American TJ Eisenhart narrowly missed out on the stage 2 win in the Colorado Classic in Breckenridge, but thanks to his day-long breakaway during which he swept up two intermediate time bonuses, the Holowesko-Citadel rider is in the race leader's jersey by one second over Friday's winner Alex Howes (Cannondale-Drapac). He now faces a fierce battle to hold onto for the overall race win over Howes, who has promised to throw everything he can at his young rival.
However, the 23-year-old Eisenhart was relaxed and just enjoying "being in the moment" in the post-stage press conference, admiring how his new blue leader's jersey colour coordinated with his signature turquoise necklace and sunglasses.
"This jersey is wicked cool. I love it, it matches my turquoise, it matches my eyes. My mom always told me I looked good in blue. So, I love that," Eisenhard joked before getting serious about discussing the race situation.
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"Cannondale is going to go berserk for that. It'll be a tight race. It will be crazy, but I'm not concerned about it. Maybe I'll worry about it in the race, but right now I'm just stoked to be here. It's always lame and bad when you're already thinking about how you're going to keep this jersey now – we're in the here and now. The future doesn't even exist and the past is over."
Eisenhart's race lead came from an attack almost from the gun that was entirely unplanned. He said he just "felt good" and decided to go for it, and ended up staying away for the entire day, netting the mountains jersey and race lead and second on the stage.
"Going into [the stage] I knew I wanted to do something special. I tried and tried in Tour of Utah, but it wasn't meant to be. The plan was for me to sit in and chill, and try at the end. As soon as we hit the first climb I felt great, and it dawned on me that everyone else was suffering pretty hard."
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