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[wayne's world]

Christoff Van Heerden came in 2nd at the Time trial at the start of the tour of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this morning. This afternoon sees our team battling it out in the criterium against against some of the hottest u25's in the world in the inaugural event.

[Witrot]

Well done Christoff!!

[matie]

with no time trial equipment??

 

impressive!

[Sammajoor]

mooi so handsome  wys almal wat jy kan doen

[wayne's world]

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Christoff Van Heerden came in 2nd at the Time trial at the start of the tour of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this morning. This afternoon sees our team battling it out in the criterium against against some of the hottest u25's in the world in the inaugural event.

Correction to my earlier post-Christoff came in 3rd, Pieter Seyffert, a  respectable 11th.

[snah2]

Christoff second in yesterday"s stage as well!Really riding well!

Seems as if the rest of the KM squad lost out on the main break of the day..

[Road Warrior]

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Christoff second in yesterday"s stage as well!Really riding well!

Seems as if the rest of the KM squad lost out on the main break of the day..

 

Pieter Seyffert was in the chasing bunch 1min behind the first 15 guys. Today is a really hard stage with two climbs of about 5 km each.

[Road Warrior]

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Stage 3 from Camp hill to Bedford, the longest stage of the tour and the toughest with both a category one & two climb midway through the stage. Strong wind and rain threatened the international field at the start line; however conditions cleared up just before the start. Konica Minolta rode aggressively from the outset with Herman Fouche taking the first sprint hotspot. At the 26km mark. A short while later Peter Seyffert (Konica Minolta) escaped with a small breakaway group of seven riders Peter took the second hotspot of the day before the group was reeled in by the peloton at the beginning of the first big climb of the day. Stetina (VNG Felt) put in a truly valiant effort escaping on the first big climb with more than 60 kilometres to go. Although gaining more than 4 min his solo escape caught with only 100m to go.

Another tough but short stage lies ahead of the team. Stage 4 is from Bedford to Latrobe and contains both a cat 1 & cat 2 climb. "I'm feeling confident ahead of the stage" Said team manager John Robertson. "The team did a great job today, the team is riding as a unit and it's showing in the results.

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As of end of Stage 3

PLACE	LAST	FIRST	BIB	TEAM	TIME	TIME BEHIND
1	VAN VOOREN	Steven	26	Johan Bruyneel Cycling Acade	8:48:04	0:00:00
2	LACOMBE	Keven	74	Kelly Benefit/Medifast	8:48:07	0:00:03
3	VAN HEERDEN	Christoff	65	Konica Minolta	8:48:08	0:00:04
4	VEILLEUX	David	71	Kelly Benefit/Medifast	8:48:09	0:00:05
5	BARBERI	Stefano	121	ZTeaM	8:48:14	0:00:10
6	GERRITS	Adrian	115	VRC: NOW-MS Society	8:48:17	0:00:13
7	AGUERO	Gaston	1	Esco-Telefonicos Argentina	8:48:18	0:00:14
8	STETINA	Peter	136	VMG/Felt	8:48:18	0:00:14
9	POOL	Aaron	24	Johan Bruyneel Cycling Acade	8:48:18	0:00:14
10	BOYD	Alex	94	Waste Management/Racelab	8:48:19	0:00:15
11	SALON	Peter	134	VMG/Felt	8:48:21	0:00:17
12	LUYT	Dennis	55	Global Cycling	8:48:29	0:00:25
13	JENKINS	Max	103	CA Giant Berry/Specialized	8:48:30	0:00:26
14	MARZOT	Charles	141	Fiordifrutta Cycling Team	8:48:36	0:00:32
15	FAIRLY	Caleb	132	VMG/Felt	8:49:23	0:01:19
16	WELCH	Alex	112	VRC: NOW-MS Society	8:49:30	0:01:26
17	GAIMON	Phil	144	Fiordifrutta Cycling Team	8:49:32	0:01:28
18	PLAICE	Keir	31	Team RACE Pro	8:49:35	0:01:31
19	SEYFFERT	Pieter	63	Konica Minolta	8:49:39	0:01:35
20	NEWELL	Dylan	12	Praties Cycling Team	8:51:06	0:03:02

[Peet]

Christoff now leads Tour of Pen, only one day to go!

[Mercx]

Awesome news! Good luck to him!

[Road Warrior]

Actually two more stages, today and tomorrow.

He also has the points jersey and the team seems to be getting stronger every day.They will have their work cut out for them tough to control the race with strong opposition and only a 1 sec lead.

[pedal]

The Team are really committed to keeping the jersey, so lets hold thumbs that their hard work pays off.  Yesterday was the shortest but hardest day, and they secured yellow.......  todays stage will be over by now, and I am eagerly awaiting the results. (6 hours behind, so check in the am).

Well done to each KM rider, you have flown our SA Flag with pride.

5 SA riders in the top 35!!!!  great going.

PS.... Happy Birthday Pedal Junior. xxxxx

[turtlek]

stof contacted me and has said he is feeling strong and the team is super positive about the win so lets all hope the positivity is a good thing

[snah2]

I see he lost the yellow jersey....1 second down with one stage to go...

[Road Warrior]

The team did a great job controlling the race for most of the stage but unfortunately miss-calculated the number of laps when they came into town for the last few km's and Christoff sat up as they came to the finish line. Two riders saw the opportunity to jump away and with only 1 km to go build a few seconds lead on the bunch who finished 6 sec behind.Christoff now in 2nd position 5 sec behind.Pieter Seyffert moved into 16th position, Fouche in 23rd, Allan is 26th and Van Niekerk 30th.

[pedal]

Christoff also had the misfortune of a puncture... but they never gave up.

Well done guys, and heres to a safe crit ride today.