Bauke Mollema (Trek Factory Racing) has moved back into the overall lead at the Tour of Alberta after placing second in stage 3’s climb to Miette Hot Springs, the first of two summit finishes in Jasper National Park.
“This was the goal for today and I’ve taken some bonus seconds, so it is still close with Adam [Yates] in the GC for tomorrow, but anyway it was a good day,” Mollema said at the finish line.
The Dutch climber heads into stage 4 with an advantage of six seconds over Yates (Orica-GreenEdge), and he warned that riders should expect the second summit finish, a climb to Marmot Basin Ski Resort, to be much tougher.
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“Tomorrow is one long climb, 12 kilometres in the end and it will be harder than today,” Mollema said.
The peloton lined up in Grande Cache to start stage 3 under cold temperatures that dipped to the freezing mark. Overnight snow covered the sides of the roads along parts of the course, and although the temperatures eventually rose to three degrees Celsius, the on-and-off rain added to the challenge of the stage.
“I think today was already a really hard day with the finish and especially with the cold,” Mollema said. “It was below five degrees Celsius all day and some rain, so it was a really cold day and luckily it got dry in the final.”
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