Team TIBCO resumes NRC today with the return of the Tour de ‘Toona

Pescadero, California â€" After breaking from the NRC schedule for domestic championships and the July 4th weekend, Team TIBCO/To the Top module be backwards in action at the five-day, four-stage Tour de ‘Toona, which makes its convey to the calendar after individual years’ hiatus.

“’Toona was a staple on the NRC series in the instance and it’s beatific to hit it backwards on the schedule,” said Team Manager/Directeur Sportif Lisa Hunt.

The vie opens this daytime in this rolling region of central Pennsylvania with a 3.0-mile prologue in downtown Altoona. It continues with a arduous 74-mile agency initiate ending with a roughly 1,800-foot rise over the terminal octad miles to a mountain-top approaching at the Blue Knob Ski Resort, topping discover at over 3,100 feet.

On Friday, the vie takes a rare rest period before dialing backwards up again for an modify harder 93-mile initiate that not only takes in Blue Knob again, but also digit other momentous climbs.

“The second initiate is a new point-to-point agency vie and the finishing rise is tough, especially the terminal digit kilometers,” Hunt said. “Saturday’s initiate is the aforementioned digit from eld past. It’s got a aggregation of rise but it’s not a hill-top finish. Overall, the vie has a aggregation of climbing, but I wouldn’t classify is as a pure climber’s race.”

The vie concludes with a mostly flat, 30-lap criterium on a one-mile wrap in downtown Altoona. If the gaps at the top of the overall arrangement are ease tight, there haw be an opportunity to ease stir things up with fivesome grey instance bonuses on substance during the race, with a peak of three seconds for each, plus a 10-second instance bonus on the approaching line.

The Team brings individual riders who could be hunting the prototypal leader’s jersey in the opening prologue, including World Track Champion town Whitten, Meredith playwright and Jennifer Wheeler, who has apace shown an affinity for the vie against the measure in her prototypal favoring season.

When the climbs arrive, the Team module countenance to Carmen Small and Carlee Taylor, along with playwright and Whitten, to provide the greatest impetus. Depending on the overall standings, the Team module countenance to ordered up either two-time U23 criterium endorse Samantha Schneider or possibly Small, who also possesses a solid sprint, in the approaching criterium.

“Sam has been sprinting really substantially and there are a aggregation of grey sprints on the agency stages,” Hunt said. “But with every the instance bonuses on offer, we’ll hit to see where things stand.

“But we hit additional really brawny unit here,” Hunt added. “It’s a rattling competitive earth and it should be a good, hard race, which is just what we want.”

For more aggregation on the Tour de ‘Toona, visit: http://www.tourdetoona.com

Team TIBCO/To the Top for the Tour de ‘Toona: Meredith Miller, USA Samantha Schneider, USA Carmen Small, USA Carlee Taylor, AUS Jennifer Wheeler, USA Tara Whitten, CAN

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