Michael Stone Cycling: Ga RR State Championships (New Jr. State Champ)

U23 Cyclist Racing for Hincapie Development team

Ga RR State Championships (New Jr. State Champ)

This weekend was a good one, the State Championships was on the calendar. I didn’t go into this race very rested, was still excited about it. I decided to do the Jrs; the field was a good one. My main competition was the Fulton Flyers, Matt Lipscomb’s team. My plan was to get in a break with Matt and bring it to a two up sprint. We rolled out hot at 12:05, it was pretty uneventful for the fist 15 miles, and then the hills came. Matt attacked a hill like it was the last hill of the race, I jumped on his wheel and we were gone, I turned around to see the field Exploded on the stair step climb. We got a pretty good gap and then went out of sight. From then on we tapped out a sick rhythm, the official came up and told us we had 9min… we were gone… we eventually caught the field that started ahead of us…10min ahead of us! Before I knew it there was 1k to go, I was glued to Matt’s wheel and just waited for the move… it came at about 200m to go, I was able to come around at the end for the win. We ended up adv 24.5mph on this very hilly course. It was a great race!! Congrats to Matt, new 15-16 State Champ!!

New Jr. State Champion (17-18 Podium)