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4th Annual Bluff to Bluff Road Bicycle Race Results

August 10, 2023

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ARPIN, WI (OnFocus) – On Sunday, August 6th, on a delightfully beautiful Wisconsin Summer morning, 42 WISports/Badger State Games highly skilled road bicycle racers stood at the base of Powers Bluff ready to compete in the 4th Annual “Bluff to Bluff” road bicycle race which winds past farm fields, up and over Cary Bluff, through wild lands and small villages with a finish atop Power Bluff. Racers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Tennessee and the Caribbean Island Nation of St Martin ranging in age from 16 to 78 completed the challenging 49-mile course.

Starting East of Powers Bluff’s County Park at the base of the hill, the race commenced with an explosion of speed on the front by the powerful Gryphon Team pulling the peloton to the base of Cary Bluff climb at 26-32 mph. The Cary Bluff climb cleaved the peloton into a lead group of 20 with three chase groups reforming in its wake. Strong lead peloton racers, with coordinated team efforts, launched repeated unrelenting attacks of escape to no avail as the entire peloton approached the final climb to the finish atop Powers Bluff intact resulting in a hotly contested combative push to the finish.

The event’s King of Mountain Preem at the top of the final Cary Bluff climb and the Sprint Preem at mile 37 were both successfully captured by David Howe of Tennessee in the Men’s Division while Alyssa VandenHeuvel captured the Queen of the Mountain Preem and Jennifer Baker the Sprint Preem in the Women’s Division.

Award winners: Overall “Bluff to Bluff” Men Placings:
1st- David Howe of Nashville, TN (1:57:46, 24.5 MPH avg)
2nd- Kianny Noel of St Martin, Caribbean (1:57:56, 24.4 MPH avg)
3rd- Chad Cannon, Neenah, WI (1:58:02, 24.4 MPH avg)

Overall “Bluff to Bluff” Women Placings:
1st- Jennifer Baker, Oxford, WI (2:45:44, 17.4 MPH avg)

Four Teams competed fiercely for the Bluff to Bluff team competition award being successfully captured by the Stevens Point Cycling Club.

The Sportsmanship Award was presented to Nathan Phelps of Team Gryphon.

Eleven riders age 16 to 78 also completed the 27-mile version of the race, called “One Bluff’s Enough.” The Men’s Division was won by John Southworth of Marshfield, WI (1:14:47) with the Women’s Division awarded to Aryn Smith of Amherst, WI (1:21:23).

Race directors Sharon and Ralph Bredl deemed the event a huge success and extend a sincere “Thank-you!” to all involved in the production.

Complete results can be viewed at the following link:
http://results.performancetiming.com/results.aspx?CId=16541&RId=701