Continuing his great road race
season, Jake Allegrini podiumed with a 3rd place overall at the Green Mountain
Stage Race this past weekend in the Cat 4/5 Masters. With four stages in four days, the Green
Mountain Stage Race is the largest Pro/AM stage race east of the Mississippi!
Day 1 was the 5.7m TT, where Jake
finished 37secs back in 6th place, ready to pounce the next day at the 53mile
circuit race. Despite only having one
teammate up against the race leader's 6 teammates, Jake took the sprint and
valuable bonus seconds to move into 3rd overall after day 2.
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Jake Allegrini taking the circuit race win for Nantucket Velo
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Day 3 was the queen stage of the race, the Mad River Road Race, 70miles and 3235ft of vertical gain, including the finishing climb up App Gap! Riding in the Sprint leaders jersey, it was a cat and mouse game all day long as the leaders were all waiting for the finishing climb, a category 2 ball buster. By the time the leaders hit the climb it was everyman for himself and Jake ultimately finished 2nd on the day and moved another step up the podium to 2nd overall, 60secs behind the leader.
The
final criterium on Day 4 was going to be tough with the dominate team of the
leader being able to control the race and even sending one of their teammates
up the road with a substantial gap by the end of the race. Jake and his
solitary Nantucket
Velo teammate, ensured that a
top 3 spot was secured and ended the day just 56secs back from the overall win
and 24secs from 2nd.
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| 3rd Place overall at GMSR for Jake Allegrini |
For just his first
season in road racing, Jake is now on the verge of a Cat 3 upgrade and has won
two races out of just six that he has entered! Now cross season
approaches.......
