ToAD Stage 5: Mike Sherer Jumps Into the Overall Lead!
The fifth stage of the Tour of America’s Dairyland featured the first of the ToAD series two road race stages, both which carry double points towards the overall standings. Mike Sherer initiated an eight man breakaway with Frankie Diering near the midway point of the race that stayed away and Mike finished fifth on the day. No other riders from the top ten in the overall standings made it into the move and Sherer’s strong ride moved him to the top of the overall standings with a four point lead over Rudy Napolitano (Helen’s Cycles) and Chad Hartley (Kenda p/b Geargrinder).
The 8 rider move quickly built and maintained a steady gap of one minute for most of the race. At one point the field took nearly 30 seconds off that margin due to strong attacks from the Bahati Foundation team, Hartley and a chase by the Bike Religion team, but the gap went back out over the next two laps.
Frankie Dierking (Team Wisconsin) attacked the leaders with one lap to go and maintained a 10 to 20 second gap for the remainder of the final lap. Napolitano excaped his breakaway companions just before the final climb to take second place and the remaining breakaway riders waited to duke it out on the long slog up the final climb.
The race was held on the 4-mile Road America car and motorcycle track and featured a brutal headwind climb at the end of each lap. The rest of the course was winding, windy and rolling and seemed to be extremely well received by all the riders. It wasn’t uncommon to hear riders claiming it was one of the funnest courses they’d ever raced on.
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