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Former Triathlete Wins First Monumental Memorial Cycling Weekend Print E-mail
Written by Sean Weide   
Monday, 29 May 2006

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Sharp dressed man Jon Randall takes stage 4! Photo: Mike Madcharo
 

Beatrice, Neb. – Lincoln’s Jon Randall of Lincoln Plating-Lemond won the final stage of the inaugural Monumental Memorial Cycling Weekend as Micheal Grabinger of Spearfish, S.D., took the overall victory.

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Micheal Grabinger takes GC. Photo John Peterson
Grabinger, riding for Team Fresh Start, finished sixth in Monday’s Industrial Row criterium. An accomplished triathlete who is only a Category III racer, Grabinger won two of the race’s four stages. His victory in Sunday morning’s 20-mile time trial lifted him into the overall lead, which he added to with a victory in the late afternoon 52-mile road race.

“That’s the toughest day I’ve ever had in cycling,” Grabinger said. “I am kind of new at this, but I’ve never been in a race with winds like that. It was pretty brutal.”

The strong, steady winds that had plagued competitors in the race’s first two days subsided somewhat on Monday, though temperatures still reached into the low 90s.

Daniel Casper of Northfield, Minn., riding for GrandStay/Out N About Gear, finished second overall. Randall was third, 55 seconds behind Grabinger. The pair were part of a five-man breakaway that put more than seven minutes on the field in Sunday’s road race.

The overall standings remained unchanged after Monday’s criterium, despite aggressive racing by Team Kaos, which had three riders in the top 10 – but none in the top five - after a disasterous day on Sunday.

Kaos team leader Jarred Berger, the favorite to win the time trial, flatted at the turnaround point, then blew another tire in the road race and did not make the crucial break.

Feeling secure with his 36-second lead over second place, Grabinger said he set out with a different kind of motivation for the 75-minute criterium.

“There were a few other people who were with me in the break yesterday who did a lot of work and I wanted to help them out,” Grabinger said. “I had hoped to give them a good lead out for a time bonus, but unfortunately it didn’t work out.”

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Sone and Chaffin at the finish. Photo: Mike Madcharo
Instead, it was the blue-and-white jerseys of Lincoln Plating-Lemond which were able to spring Randell for the win.

“I just wanted to be up front to be ready for an overall G.C. place, but then things opened up, so I just went for it,” Randell said.

In the women’s race, Linda Sone of Silver Cycling/Hollywood Racing teamed up with Team Kaos’ Morgan Chaffin to erase an eight-second deficit on Team Giant/Black Hills Domestiques’ Betsy Cordes and steal the overall with a victory in the 30-minute criterium.

With less than five laps remaining, Chaffin attacked and Sone followed. The two worked together to quickly build a 10-second lead that they stretched to 25 seconds by the finish. That advantage, plus a 10-second time bonus for the win, helped Sone beat Cordes by 27 seconds in the final standings.

Complete Results and GC

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Results 

 

 

Mens 1,2,3

 
GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time
1 Micheal Grabinger Team Fresh Start Spearfish, SD 8:16:22
2 Daniel Casper GrandStay/ Out N About Gear Northfield, MN 8:16:58
3 Jon Randell Lincoln Plating Lemond Omaha, NE 8:17:17
4 Daniel Nemetchek Team Manitoba/ Woodcock Cycle Winnipeg, MB 8:19:19
5 Andrew Minier Nature Valley/Penn Cycle Anoka, MN 8:19:24
6 Jarred Berger Team Kaos Cycling Lincoln, NE 8:26:55
7 Chris Spence Team Kaos Cycling Omaha, NE 8:27:27
8 Tim Farnham Team Kaos Cycling Lincoln, NE 8:29:09
9 Marc Walter Lincoln Plating/Lemond Lincoln, NE 8:29:23
10 Michael Munson Lincoln Plating/Lemond Omaha, NE 8:29:27
11 Jeremy Reimer Lincoln Plating/Lemond Mccook Lake, SD 8:30:05
12 Joseph McWilliams Team Kaos Cycling Lincoln, NE 8:30:48
13 Bowen Neuhofer Team Manitoba/ Woodcock Cycle Winnipeg, MB 8:31:21
14 Matt Williams GrandStay/ Out N About Gear Sartell, MN 8:33:50
15 Kevin Burke Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC Lincoln, NE 8:34:07
16 Troy Krause Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC Lincoln, NE 8:36:30
17 Dan Swanson Nature Valley/Penn Cycle Plymouth, MN 8:36:39
18 Corey Whalen Team Fresh Start Gillette, WY 8:58:38
19 Kent Throlson Great Plains Cycling Fargo, ND 9:02:37
20 Ian Robertson Team Kaos Cycling Lincoln, NE 9:02:47
21 Mike Schroden GrandStay/ Out N About Gear St. Cloud, MN 9:02:58
 

 

Women

 

GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time
1 Linda Sone Silver Cycling Hollywood Racing Northfield, MN 7:31:57
2 Betsy Cordes Team Giant/Black Hills Domestiques Spearfish, SD 7:32:24
3 Morgan Chaffin Team Kaos Omaha, NE 7:49:58
4 Barbara Harick VeloBellaKona Minneapolis, MN 7:57:44
5 Lindsay Argue (JR) Alter Ego Winnipeg, MB 8:09:59
6 Angela Axmann Team Fresh Start Spearfish, SD 8:23:39
7 Dawn McPherson Defined Fitness Training, LLC Kansas City, MO 8:23:48
8 Emily Farnham Team Kaos Lincoln, NE 8:42:32
 

 

 

Masters 35+

 

GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time
1 James Berry FreshStart Lead, SD 7:30:22
2 Jeff Luedtke Husker Road Club Omaha, NE 7:35:36
3 Craig Schmidt Lincoln Plating-Lemond Lincoln, NE 7:40:27
4 Todd Nesvold MCTTonkaCycle Forest Lake, MN 7:40:51
5 Mark Mettler Minnesota Cycling Team Minnetonka, MN 7:42:02
 

 

 

Mens 4

 

GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time
1 Nathanael Elmer Ciao Baby Cycling Lincoln, NE 7:16:07
2 Devin Bethune Elkhorn Valley Race Team Carroll, NE 7:17:37
3 Zach Rogers Blue River Bicycle Club Kansas City, MO 7:19:42
4 Ian Gray UNL Cycling Lincoln, NE 7:19:54
5 Jason Doverspike Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle Swan River, MB 7:25:40
6 Jay Foss Team Fresh Start Spearfish, SD 7:28:53
7 Marshall Verbrugge Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle Winnipeg, MB 7:30:08
8 Kurt Muehlebach GP Velotek Kansas City, MO 7:30:54
9 Bradley Sullivan unattached Manhattan, KS 7:32:50
10 Don Raskey GDI Lincoln, NE 7:33:51
11 Tj Carmichael Slimenundgrossen/Trek Of KC Lincoln, NE 7:34:49
12 Daniel Peters Team Manitoba/Woodcock Cycle Winnipeg, MB 7:38:27
13 Duane Blair Elkhorn Valley Race Team Norfolk, NE 7:39:35
14 Chet Henry UNL Cycling Daykin, NE 7:45:18
15 Al Provorse UNL Cycling Lincoln, NE 7:50:38
16 Paul Mueller ICCC Saint Louis, MO 7:50:54
17 Charles Daniel Ciao Baby Cycling Lincoln, NE 7:53:22
18 James Buckley unattached Bellevue, NE 7:55:27
19 Tom Nider Ciao Baby Cycling Lincoln, NE 7:56:38
20 Scott Kiddoo Ciao Baby Cycling Lincoln, NE 8:01:59
21 Joseph Savoie Team Kaos Omaha, NE 8:10:40
22 John Hanson Great Plains Cycling Moorhead, MN 8:15:35
 

 

 

Mens 5

 

GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time
1 Michael Kosco unatttached Bellevue, NE 7:35:53
2 Scott Blair Elkhorn Valley Cycling Pierce, NE 7:36:04
3 Rich Anderson The Bike Way Racing Omaha, NE 7:39:56
4 Cody Cleveland Elkhorn Valley Cycling Club Norfolk, NE 7:54:13
5 Gary Nebeker TeamFIRE Lincoln, NE 7:54:56
6 Aaron Gammel TeamFire Lincoln, NE 8:20:59
 

 

 

Masters Mens 45+

 

GC Place Name Team City, State GC Time