Welcome to the Canadian National Championships which will be contested over a mountainous route.
We only have 15 professional riders competing so let’s look at all of them:
MT
HI
RS
DH
Boily
76
78
72
79
De Vos
75
75
73
73
Hughes
75
73
74
60
Matte
75
70
71
61
Burke
73
73
72
70
Cataford
72
70
75
71
Piccoli
72
74
71
75
Anderson
67
75
67
72
Duchesne
67
77
72
51
Houle
66
75
71
69
Veilleux
65
74
69
57
Naud
62
73
73
75
Cote
60
66
69
68
Cowan
60
71
71
63
Boivin
58
70
70
67
Boily seems like the favorite but De Vos, Hughes and Matte are all close behind.
Of those De Vos has the best team support.
The climbing starts just a few kilometers into the race and we quickly have 3 amateurs away including one from Carrefour. But Xero’s amateurs are not interested in let them go and through the first 10 km of the big climb the cap hovers at around 30 seconds. With help from some of the amateur teams the break is reeled in and we are back to square 1.
Next away is an ENI-MOL amateur and his lead maxes out at 1 minute.
He is brought back and there are no further attacks. As the peloton summits the main climb with 24 km to ride nearly the entire peloton is still together. There are still 3 climbs to go.
Nothing happens over the first of these but at the top of the second climb, with 12k to go a 15-rider group goes clear. 11 of the professionals make it but missing are Anderson, Houle, Naud and Cowan.
One of the amateurs is dropped on the downhill so 14 riders start the final 6 km ascent together, they have 1’37 on the peloton.
With 4 km to go Hughes attacks and the rest of the professionals follow. The remaining amateurs are dropped as well as Boivin.
With 3.5 km to go the second to last rider in the chain, Cote is gapped and Burke is held up behind.
With 1.5 km to go the front 8 are still together and Boily is setting the pace on the front.
A kilometer later they are all still all together as the sprint opens up.
With 400km to go Duchesne leads De Vos than Veilleux and Cataford.
100 meters and De Vos has surged to the front.
And Adam De Vos is the new Canadian National Champion.
Canadian National Championships 
