La Ruta de los Conquistadores 2007

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That is what it takes to finish the 2007 La Ruta de los Conquistadores. Four days of racing ended with a happy but exhausted Tinker who joined the leaders on the podium with a 5th place overall finish.

The guy might be old enough to be your dad, but he sure can ride a bike.

Congratulations are deserved by everyone for finishing!!

CONGRATULATIONS TINKER!!!
Here are the top 10 overall finishers in the Open Men division.

1 Federico Ramirez Mendez (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut-Powerade-KHS 17:40.21
2 Paolo Montoya Cantillo (CRc) Macosta Lee Cougan Santa Ana BCT at 28.28
3 Thomas Dietsch (Fra) Gewiss Bianchi 44:36
4 Deiber Esquivel Benavides (CRc) IBP Pensiones 1:03:07
5 David "Tinker" Juarez (USA) Cannondale 1:05:39
6 Juan Alberto Solis Rodas (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut-Powerade-KHS 1:09.23
7 Thomas Zahnd (Sui) Team Stoeckli-Craft 1:40:33
8 Jason Sager (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale 1:58:11
9 Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona Les Gets 2:09:46
10 Enrique Artavia Cedeira (CRc) Super Pro Banco BCT Santa Ana 2:14:18

Finishes by some of the other Cannondale athletes are here:
29 Timmy Dougherty (USA) BearNaked/Cannondale 1:16.27

44 Thomas Spanning (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale 1.21:52

45 Chris Peters (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale s.t.

76 Shawn Luphco (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale 2:00:30

113 Troy Luphco (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale 2:33:02

Master A:

8 Ohran Ohranran Matt (USA) MonaVie/Cannondale 8.28

Photo credit: Rob Jones at Canadian Cyclist