Rob Britton (Rally Cycling) powered to the stage win in the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah's uphill individual time trial at Big Cottonwood Canyon on stage 3. The Canadian topped Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly-Maxxis) by 13 seconds, with Gavin Mannion (UnitedHealthcare) in third at 26 seconds.
The performance puts Britton into the race lead after James Piccoli (Elevate-KHS), Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) and overnight leader Sepp Kuss (Rally) all fell shy of the top 10 on the stage. Britton now leads the race over Mannion by 26 seconds, with Tvetcov in third at 28 seconds.
In the post-race press conference, Britton, who finished fifth overall last year, said he put a big target on this stage.
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"I was really excited when I saw there was going to be an uphill time trial at this race," he said. "It’s something that kind of suits my strengths pretty well. I prepared also for this stage in particular doing specific stuff."
Britton blasted out of the start gate, and over the first half of the course finished just one second shy of Tvetcov's split time. He went 14 seconds better than Tvetcov over the second half to take the win.
"I tried to go out with the governor pretty off and tried to go into the red, because I knew kind of around that 2K to go and you crest over 8,000 feet mark, that's when it really starts to get hard with oxygen debt, and that's pretty much what happened," he said. "At that point I just kind of held on for dear life and just started to see the watts slip away and hope that I could minimize the damage and hold on in the last 500 metres. But I'm really happy with how it all wrapped up."
How it unfolded
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