Cascade Classic Stage 4

Road Race, 84 miles. Average speed of winner: 25.5 mph

Another long hot day. This stage started with a 15 mile, 3,500 foot climb, followed by a long fast descent, then gentle rollers until the final climb up to Mt Bachelor ski resort. The first climb seemed easy enough at the base, but the pace was unrelenting and by the summit the pack of 154 riders had shattered into many smaller groups. Lunning and Tuttle made it over close enough to the front to rejoin the leaders on the descent. The pace was steady 30mph all the way to the final climb, where it exploded again. Lunning made it to the finish about a minute behind the winner, and Tuttle was about 2 minutes back in another group. Turner struggled over the first climb and ended up riding the rest of the day with one other rider working hard to limit his time loss, finishing about 25 minutes back, but still in the race.