Rally Cycling is bringing a strong team to the upcoming Tour of Alberta that features three potential leaders for the general classification battle, with Tour of Utah winner Rob Britton leading a charge that will also include 2016 Alberta stage winner Evan Huffman and climbing talent Sepp Kuss.
Jesse Anthony, Matteo Dal-Cin, Adam de Vos, Danny Pate and Colin Joyce, who won the opening Alberta stage last year and led the race for a day, will round out the US Continental team's roster.
"My main focus is to end the season with a strong result," Britton said. "The team will be looking for success in stages, however the overall will be our main focus."
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Britton took the lead in Utah with a powerful performance in the race's short uphill time trial at elevation, then hung on over four more stages to take the overall win over Gavin Mannion (UnitedHealthcare) and Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly-Maxxis). He suffered at the Colorado Class less than a week later and finished 30th overall.
"Honestly, I was pretty beat up after Utah and it showed in Colorado," he said. "I've had a few weeks at home to recuperate and now I'm feeling good and hungry to race again. After Alberta, I have a few races with the Canadian National Team and then I am going to do some mountain biking."
Kuss, who was second on Utah's second stage to Snowbasin Ski resort and led the race for a day, finished ninth in Utah and sixth in Colorado after an untimely mechanical doomed his efforts in Breckenridge. Huffman, who won stage 3 in Alberta last year and finished third overall, is in the midst of a stellar season that saw him win two stages at the Tour of California along with the time trial stages at the Cascade Cycling Classic and the Tour of the Gila, where he also won the overall.
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