The national championships should be quite an open affair in Lithuania as there are a number of useful CTour performers along with Lipton Iced Tea domestique Stundzia.
Ignas Konovalovas and Tomas Vaitkus have some good wins behind them this year and the reigning champion Dainius Kairelis has shown himself on the attack a number of times this year. Bacardi duo Bagdonas and Kroupis will be working hard to get protour contracts here you suspect to try and join Lipton rider Stundzia in representing the Lithuanians in the Protour.
The parcours for these Baltic races (taking place in Estonia) is pretty flat but with one bump is rated hilly.
We get one of those common early splits with four riders going away, the main driver is Vaitkus and he has certainly split things up as it is Bagdonas along with two national riders Kandrotas and Marius Bernatonis who have joined him in the move.
Reigning champion Kairelis tries to move across.
But his title has slipped away here as Vaitkus continues to power the breakaway. With 50km to go the lead four have 3.07 on Kairelis and 6.34 on the rest, as we approach the last lap Bagdonas knows he needs to get away from Vaitkus and attacks.
He cannot get away, but as Vaitkus pulls it back one of the national riders who borrowed some kit from Konovalinos decides to give it a go.
Vaitkus refuses to chase again as Kandrotas holds a 30 second advantage coming into the last 3km, relying perhaps on a powerful sprint. The Telenor man calmly sits on Bagdonas's wheel.
It was a foolish move as they cannot jump across and Kandrotas takes a surprise win.
