2009 Dirty Wooden Shoe

Iowa Orthopaedic rolls through Dubuque

April 20th, 2009

DUBUQUE — The first criterium is in the books as the race team took two to the bluffs of Dubuque for the Eagle Point Criterium.

Lee Current kicked off the racing on the winding one mile course in the the cat. 4 race. With the race staying together most of the way, the peloton kept things in order as they made their way to the finish. Staying in the group to the finish, Current came through in seventh in the field sprint.

Jacob Oyen toed the line for the cat. 3 race next. A small group of just 14 riders joined him for the 20 mile race. After a quick start the attacks began with four riders getting up the road just a few laps into the race. As the peloton struggled to work together, the gap steadily increased through the course of the race. The lead group lapped the main field on the last lap and Oyen caught a tow to the line to take sixth.

The racers head to Iowa City next weekend for the Old Capitol Criterium and Iowa City Road race.

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