Nate Brown (Cannondale Garmin) rode himself into the day's main breakaway and narrowly missed the stage win on Tuesday's race from Steamboat Springs to Arapahoe Basin at the USA Pro Challenge. Brown was caught in the final kilometer by a chase group powered by Rohan Dennis (BMC) and Brent Bookwalter (BMC.) Dennis, blasted past Brown, enabling Bookwalter to sprint for the win. As Dennis rode by, Brown waved at the cameras and finished in 13th place. Though he lost out on his biggest win to date, Brown was awarded the 1st Bank Most Aggressive Jersey for his efforts.
Though Brown was born in Colorado Springs, the 24 year old grew up most of his life at sea level in Tennessee. Brown turned professional in 2010 with the Trek-Livestrong squad, and moved to Garmin-Sharp in 2014.To date, his biggest professional acheivements were GC wins at the Tour Du Pays De Vaud in 2009 at the Tour de Beauce in 2013.
The day's breakaway went in the opening kilometers of the race, and was well established before they hit the first climb up through Rabbit Ears Pass, only 7 km into the race. The break started up the first climb with a comfortable lead of 2:40 on the field.
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"The goal for the day was to put someone in the break. I didn't expect it to be me, but when the break went, and we didn't have anyone I jumped across," Brown said. "The break rode really well the whole day, everyone was rotating. When we got to Ute Pass I decided to punch it a little bit to test the legs of the other guys and I could tell I was one of the stronger guys in the group."
Brown laid in wait until the break approached the final climb up to Arapahoe Basin. Brown attacked with 20 km to go and only Gregory Daniel (Axeon) could respond.
"We worked well together until the base of the climb and then I just hit it," Brown said. "Until about 800 meters to go I was solo and I thought maybe I'll just hold onto this, but they were coming up fast."
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