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19th International Tour De Toona -  Pennsylvania, USA

25th July - 31st July 2005

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Stage Review - Stage GMC / Pontiac Hollidaysburg Circuit Road Race  96.6km

 reproduced with kind permission from the International Tour De Toona and Mariane Werz O'Brien

Holy Breakaways, Batman! What a race! The only calm in the entire race was when the honor roll was called to bring the race luminaries to the start line. Within the first mile a brutal attack was launched by a TEAm Lipton racer, before the motos could get her number a Victory Brewing racer answered the challenge! It was attack after attack, coming with such fierce speed that the leading caravan was caught scrambling to get out of the way on several occasions! A wild, wild ride for the first five miles.

By mile eight a definitive break of nine women had snapped the elastic and left the peloton behind. Subway’s Melissa Sanborn, Ford-Basis’ rider (and Toona diarist!) Chrissie Ruitter, Quark racer Helen Kelly, Webcor’s Felicia Greer, T-Mobile’s Kori Seehafer, Squadra Coppi’s Erin Mirabella, Victory Brewing’s Amy Moore, TEAm Lipton’s Meredith Miller, and Colavita’s Catherine Powers.

These women set a smoking pace throughout the race, working well together in a double pace line. The gap hit 1’22” as they stormed the first Queen of the Mountains climb, grew to 1’35” as they cruised the rollicking descent to the start/finish line to start lap number two!

By the start of the bell lap they had 2’18” over the peloton, which was showing signs of awakening from it’s slumber.(In all fairness to the peloton these ladies were not a threat to the heads of state and nine teams were represented in the break.) There were repeated attempts from the main field in the last lap get a break and to initiate a chase, but none succeeded. And the gap kept growing, reaching three minutes at 10 k to go!

Never faltering the breakaway group kept the blistering pace up working as a single team until just before 1k to go when T-Mobile’s Kori Seehafer blasted off to a beautiful solo victory! Her break companions just didn’t have the gas left to follow her acceleration and instead they sprinted hard for second.

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Results - Stage 4  GMC / Pontiac Hollidaysburg Circuit Road Race    96.6km

Posn Name Team Time  Gap Bonus
1  Kori SEEHAFER T-Mobile 2:30:40 10  2:30:40 10
2  Amy MOORE Victory Brewing 02:30:43  @3 6
3  Catherine POWERS Colavita/Cooking Lig 4
4  Melissa SANBORN Subway      
5  Meredith MILLER Team Lipton  
6  Helen KELLY  Quark Cycling Team      
7  Erin MIRABELLA  Squadra Coppi  
8  Felicia GREER Webcor Builders Wome 02:30:54 @14
9  Chrissy RUITER  Ford-Basis  
10  Tina PIC  Quark Cycling Team 02:32:53 @ 2:13
11  Genevieve JEANSON  The Bicycle Store  
12  Christine THORBURN Webcor Builders Wome  
13  Annette BEUTLER Quark Cycling Team      
14  Kathleen BILLINGTON Diet Cheerwine Cycli  
15  Rachel HEAL  Victory Brewing      
16  Lyne BESSETTE Bianchi/GP/PCW  
17  Gina GRAIN Victory Brewing      
18  Nicole FREEDMAN Ford-Basis  
19  Kristin ARMSTRONG  T-Mobile  
20  Sue PALMER-KOMAR Colavita/Cooking Lig  
21  Erinne WILLOCK  Webcor Builders Wome  
22  Leigh HOBSON Diet Cheerwine Cycli  
23  Jennifer STEPHENSON Team Biovail      
24  Katie MACTIER T-Mobile  
25  Kimberly BALDWIN T-Mobile  
26  Mari HOLDEN  T-Mobile  
27  Lauren FRANGES  Victory Brewing      
28  Melodie METZGER Velo Bella  
29  Marina JAUANTRE MS2R - Honey Stinger  
30  Kristen LASASSO Team Lipton  
31  Magali LeFLOCH  MS2R - Honey Stinger  
32  Kristin DANIELSON  Ford-Basis  
33  Katheryn CURI Webcor Builders Wome  
34  Alisha LION  Ford-Basis  
35  Laura VANGILDER Quark Cycling Team 02:33:06 @ 2:26
36  Audrey LEMIEUX  Quark Cycling Team      
37  Merrill COLLINS Colavita/Cooking Lig  
38  Lisa VETTERLEIN Velo Girls Pro Cycli  
39  Magalie LAVIER  MS2R - Honey Stinger 02:33:11 @ 2:31
40  Natasha ELLIOTT Team Biovail 02:33:14 @ 2:34
41  Sima TRAPP Subway      
42  Allison BEALL Velo Girls Pro Cycli  
43  Magen LONG The Bicycle Store  
44  Grace FLEURY Quark Cycling Team      
45  Liza RACHETTO Team Lipton  
46  Stephanie BOURBEAU Team Biovail      
47  Sophie CREUX MS2R - Honey Stinger  
48  Megan MONROE Bianchi/GP/PCW  
49  Katharine CARROLL  Ford-Basis  
50  Katherine LAMBDEN  Team Lipton  
51  Brenda LYONS Victory Brewing      
52  Stefanie GRAETER Webcor Builders Wome  
53  Christina PEICK Colavita/Cooking Lig  
54  Kate SHERWIN Victory Brewing      
55  Kele HULSER  Ford-Basis  
56  Hiroko SHIMADA  Velo Bella  
57  Kelly BENJAMIN  The Bicycle Store  
58  Rebecca LARSON  Colavita/Cooking Lig 02:33:34 @ 2:54
59  Sherri STEDJE The Bicycle Store  
60  Pauline FRASCONE Verducci/Breakaway R  
61  Valeria SANDERS Velo Girls Pro Cycli 02:33:39 @ 2:59
62  Carla FIGUEROA  Squadra Coppi  
63  Paola MANDRINAN Team Biovail      
64  Rhonda STICKLE  Diet Cheerwine Cycli  
65  Betina HOLD  Webcor Builders Wome  
66  Aimee VASSE  Squadra Coppi  
67  Mackenzie DICKEY Team Lipton  
68  Amanda SHAW  Team Biovail      
69  Tara ROSS Diet Cheerwine Cycli 02:33:51 @ 3:11
70  Sharon ALLPRESS Velo Girls Pro Cycli  
71  Dotsie COWDEN Colavita/Cooking Lig  
72  Rebecca WELLONS Verducci/Breakaway R  
73  Jane ZIEGLER Velo Bella  
74  Pam HINTON Velo Girls Pro Cycli 02:34:04 @ 3:24
75  Elizabeth FRYE  Diet Cheerwine Cycli 02:34:12 @ 3:32
76  Becky BROEDER Bianchi/GP/PCW 02:34:14 @ 3:34
77  Mary SCHUETTE MS2R - Honey Stinger  
78  Laura BOWLES Diet Cheerwine Cycli  
79  Amanda LAWRENCE Verducci/Breakaway R  
80  Erin ALDERS  Squadra Coppi  
81  Crystal HOWARD  Subway      
82  Allie WARFEL Diet Cheerwine Cycli  
83  Candice BLICKEM Quark Cycling Team 02:34:28 @ 3:48
84  Kerry TRAYNOR Velo Girls Pro Cycli 02:34:44 @ 4:04
85  Ina-Yoko TEUTENBERG T-Mobile 02:35:06 @ 4:26
86  Brooke OURADA T-Mobile  
87  Elisa GAGNON Team Lipton 02:35:19 @ 4:39
88  Megan ELLIOT Bianchi/GP/PCW 02:36:06 @ 5:26
89  Megan ESMONDE Colavita/Cooking Lig 02:39:15 @ 8:35
90  Jennifer MAGUR  Team Biovail 02:49:09