The Tour of Utah can be a daunting proposition for a sprinter. The opportunities for bunch kicks are limited and the race features multiple climbs near 3,000 metres of elevation, but Rally Cycling's Eric Young has made the most of his time in the Beehive State.
The 27-year-old sprinter has claimed stage wins in both 2014 and 2015, and he's looking for the opening two days of this year's race to add at least another. Young has targeted stages 1 and 2 – and possibly 4 – as his best opportunities, but even then he's smart enough to qualify his confidence.
"Stages 1 and 2 both have some pretty big climbs in there, so it will be challenging to make it as one big group to that finish, but we'll see how it goes," he told Cyclingnews Sunday in Cedar City.
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Young also knows he's got plenty of ambitious competition to contend with as well. He noted many of the top domestic fastmen as his rivals, including Holowesko-Citadel's Travis McCabe and the Team Jamis duo of Sebastian Haedo and Eric Marcotte.
"Ryan Roth from Silber has been riding well all year," Young added. "And then pretty much every WorldTour team has somebody fast: [Rick] Zabel (BMC) and [Heinrich] Haussler (IAM Cycling). And if they're not the fastest guys they are strong, so they're fresher at the end of these races than a lot of guys.
"I think there will definitely be some exciting sprint finishes and there's definitely some fast guys here."
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