So, the Colombia course, looks like a pretty standard circuit for 210km, then they turn off, and go insane, climbing a mountain. Uran, Henao and Duarte are favourites.
At the start the riders can see the turn that takes them up to the finish, but we have plenty of flat km before we get there.
9 riders form our early break: Quintana, Agudelo, Betancourt, Sarmiento, Diaz Corrales, Pantano Gomez, Baez, Anacona and Atapuma. Uran is clearly happy to let this go, while Henao is going to force Forero to do loads of work to pull this back.
Which Forero manages to do.
Forero pulls back break 2 as well.
Break three manages to get over 2 minutes: Atapuma, Anacona, Restrepo, Zambrano, Baez, Sarmiento, Ospina, Quintana, Pantano Gomez, Diaz Corrales and Betancourt. Again Forrero is controlling tha gap.
Forero is a beast, after 50km of solid chasing, we are all together again.
6 riders ping off the front now: Baez, Restrepo, Anacona, Diaz Corrales, Duque and Montoya. However Betancourt is now chasing in the peloton.
So they get pulled back as well.
Agudelo and Atapuma are now clear. Will the two men be allowed a gap?
Zambrano joins them.
But the two D2 riders are too much of a threat to Uran, so Betancourt shuts them down. Now Baez attacks
Sarmiento and Agudelo join him
and again they are chased down.
Even with no one off the front, Betancourt keeps pushing on the front, the peloton strung out behind him.
His pace account for Forero, forcing Henao to fetch his own water.
30km to go, and Betancourt finally drops off the front, although it's just to get water.
Pedraza and Suaza attack with 17km left.
Serpa follows.
As does Henao, this could be the move, even before the climb.
The four riders are together as we leave the circuit
Betancourt pulls them back.
Suaza, Serpa, Duarte and Pedraza all attack.
As the gap grows, Henao Montoya has no choice but to attack.
Uran follows
Up front Pedraza has built a 42 second lead.
Uran and Henao catch the chasers, but Pedraza is pushing his lead past the minute mark.
Serpa and Duarte are forced to try and attack.
Henao and Uran respond, but Serpa looks strong.
Uran grinds Serpa back, Suaza has completely blown.
3km to go, and Uran now tries to catch Pedraza.
The gap is closing, but the road is so steep. Now just 2km to go.
Pedraza is hanging tough, while Uran does all he can to close the gap.
And Pedraza hangs on to take an excellent victory ahead of Uran.
