

Masters 40+:\u00a0\u00a0Andy was 16 seconds and Pablo was 30 seconds behind the leader after the time trial; the team went on an attacking mode winning all time bonuses, but was unable to place Andy in any breakaway. With 12 miles to go on the last stage on Sunday,\u00a0the leaders and pack allowed Pablo and Mark Holowesko to open a good gap turning all strategies upside down.\u00a0\u00a0Andy and Mark\u00a0started to control the pack, allowing Pablo to win the stage by 35 seconds and clinching the GC by 5 seconds –\u00a0FV’s spirit and extra degree were the talk of the event after this team effort!<\/p>\n

Masters 50+:\u00a0\u00a0Mark was 3 seconds behind the leader after the\u00a0time trial;\u00a0we were fortunate to a have a\u00a0combined field to help Mark win the circuit stage, win all time bonuses, take 2nd in the road race clinching the GC by\u00a05 seconds!<\/p>\n

PRO12s: Jimmy and John had impressive time trials with 6:00 and 5:54 minutes, not far off from\u00a0the PRO’s best time of 5:43 this year, Dave Zabriskie’s 5:26 in 2008, and Floyd Landis’s 5:49 in 2010.\u00a0 The team worked well launching with 1 lap to go in the circuit race\u00a0the move that brought back the breakaway and allowed Jimmy to lead out John for a phenomenal 2nd place.\u00a0John and Jimmy raced a superb road race but were outnumbered 4-1\u00a0by each team,\u00a0and as the raced broke up in five packs, they managed great finishes placing them\u00a011th and 15th in the GC!<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Pablo, Mark, Andy, Jimmy, and John for great performances at the Tour of the Bahamas.\u00a0 The team won\u00a02 out of 3 GCs – 1st in 40+, 1st in 50+, and\u00a011th\u00a0& 15th in PRO12s – awesome start of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridavelo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}