{"id":255,"date":"2005-05-30T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T00:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:03:51","slug":"bastion_square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/bastion_square\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastion Square Grand Prix 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriacyclingfestival.com\/\">Bastion Square criterium road bike race<\/a> in historic downtown Victoria Canada, 2005, was great as usual. An annual event I&#8217;ve attended over the past eight or nine years, both as a competitor and (as today) a sangria-swilling, chicken sandwich-eating, patio-lounging spectator.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetricscycling.com\/\">Team Symmetrics Cycling<\/a> had about 100 guys in the race. Their man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetricscycling.com\/team\/sveinTuft.aspx\">Svein Tuft<\/a> had a pretty good solo break (up to 30 seconds) going for almost half the 70 laps while home-grown world champ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konalesgets.com\/riders\/roland.php\">Roland Green<\/a> picked up prime after prime in the pack. Local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicathlete.org\/chapters\/british-columbia\/\">OrganicAthlete\u2019s<\/a> Luca Segato boldly manoeuvred himself into a solo bridge to try and join Tuft but it wasn&#8217;t to be, even after Green and Tuft&#8217;s teammate (and thus not likely willing to help much), Andrew Pinfold, joined up. But Green completed the move, at first swarmed by Symmetrics but eventually pulling alongside, mano-e-mano, with the Tuftster.<br \/>\nOne of the official announcers called it &#8220;No soup for you!&#8221;<br \/>\nSo it came down to a hell of a sprint for first, and the clambering crowds got quite a finish: Roland over Tuft by about a wheel. Segato sprinted into fourth (second in the main pack) just after Pinfold came flying by to add a podium finish to his podium triumph the day before in the 140km Sooke Classic (aka Gary Lund) road race.<br \/>\nSo once again the Elite Men&#8217;s category and overall Bastion Square winner (familiar territory for him) was Roland Green, with Tuft second, Pinfold third and Segato fourth.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two bike riders racing down a road\" title=\"Roland Green and Svein Tuft\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/IMG_8242.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" \/><br \/>\nRoland Green (left) and Svein Tuft during their solo and decisive breakaway on the Bastion Square race course.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A pack of bike racers race towards us\" title=\"Symmetrics at the front\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/IMG_8246.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" \/><br \/>\nTeam Symmetrics never faultered in their control at the front of the race pack.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two cyclists with their heads down sprint for the finish line\" title=\"Svein Tuft and Roland Green sprint for first place\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/IMG_8254.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"402\" \/><br \/>\nRoland Green (left) and Svein Tuft in the final sprint. Green won.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A cyclist standing with his bike and his son\" title=\"Luca Segato and his son\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/IMG_8256_r1.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"810\" \/><br \/>\nLuca Segato finsihed fourth place. His son, Fabrizio, was pretty excited about the whole thing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A cyclist poses with his first place medal\" title=\"Roland Green, Bastion Square Cycling Grand Prix Champion, 2005\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/IMG_8258_r1.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"751\" \/><br \/>\nRoland Green, Bastion Square Cycling Grand Prix, Champion, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th annual Bastion Square criterium road bike race in historic downtown Victoria Canada, 2005, was great as usual. An annual event I&#8217;ve attended over the past eight or nine years, both as a competitor and (as today) a sangria-swilling, chicken sandwich-eating, patio-lounging spectator. Team Symmetrics Cycling had about 100 guys in the race. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}