The climbing in Kenya awaits. A nice sunny day for the riders who tackle two huge climbs today. Let the strongest rider win!
Landa, Setiawa and Hugentobler open up the race with an initial attack to get in today's breakaway.
Plenty more riders are allowed to join as we have a total of 12 riders up the road. These are:
Landa
Setiawa
Hayter
Rutsch
Nur Hasan
Paprstka
Hugentobler
Van der Haar
Matsuda
De Tier
Beltran
Blouwe
The pace over the first big climb is slow as we see the entire breakaway crest the top with a 4 minute advantage over the peloton.
With 70 km remaining the riders are done with the long descent and are now in the valley. Several teams including Jura, Lierse, Aker, Popo4Ever and Tryg are setting the pace.
The breakaway hit the final climb with almost 20 km to go. It's all climbing from here on out. Their gap to the peloton is just a minute, so it's just a matter of time before they are caught.
Their day is over with 16 km to go. Now let's see who of the favourites makes the first move.
My apologies I forgot about Landa, De Tier and Nur Hasan who are still up the road. But the big news is Latour attacking with 14 km to go and bridging up to the remains of the breakaway. Penasa is trying to join and is now in between both groups.
Guldhammer and Spilak join Penasa in their chase for Latour.
Spilak is content to ride at his own pace, while Guldhammer kicks again. Him and Penasa join Latour as the trio have a nice gap of 1'42'' ahead of the main group.
Latour doesn't want company though and he attacks again!
Galta and Schelling realize they can't stay passive too long. Quintana is at the front of the peloton.
Small groups of riders are now scattered across the mountain. Back to front we have Faglum Karlsson and Carapaz. The a bigger group with Quintana, Wellens, Shikai, Padun and Nerz. Then it's Galta's group that now also has Penasa there.
Padun not at this best today as he drops out of the Quintana group.
Penasa is now also sliding backwards after his previous efforts.
Speaking of previous efforts, it's the same for Guldhammer and Spilak. Galta and Schelling are the main chasers now as we see Latour is under the 5 km banner now.
Galta and Schelling bridge up to Latour with 3.5 km to go. Pre race favourite Wellens is now making his move behind them.
Wellens makes it to the front group. Quintana tried, but couldn't follow the Belgian and is now the lone chaser in 5th position.
1.5 km to go. Nerz still has gas left in the tank and is trying to tempo up to the front group.
700 m left. Looks like it will be a sprint finish up the final ramp.
Galta is the slowest here, he can't follow. Latour is the quickest and he's flying!
He went on the attack early on and was the fastest in the end. Pierre Latour wins the Kenya Mountain Classic.
Wellens just beats Schelling to take 2nd place. Galta in 4th behind them.
Nerz finishes strongly in 5th place. Quintana and Shikai rode at their own tempo for the most part and finished in solid places, 6th and 7th.
While going early helped Latour, it didn't work out the same for Spilak and Guldhammer. The Dane especially would have wanted to do better. Faglum Karlsson rounds out the top 10.
Penasa is another who paid for his too aggressive riding in 12th. Padun an off day in 13th and Oomen the huge disappointment only 20th.
Kenya Mountain Classic 
