MacGregor won the summit finish of the 104-mile (167 km) Wachusett Mountain Road Race ahead of Kyle Wamsley
(Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light) and Ted King (Bissell Pro Cycling). The victory was MacGregor’s first
since he captured the fifth stage of the Tour de Beauce a year ago.
It was the 15th win of the season for Team Type 1, a first-year professional squad whose mission and
message is to inspire people living with diabetes to take a proactive approach to managing their health. Four riders on the
pro team have Type 1 diabetes.
Milne earned himself a sizeable lead in the points competition by escaping the 139-rider field with Stefan
Rothe (Marx & Bensdorf/Tristar). The pair built up a more than five-minute lead before Rothe suffered a flat tire. Milne
soldiered on alone, but was caught by the peloton after more than 55 miles (88 km) of freedom.
Team Type 1 Sport Director Ed Beamon said a long breakaway wasn’t part of the pre-race plan for
Milne, who won this race two years ago.
“We said if there was a three or four-man breakaway, we weren’t going to work it very hard
because it’s so hard for a small group to stay away,” Beamon said. “But the field lacked cooperation and
only two teams, Colavita and Bissell, were doing the chasing. I knew it was going to be suicide for Shawn to win the stage,
but it gave him a 90-point cushion on the points jersey.”
Less than half the field remained together on the final lap of nine of a hilly, 11.5-mile circuit that
preceded a 1.5-mile (3 km) climb to the finish at the Wachusett Mountain ski resort. Attacks launched by Team Type 1’s
Daniel Holt and Jesse Anthony trimmed that number down to fewer than 50 as the final ascent began.
“We went into the stage today to set either Ian or Chris (Jones) up for the win,” Beamon
said. “It’s awesome that Ian won because most of the time he’s been racing with the stage crew squad in
a worker capacity. So it was really good to see him step up and deliver.”
With two stages of the four-day race remaining, Jones is Team Type 1’s best-placed rider overall,
19 seconds behind Wamsley, who assumed the race lead from Jonathan Chodroff (CRCA/Empire Cycling Team). Justin Spinelli (Kelly
Benefit Strategies presented by Medifast) is second, five seconds back, while King is third, seven seconds behind.
Team Type 1’s Jesse Anthony, who had the best performance of the squad in Thursday’s Best
Western Royal Plaza/Rindge Road Time Trial, is ninth overall, 37 seconds behind. MacGregor climbed from 48th to 13th and is
55 seconds back.
Saturday’s stage is the 75-mile Fitchburg State College Circuit Race, followed by the Workers’
Credit Union Downtown Criterium on Sunday.
