There was a good crowd for Stage 5 of the race. A couple of hundred fans were lined up about 1km from the finish at Tejon & Cache la Poudre. I hear there were thousands more at the finish, but this location was only a block from where I parked and that influenced my decision of where to shoot greatly.
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| The cyclists are preceded by motorcycles and cars. Motorcycles and cars going really, really fast! |
The bikes raced in from the Garden of the Gods and did three circuits of downtown, finishing near Tejon and Colorado. It was lightly raining so the riders were a bit cautious around the corners, but really opened it up as soon as they straightened out.
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| Here they come! Team BMC leading out Tejay van Garderen in the yellow jersey. |
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| And there they go, followed by many, many support vehicles. |
Each lap took a couple of minutes and the peloton came together in the 2nd circuit.
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| Protect the leader and set up your sprinters. |
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| Stage winner, Garmin's Tyler Farrar, 1st blue jersey on the right, setting up for the sprint finish. |
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| The peloton races down Tejon St. under the 1km kite. |
They came around the 3rd time, and that was that.
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| Lots of cowbell for less that a minute of action. |
But I did get to see last year's Tour de France winner, Cadel Evans chatting with teammate Ivan Santaromita, slowly pedal by well after the peloton raced for the finish.
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| 'Hey. You know it's way less tiring when you go slow.' |
Thanks boys! It was fun. Short. But fun.
