17 year old Logan Owen is currently racing the Tour of l’Abitibi with the US Junior National Team. Here is the next installment of his time there:

The Tour of l’Abitibi takes place in Abitibi-Temiscamingue in northwestern Quebec. It is restricted to athletes aged 17-18. It is a UCI sanctioned race and is the only event of this size in North America.

Stage 2: So we started the 106km stage 2nd in every classification and were looking to take the lead. We were attacking all day and finally a group of 10 rolled off with Greg and Tj in it. TJ rode off the front of the break and put a lot of time into them and Greg got 2nd in the break away sprint getting 4th. Darville, winning the intermediates, took the points jersey and we were 1st and 2nd in gc after the stage.

Stage 3: We started at 10 a.m. for the 10km TT. It consisted of some technical corners on a bike path for most of the TT. We went 1,2,3,4,5, and 7 on the stage and increased our lead in everything and I took the blue jersey for best young rider. In gc we took the top 6 spots with our 6 man team. Good day!

Stage 4: Later in the day we started a 50km circuit race at 5p.m. So our plan was to just ride tempo on the front for the entire stage and lead Darville for the win. This is exactly what we did and we averaged 47.5 khr riding on the front. I was the last person in line to deliver Darville to his for stage win of the Tour de l’Abitibi and I ended up finishing 3rd myself which increaseed my lead in the best young rider classification.