Looking at the Colorado Classic overall standings, with two stages left in Denver on Saturday morning, most everyone figured the fight would be between overnight race leader TJ Eisenhart (Holowesko-Citadel) and Alex Howes (Cannondale-Drapac), who was a single second behind.
Most expected Peter Stetina (Trek-Segafredo) to attack the climbs on stage 3, but few might have expected that Manuel Senni (BMC Racing) would be in the race lead, and Howes and Eisenhart more than half a minute behind.
Senni was 32 seconds behind in the standings, but with a short, 128km circuit featuring one massive category 2 climb followed by a long descent punctuated by a second, short cat 4 classified climb he saw his opportunity. Like a modern-day Bernard Hinault, as long as Manuel Senni can breathe, he will attack. He punched it over the second climb, joined by Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly-Maxxis) and the pair opened up a huge gap on the descent.
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"I have in my DNA to attack, attack, attack," Senni said, "and it was a good day to do this.
"I also found a very strong guy [Tvetcov], who was really good in the descent and on the flat he really helped a lot."
Tvetcov, a local in these hills, said he was ready to take a risk on the wet descent, one he knows well after training there. "But Senni looks like he trains there every day, too."
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