Le Tour de Mont Pleasant

Photo: Central Michigan Life

MICHIGAN: Mount Pleasant - RESULTS PHOTOS - The 5th annual Tour de Mont Pleasant featuring a total purse of $18,000 over 3 days! Paul Martin (Panther) scorched the opening Time Trial, but it was 44 year old Kirk Albers from Upper Arlington, OH who sealed the deal and won both the 107 mile road race on Saturday and the closing criterium on Sunday. From Central Michigan Life:
"A 107-mile road race on Saturday gave pro riders a chance to prove themselves in the longest of the three professional cyclist races.
“It was a long race,” Kirk Albers said. “Second place and I, we’re both cramping really bad. It was quite difficult the last 200 yards.”
Albers, 44, from Columbus, Ohio, finished first in the road race, racing with three other teammates. Albers has been racing for 27 years and has competed in more than 2,000 races, and this was his third year racing in Mount Pleasant.
“It’s really nice since the last two years we’ve come up here as a team,” Albers said. “We won the criterium the last two years, but the road race, which has traditionally been on Sunday, has not gone very well for us. It was nice to have things fall into place and to be able to win the race.”
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Men - PRO/1/2  107 mile RR
	Place		Name	City, State	Time		Bib	Team
	1		Kirk Albers (1 - Cat1)	Upper Arlington, OH	3:56:42.01		102	Panther-Bakehouse
	2		Michael Anderson (1 - Cat2)	Alpena, MI	3:56:42.08		103	ICC BISSELL-ABG-GIANT-BISSELL-A
	3		Alexey Vermeulen (2 - Cat1)	Pinckney, MI	3:57:09.23		121	BMC Development Team

Women - PRO/1/2
	Place		Name	City, State	Time		Bib	Team
	1		Kayla Starr (1 - Cat2)	Lancaster, OH	2:12:19.52		202	Queen City Wheels
	2		Zoe Reeves (2 - Cat2)	Grand Rapids, MI	2:12:19.53		201	Einstein Racing
	3		Sarah Demerly (3 - Cat2)	Berkley, MI	2:12:19.63		200	Cleveland Clinic Sports Health