With a lead of 7m 21s our breakaways have found themselves in a very comfortable position, Mooney/Jamis Sutter Home, Jones/Bissell Pro Cycling and Mumford/Team Optum are working well together to maintain this advantage

The peleton is beginning to spread out as Radioshack Nissan set the pace on the front

The lead has come down to 5m 49s

The lead is exactly five minutes as our leaders start the climb of Fort Ross Rd

Radioshack are still setting a wicked pace on the front

The trio are still working very well together

The riders have just been informed that the lead is now under three minutes

Busche/Radioshack Nissan is riding himself in to the ground to try and get the breakaway back on level terms

Mumford/Team Optum has ridden clear of his fellow escapees, he must still be feeling pretty good inside

All he has left is 23s

Inside five kilometres and we have three separate sprint trains trying to stamp there authority on the front of the race from left to right we have Chipotle, Radioshack and ourselves

Heinrich Haussler takes the final corner in a perfect position

But he doesn't have enough energy left in the tank as Tony Gallopin of Radioshack Nissan passes him with ease and finishes off a Great day for his team

Tony Gallopin RadioShack - Nissan

Reid Mumford - Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies

Tony Gallopin - RadioShack - Nissan

Garmin - Sharp

A nice and steady start for the guys today

These five riders are the first to have been able to get some daylight from the peleton due to the fact that Radioshack-Nissan have been in total control since the start. The riders in this group are Anderson/Spidertech, Jacques Maynes/Bissell Pro Cycling, Housley/Kenda 5 Hour Energy and the Competitive Cycling duo of Grajales and Beyer

There lead at the moment is 1m 47s

Gallopin/Radioshack-Nissan is looking pretty comfortable at the front despite the dreadful conditions

The leaders have reached the first category climb of Empire Grade

The break are slowly all coming back together after the climb

Beyer/Competitive Cyclist and Housley/Kenda 5 Hour Energy are struggling to get back up to there fellow escapees and have been dropped

The three leaders are now on the second Major climb of the day – Bear Creek Road

Radioshack have powered up the climb and are now chasing the three leaders down to the finish

As our trio go under the twenty kilometres to go banner, race radio tells us that the lead is now just fifty seven seconds

Inside ten kilometres and with fifty one seconds advantage, but the peleton now has them in their sights

They are swept up by the fast moving Radioshack train are are intent on delivering Gallopin to the line in one piece

Fischer/Garmin Sharp is looking like he wants to spoil the party

But he gets pipped at the line by Marcus Burghardt of BMC Racing

Murilo Fischer - Garmin - Sharp

Serghei Tvetcov - Team Exergy

Lawson Craddock Bontrager - Livestrong Team

Garmin - Sharp

Bit of a mixed bag for us today with half the team finishing in the main pack and the other half having a day to forget.
But we do have Vegard and George looking impressive on the GC

Tvetcov/Team Exergy was part of a three man break but decided the others were not doing enough help so he has gone up the road alone where he has opened up a lead of 1m 22s on them and a further 4m 3s back to the pack

Hagman/Jelly Belly Cycling and our own Alex Bowden/Team Type 1 are still chasing at over four minutes and forty seconds back

With his two chasers now back in the peleton Tvetcov/Team Exergy now is alone in front with a lead of six minutes and three seconds

He is still setting himself a good pace as his lead is more or less the same

UnitedHealthcare have sent a couple of their riders to the front to try and reduce the gap

The Yellow jersey of Gallopin/Radioshack Nissan is never too far from the front

Every team is now beginning to gather at the front of the peleton as we come to the business end of the stage

As he begins to tire he is given the news from the race referee that his lead is now below the two minute mark

Once again its UnitedHealthcare who are controlling the front of the peleton, they must have there sights set on the stage victory today

The effort has finally taken its toll on him as his legs have nothing left as the attacks behind have started to close the gap on him very rapidly

The catch was made just inside the five kilometre mark and as Team Type 1 put the pressure down a split appeared in the main bunch

And the mass sprint for the line has started, who will be successful today

Its Philip Deignan of UnitedHealthcare who takes it just in front of our very own Kiel Reijnen

Murilo Fischer - Garmin - Sharp

Cesar Grajales - Competitive Cyclist Racing Team

Ryan Anderson - SpiderTech powered by C10

Really Happy with the way the guys went about there business today, being non-existent until when it mattered and then seeing Kiel battle it out for the win at the end.
And he is noe second on the GC, so i am very happy today