Jens Brabbit leads eventual race winner Adam Bergman through the turn during an earlier unsuccessful breakaway effort during Sunday’s Grandstay Criterium in St. Cloud. - photo by Andy Frye
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The circle was unbroken as St. Cloud’s Granite City Days anchored the Granstay Criterium in a new location for 2008. The new course was a short loop around St. Cloud Tech High School and featured a tight, challenging final turn and made for some fast and exciting racing on Sunday.
It was a weekend of strong performances by Pat Lemieux of SPBRC/GP. Lemieux soloed to victory on Saturday at the Birchwood Road Race and was aggressive throughout the Grandstay Criterium on Sunday in St. Cloud. Lemieux teamed with Adam Bergman of Texas Roadhouse in a late breakaway that gained a lap on the field but was unable to hold off Bergman in the closing sprint and finished second.
Bergman was the aggressor on the day having been in an earlier unsuccessful break attempt with other members of his former team, SPBRC/GP. With windy conditions and a large peleton, the long breakaway was a longshot and when the Grandstay Team moved to the front to bring the race back the chase was on and things came back together.
Bergman remained aggressive throughout and joined another decisive move later with several others including Lemieux. Bergman and Lemieux separated themselves from that breakaway group to duke things out after lapping the field with Bergman taking the victory.
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More Granstay Crit photos by Frye
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