Powers & Amaran Lead NRC After Joe Martin

Luis Amaran (CUB/Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita) and Alison Powers (Pinecliffe, Colo./Team Vera Bradley Foundation) used victories in the 2010 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar’s (NRC) fifth event, the Joe Martin Stage Race, to grab the overall NRC lead.

Amaran and Powers both used the stage race victory to jump from third to first place in the standings, while Katheryn Mattis (Mountain View, Calif./Webcor) and Benjamin Day (AUS/Fly Australia) used their second-place overall result at Joe Martin to move up in the top five.

The Fly V Australia squad continues to hold a slim lead in the men’s team standings meanwhile Team Vera Bradley Foundation took hold of a strong lead on the women’s side.

After four of 24 events, the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar standings are as follows:

Men’s Individual Standings
1. Luis Amaran (CUB/Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita) 441
2. Benjamin Day (AUS/Fly Australia) 393
3. Ben Jacques-Maynes (Watsonville, Calif./Bissell Pro Cycling) 310
4. Levi Leipheimer (Santa Rosa, Calif./Team Mellow Johnny’s) 265
5. Karl Menzies (AUS/United Healthcare p/b Maxxis) 167

Men’s Team Standings
1. Fly V Australia – 824
2. Jamis Sutter Home p/b Colavita – 725
3. Bissell Pro Cycling – 675
4. UnitedHealthCare p/b Maxxis – 513
5. Jelly Belly p/b Kenda – 448

Women’s Individual Standings
1. Alison Powers (Pinecliffe, Colo./Team Vera Bradley Foundation) 436
2. Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Peanut Butter & Co Twenty 12) 369
3. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (GER/HTC-Columbia) 304
4. Katheryn Mattis (Mountain View, Calif./Webcor) 278
5. Robin Farina (Charlotte, N.C./Team Vera Bradley Foundation) 250

Women’s Team Standings
1. Team Vera Bradley Foundation – 1108
2. Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12 – 655
3. Colavita/Baci Pro Cycling – 590
4. HTC Columbia – 488
5. Webcor Builders – 482