After Thursday's stage 5 win at Lake Tahoe, 24-year-old Latvian Toms Skujins is two-for-two at the Tour of California.
He's raced the 2.HC event just twice, last year with Hincapie Racing and then again this year with Cannondale Pro Cycling, and he's left his mark on each edition. In 2015 he soloed away from a breakaway and won atop a barren hillside outside of San Jose, taking over the race lead and wearing yellow for three stages.
On Thursday, he soloed away from a breakaway again, but this time he had some company after Adam de Vos (Rally Cycling) and Xabier Zandio (Team Sky) bridged up to add more horsepower to the move.
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"Yeah so it wasn't easy to get into the break, of course, because people knew that the break might stick, and we were covering moves pretty good," he said. "I luckily managed to get in the right one. We had a pretty big group. As is always the case with big groups, not everyone was committed. Of course, that's understandablebecause people have different objectives for different days, but in the end it worked out pretty well."
Skujins attacked that group with de Vos on the Kirkwood climb about 153km into the 212km stage when he felt the breakaway was losing its impetus.
"The break wasn't working that well together, especially on the downhills we were just losing time," he said. "No one was pulling and we would go down without even pedaling. So I knew that guys were suffering at altitude. I knew I wouldn't be able to win if we came together in the last 15km because it would be attack after attack."
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