Stage 7 - Vuelta Kolbi a Costa Rica - Cachi - Paraiso

Already a week since the beginning of the race. Today was the cronoescalada, uphill climb up to Paraiso. Only 10,6km long but steep.

Race description:
10,6km - uphill time trial - (423m)

Race map:
Cachi - Paraiso



How it unfold:
Only 10,6km long the course still had 423m of climbing. With the first 5km flat, pacing was important in order not to blow on the climb.

Ryan was the team top finisher 2min down on Rojas.

Team 1% for the Planet Etienne Samson crashed in the descent near the finish, while Gavriel had a mechanical. Luckily both were able to finish the race and will be able to start the next stage. On a good note, Etienne is now leading the "Lanterne Rouge" classification !

The fact of the day was Rojas. Even crashing and losing 40sec, he was able to win the stage by half a minute on his nearest rival. The fight for the Regularidad with him is going to be very hard with all the mountain comming up !

Jean-Michel: "With the flat section, I was under the impression I could possible gain some time and make some points for the jersey so I went flat out. It ended up to be a mistake as I blew up hard on the climb!"


Results: full results - video report

Stage 7 - 10,64km - avg speed - 32,34km/h
1- Juan Rojas, JPS Giant, 19m 44
2- Rodolfo Villalobos, JPS Giant, + 31 sec
3- Juan Mata, Agricenter, + 35 sec
28- Ryan Roth, 1% for the Planet, + 2m 11
30- Julien Gagné, 1% for the Planet, + 2m 22
46- Jean-Michel Lachance, 1% for the Planet, + 3m 05
64- Gavriel Epstein, 1% for the Planet + 4m 36
67- Anton Varabei, 1% for the Planet, + 5m 00
70- Étienne Samson, 1% for the Planet, + 16m 42

General classification
1- Juan Rojas, JPS Giant, 22h 49m 19
2- Jose Vega, JPS Giant, + 5m 18
3- Fabricio Quiros, BCR Pizza Hut, + 5m 45
17- Jean-Michel Lachance, 1% for the Planet, + 17m 50
33- Julien Gagné, 1% for the Planet, + 27m 51
49- Ryan Roth, 1% for the Planet, + 35m 05
53- Anton Varabei, 1% for the Planet, + 42m 02
58- Gavriel Epstein, 1% for the Planet, + 51m 04
70- Étienne Samson, 1% for the Planet,+  2h 16m 57

Regularidad
1 - Jean-Michel Lachance - For the Planet - 83pts
2 - Juan Rojas - JPS Giant - 74pts
3 - Jose Vega - JPS Giant - 53pts
4 - Fabricio Quiros - BCR Pizza Hut - 52pts
5 - Bryan Villalobos - Agricenter - 48pts
6 - Evgeny Kovalev - RusVelo - 45pts
5 - Bryan Villalobos - Agricenter - 39pts
7 - Elias Vega - JPS Giant - 39pts
8 - Henry Raab - Coopenae - 36pts
9 - Anton Varabei - For the Planet - 33 pts

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Photo credit: Federacion Costaricense de Ciclismo - Fecoci.net
Altimeteria and map: Garmin