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Daniel Munoz rides singletrack during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct.
Courtesy Devon Balet, Breck Epic
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A mountain biker rides singletrack during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct.
Courtesy Devon Balet, Breck Epic
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Second-place pro cyclist Russell Finsterwald rides amond the Rocky Mountain wildflowers during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct.
Courtesy Liam Doran, Breck Epic
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A mountain biker rides during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct, Mounts Guyot and Baldy in view in the background.
Courtesy Devon Balet, Breck Epic
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Women’s professional race leader Katerina Nash rides through a puddle during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct.
Courtesy Liam Doran, Breck Epic
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Mountain bikers ride past deadfall at timberline during the fourth stage of this year’s 6-day Breck Epic mountain bike race, the 41-mile Aqueduct, the Tenmile Range in view in the background.
Courtesy Devon Balet, Breck Epic
BRECKENRIDGE — Make it four-for-four for Keegan Swenson and Katerina Nash. The top professional cyclists at this year’s Breck Epic stage mountain bike race each won their fourth stage in four days — the Aqueduct in the backcountry between Breckenridge and Keystone — to maintain their leads with two stages remaining in the six-day race.
Swenson’s Stage 4 time of 3 minutes, 11 seconds and 39 seconds was just under five minutes ahead of overall second-place racer Russell Finsterwald. Finsterwald completed the 41.2-mile, 6,473-foot elevation gain stage in 03:16:10.04, the seventh-fastest time of the day in the elite men’s Union Cycliste Internationale division. Through four of six days, Finsterwald trails Swenson by 11 minutes and is 7 1/2 minutes ahead of overall third-place rider Nash Dory, who took fourth place on the stage.
Entering Thursday’s Wheeler stage, the top 3 overall men’s riders clock in at 12:18:23.65 (Swenson), 12:29:25.04 (Finsterwald) and 12:36:54.81 (Dory). The top 3 men’s riders for Stage 4 were Swenson, Luis Mejia (12:38:39.07 overall, 03:12:32.72 Stage 4) and Richard Cypress Gorry (12:38:35.78, 03:12:48.63).
In the women’s race, the top 3 overall women also went 1-2-3 on Wednesday. Nash’s Stage 4 time of 03:54:43.72 was just under 90 seconds ahead of Hannah Finchamp’s time of 03:56:10.35. Heading into the 24-mile, 5,227-foot elevation gain Wheeler stage Thursday, it appears to be a two-woman race between the CLIF pro team cyclists, as Finchamp is back seven minutes and 16 seconds.
Evelyn Dong, who is 32 minutes back of Nash, joined them on the podium with a Stage 4 time just more than four hours.
Thursday’s Wheeler stage will take the more than 400 mountain bikers to the heights of the Tenmile Range, steeply ascending and descending Wheeler Pass between Peaks 8 and 9 before riding the Copper Mountain Resort side of the range to the turnaround point on the Peaks Trail in the backcountry outside Frisco.
Stage 4, Wednesday
Aqueduct
41.2 miles, 6,473-foot elevation gain
Total time followed by Stage-4 time
Union Cycliste Internationale men
1. Keegan Swenson, 12:18:23.65, 03:11:39.36
2. Russell Finsterwald, 12:29:25.05, 03:16:10.04
3. Nash Dory, 12:36:54.81, 03:13:35.57
Union Cycliste Internationale women
1. Katerina Nash, 15:19:01.06, 03:54:43.72
2. Hannah Finchamp, 15:26:17.27, 03:56:10.35
3. Evelyn Dong, 15:51:04.29, 04:00:34.10
6-day solo men 19+ pro-1
1. Wes Rassmussen, 14:31:24.56, 03:38:39.93
2. Juan Cordova, 14:34:04.26, 03:48:23.54
3. Pablo Cruz, 14:41:26.43, 03:43:21.98
6-day solo women 19+ pro-1
1. Jenna Downey, 19:07:17.94, 04:50:56.68
2. Ro Mayberry, 19:30:21.91, 04:47:31.46
3. Romany McNamara, 21:26:40.85, 05:21:02.85
6-day solo singlespeed men open
1. Jorge Brito, 15:23:14.51, 03:54:57.70
2. Dahn Pahrs, 16:22:32.99, 04:09:26.49
3. Regis Ricketts, 17:13:09.99, 04:23:26.54
6-day solo singlespeed women open
1. Collen O’Neil, 21:17:22.02, 05:23:15.83
2. Jessica Nelson, 23:35:45.32, 06:03:31.51
6-day solo men 30+ category 1
1. Ciro Zarate, 14:54:36.43, 03:52:59.19
2. Daniel Munoz, 14:57:58.10, 03:42:17.25
3. Alister Ratcliff, 15:10:23.65, 03:48:25.74
6-day solo men 40+ category 1
1. Ryan Dahl, 14:42:16.63, 03:46:50.22
2. Felix Camire, 14:50:00.26, 03:43:32.89
3. Simon Dove, 14:53:54.23, 03:47:37.37
6-day solo men 50+ category 1
1. Matt Woodruff, 15:46:03.70, 04:01:01.99
2. Lorenzo Milesi, 16:34:55.16, 04:14:12.32
3. Peter Davis, 17:10:39.66, 04:32:50.06
6-day solo men 30+ category 2-3
1. Fausto Molina, 15:46:29.77, 03:54:58.91
2. Diego Reyes, 15:48:19.06, 04:02:48.79
3. Bernardo Vintimilla, 15:50:16.78, 03:50:36.80
6-day solo men 40+ category 2-3
1. Kris Hendricks, 15:49:47.45, 04:04:29.13
2. Juan Diego Mejia Vallejo, 16:02:42.81, 04:07:19.75
3. Tim Peeters, 17:04:42.55, 04:19:09.91
6-day solo men 60+ category 1-2-3
1. Russ Asleson, 18:03:43.32, 04:37:08.99
2. Kevin Malone, 19:27:45.28, 05:06:14.04
3. Larry DeWitt, 19:34:54.17, 04:59:47.96
6-day solo clydesdale open
1. Christian Hon, 18:49:34.77, 04:43:37.22
2. Ryan Knoche, 19:12:25.07, 04:49:21.49
3. Arthur Elmer, 19:22:48.69, 04:24:12.38
6-day solo women 19+ category 2-3
1. Gabriela Loaiza, 22:07:22.08, 05:36:22.99
2. Janelle Brown, 22:32:05.87, 05:20:42.59
3. Beth Steen, 23:28:37.59, 06:05:51.58
6-day solo women 40+ category 1-2-3
1. Tracy Paradise, 18:24:15.32, 04:42:03.61
2. Shelley Peachell, 18:57:59.75, 04:47:52.45
3. Echo Rowe, 19:45:32.47, 05:11:19.76
6-day solo women 50+ category 1-2-3
1. Tamara Tabeek, 21:06:27.54, 05:28:54.88
2. Heidi Coulter, 21:50:38.07, 05:28:54:54.13
3. Kim Bear, 23:26:53.83, 06:00:03.06
6-day duo open men pro 1-2-3
1. Nunez-Garrett, 16:04:48.11, 04:04:18.37
2. Barnett-Quattlebaum, 16:29:36.40, 04:12:12.14
3. Rider-Kettrick, 16:58:33.68, 04:18:41.78
6-day duo open men 80+ pro 1-2-3
1. Stefko-Porter, 15:59:55.87, 04:05:38.90
2. Lofgren-Diehl, 16:28:14.46, 04:09:27.22
3. De Bakker-Houben, 16:50:43.63, 04:18:22.78
6-day duo coed pro 1-2-3
1. Franco-Carrington, 18:42:36.66, 04:47:02.75
2. Ibanez-Rodriguez, 20:42:18.13, 05:15:17.53
3. Stockton-Scholtz, 20:49:14.40, 05:18:39.28
6-day duo open women pro 1-2-3
1. Hibbitts-Graziosi, 24:45:40.90, 06:08:55.37
2. Coffelt-Pruis, 25:33:09.53, 06:22:06.94
6-day duo relay
1. Melley-Melley, 19:15:38.25, 04:57:08.25
2. Zander-Zander, 19:20:30.37, 04:56:24.86
3. Arlinghaus-Arlinghaus, 20:52:24.17, 06:02:44.47
Tandem
1. Davis-Davis, 18:26:39.46, 04:38:15.44
2. Gomez-Gomez, 29:11:24.26, 07:27:28.13
3-day 4-6 solo open men pro 1-2-3
1. Peter Tonn, 03:49:18.73
2. Jorge Coto, 03:53:02.49
3. Andrew Ordelheide, 05:03:10.82
3-day 4-6 solo open women pro 1-2-3
1. Angela Parra, 04:05:14.90
2. Bethany Hancock, 05:17:29.70
3. Stephanie Brunnemann, 05:23:41.94, 05:23:41.94
3-day 4-6 solo men 40+ pro 1-2-3
1. Felipe Castro, 03:45:13.84
2. Andres Gamboa, 04:00:37.84
3. Alfredo Peralta, 04:04:16.20
3-day 4-6 solo men 50+ pro 1-2-3
1. Vince Archer, 04:04:55.73
2. Steve Mee, 04:17:09.34
3. Dan Knight, 04:41:50.61
Grand Fondo
1. Reade Warner, 03:03:45.35
2. Cole Ellison, 03:59:17.50
3. Ron Kelley, 04:18:11.89
BRECK EPIC 2019: Rear-view mirror
BRECK EPIC 2019: What’s to come
Thursday, Aug. 15
Stage 5: Wheeler
24 miles, 5,227-foot elevation gain