The photo was in todays newspaper, captioned “Los traigo asoleados”. This is difficult to translate but it means something like “I am burning them out”.
I hit the wrong button when checking if the photo was the right size Khai.
Yes, he is the one on the front left in the CSC team uniform. Normally they would not let him race in that uniform but his youth season is over and he wanted to try it out in a race. He knows the organizer so he asked for permission to use it.
The picture is copyrighted. The news photographer that took it is sports photographer Mario Rivera from the *Primera Hora de Sinaloa *newspaper. I asked the reporter to send me a bigger picture to share it and she candidly did.
The race was “only” 80 km up a mountain and down. Sergio was the first one to attack on the first steep hill, he got about 70 90 m away and… being a rider with zero accumulated points on the series (and just a 14 y/o kid) of course no one went after him. Then the course got steeper and steeper and he was passed by some riders. It was a very hot and VERY humid day. He finished about mid pack. He has climbed many times but this was his first real race with a good amount of climbing. He also dropped his chain and that cost him at least 2 or three places. It was a painful experience but I think that he enjoyed it. It was also good that he did not even got mentioned in the race report in the newspapers. I guess he was getting spoiled riding against kids his age. He told me that he just wanted to have fun on this race but when I saw him attack as soon as he had the chance, it was very clear to me that he had something else in mind. Now he realizes that he was in a suicide mission doing that. He is a very tired kid now and enjoying his day off. I left him after lunch trying to read a cycling book written in English and as I was going out the door he reminded me (without me asking) that LA finished dead last in his first pro race.
I do not remember seeing that old man on the race. I guess I was too busy trying to keep an eye on my rider from the support car. Today in the morning I had a good laugh when I saw the picture in the newspaper of this old man riding his bike on front of the main group with a hard to describe smile.
Great picture. My friend did that at Kona, but we didn’t get a picture of it on Alii Drive. Thomas Hellonwheels came roaring toward Kona Surf. We were on beach cruzers and I noticed that a hilo and ten cops might indicate someone was coming pretty quick, so I pull over… My buddy keeps riding in the middle of the road and gets a dust off by Mr. Hell himself. We still laugh about that good move over a few beers.
Yes it is in Sinaloa, between Mazatlan and El Rosario but much closer to Mazatlan. It is a new road that takes you to a dam in construction higher than El Recodo.
The photo below of the older guys (Veteranos “C” Cat.) gives you a better reference of the area.
