Tour of Ohio Stage 5: Another Day

Seth here, from the Tour of Ohio's final [what was supposed to be] selective day.

Well, I tried my little heart out, but, quite honestly, today's profile just wasn't difficult enough. There was only one hill on the 11-mile loop, and it was a short big-ringer that wasn't difficult enough to cause a split in the field.

Early on, I was active trying to get in a small group if one would be let off. Scholzen and I were actually in three separate little moves together in the first two circuits, but it soon became obvious this was to be a bunch sprint. Since the hill was a smallish power climb (1/3 of a mile, not crazy steep, as advertised), it wasn't my terrain for a sprint for climber's points either, and I was stagnant in that competition.

We'll see official results later, but, due to this, I may have dropped in the KOM competition. That's too bad, since the KOMs were like just slightly uphill sprints today. Things are pretty much set too, as tomorrow is just a short, little twilight criterium to close things out. So long as I don't crash, I think I'll be 67th in GC, 6th in KOM, 5th in White Jersey, and gutsiest friggin' 21-year-old out there (who else went on a 55-mile break with Hekman and Swain on the queen stage)?

Thanks for support, reading. Final report and results tomorrow from my first pro-am stage race!