Joey Rosskopf must have had a sense of déjà vu during Saturday’s Queen stage at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
In 2013, Rosskopf, who was riding for the Hincapie Development Team at the time, made it into the day’s breakaway and then survived the climb to Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort with the lead group, challenging BMC’s Cadel Evans for the stage win before settling into second and grabbing the race’s mountains jersey.
Rosskopf made the breakaway again this year, this time as a BMC rider himself, and was pressing the pace with Cannondale-Garmin’s Ben King and Team SmartStop’s Rob Britton when the reduced peloton caught the trio with less than 10km remaining.
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“It felt almost identical,” Rosskopf said. “I went in the break at the exact same moment as last year, like 2km from the top of the climb. It was a big group like last year, the only difference was that it was a little more balanced, so we all had to roll through and that took a little more effort out of everyone. Last year there were four BMC guys who were just driving it.
“We trimmed it down on Guardsman like last year and tried to roll the descent as fast as we could,” he said, “but we got caught a lot earlier this year, with maybe 7km to go.”
Rosskopf said this year’s adventure was likely doomed because the riders who survived with him over Guardsman Pass and onto the lower slopes of the Little Cottonwood climb to Snowbird were not 100 percent committed to making the move work.
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