Coached by Bill Brunner.
Vishwesh
Arya, Team Giant India, won the Second Annual Gonikoppa Independence Day U19
Race.
Vishwesh
reports: “The race started off in the center of the city and after a few
hundred meters in some thick traffic inside the city the race took a left hand
turn and headed into rural rolling roads. After about 3 kilometers I attacked
and broke away with another rider (Tharun Shiv from Team Cyclopedia) on a
slight uphill. Right after that short hill there was a very hard headwind
for a few kilometers and a few riders were catching up to us, so I decided to
dig a bit hard and we got a significant gap of about 30 seconds which started
to increase. After about 15 kilometers into the race we decided to recover a
bit and both of us took equal turns on the front. The terrains was quite hilly,
with short climbs every 200-300 meters.
At
25 km mark there was a long not so steep climb where I went to the front and
upped the pace and could hear Tharun panting and decided to attack on the next
climb. Unfortunately after a kilometer of descent we were back in the city and
the finish was just about 500 meters away. We took a left hander and hit the
main road where there was a bunch of cars stuck in a traffic jam. I went from
the left and he went around on the right side, the traffic cleared just as we
came through and I started my sprint as the finish was only about 200-250
meters away. He reacted a late and I got a gap of 20 meters and before he could
catch up I crossed the finish line.”
Well
done.
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