Tinker's Cycling and News Blog: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Park City Point 2 Point video

What a great race this was!! I'm still recovering from so much travel and sick with a bad cold...will work on the stories hope soon!

Check out the PCP2P video!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Tour de Timor video stream and update after Stage 5

Tinker checked in after stage 5 and he had a good day but the connection was bad and we got cut off before he could say how he finished. Will have to wait for the results to be posted!!
Check out cyclingnews.com for results, videos, photos, and updates: cyclingnews

Here is a video updated through stage 5 ~ good stuff!!

Should be live feed at race start time

MulloLive

Video streaming by Ustream

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tour de Timor 2011 Update - after stage 3

We have not been able to talk with Tinker since the day before the Tour de Timor began in Dili, Timor-Lest in Indonesia but we have been able to keep track on the race website: www.tourdetimor.com, where they've been posting daily race reports.

Tinker earned the King of the Mountain jersey (and $1,000 USD) and 4th place during the first stage from Dili to Laclubar, with 6:42 behind the winner Adrian Jackson. Tinker had a strong third place finish on Day 2 with third overall; and another strong 4th place finish on Day 3, with 4th overall.

The field of racers is very impressive, and the $100,450 USD prize purse has attracted strong racers from 12 countries. The majority are top road, cyclocross, and mtb competitors from Australia, including U23 World Champion and Australian National Champion Paul van der Ploeg along with teammate and U23 National Champion Luke Fetch. Also from Australia, the top finishers included World MTB Orienteering Champion Adrian Jackson, National Marathon Champion Ben Mather, and veteran Australian National MTB Chamion Rohin Adams, among many other notable athletes.

So that purse is not coming easy to any of the racers, who are spending at least 4 nights of the 6 stage race in tents along the route. It looks like the entire country of Timor-Lest is cheering them on, and enjoying the festivities of the annual visit from the racers.

Results after Stage 3:

Stage 3	13/9/2011	7	Paul van der Ploeg	Overall	1	02:33:34	2:33:34	00:00:00
Stage 3	13/9/2011	19	Luke Fetch	Overall	2	02:33:35	2:33:35	00:00:01	0:01
Stage 3	13/9/2011	1	Adrian Jackson	Overall	3	02:35:02	2:35:02	00:01:28	1:28
Stage 3	13/9/2011	4	Tinker Juarez	Overall	4	02:36:28	2:36:28	00:02:54	2:54
Stage 3	13/9/2011	13	Ben Mather	Overall	5	02:36:44	2:36:44	00:03:10	3:10
Stage 3	13/9/2011	124	Rohin Adams	Overall	6	02:40:20	2:40:20	00:06:46	6:46
Stage 3	13/9/2011	6	Scott Liston	Overall	7	02:41:17	2:41:17	00:07:43	7:43
Stage 3	13/9/2011	246	Christopher Hanson	Overall	8	02:42:59	2:42:59	00:09:25	9:25
Stage 3	13/9/2011	169	Alex Denham	Overall	9	02:43:02	2:43:02	00:09:28	9:28
Stage 3	13/9/2011	338	Matt King	Overall	10	02:43:08	2:43:08	00:09:34	9:34
Stage 3	13/9/2011	278	Kel Boers	Overall	11	02:43:21	2:43:21	00:09:47	9:47

Paul van der Ploeg chats with Tinker Juarez after the stage.

Paul van der Ploeg chats with Tinker Juarez after stage 2.

Tinker is currently in 4th place overall.

Check out the Race Route:

Famed for its smooth seaside rides, gruelling climbs, spectacular mountain views and unprecedented crowd support, riders will be treated to a rare and special insight into Timor's unique geography, environment, people and culture.

View

2011 Tour de Timor in a larger map

Stages for this year's Tour de Timor will range between 60km and 136km per day.

Stage 1	Sun 11 Sep	Dili to Laclubar	111kms	View Stage 1 map
Stage 2	Mon 12 Sep	Laclubar to Beacu	121.9kms	View Stage 2 map
Stage 3	Tue 13 Sep	Beacu to Illiamar	69kms	View Stage 3 map
Stage 4	Wed 14 Sep	Illiamar to Com	79kms	View Stage 4 map
Stage 5	Thu 15 Sep	Com to Manatuto	141.5kms	View Stage 5 map
Stage 6	Fri 16 Sep	Manatuto to Dili	85kms	View Stage 6 map
		Total	607.4kms