Washington state homeboy Tyler Farrar captured his second sprint-finish win at the Eneco Tour bike race in Belgium on Thursday.
Born and raised in Wenatchee, Farrar earlier admitted he had a frustrating Tour de France with several second-place showings against Team Columbia's sprint phenom Mark Cavendish. The Brit won 6 stages in the 2009 Tour.
In the past week, Farrar has two first place finishes at Eneco Tour on Wednesday and Thursday and a win at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Germany on Sunday.
It's uncertain when Farrar and Cavendish will finally get a chance to meet again. Farrar, a member of US-based Garmin-Slipstream, is scheduled to compete at the Vuelta Espana, which runs August 29 through September 20, while Cavendish is slated to race at the Tour of Missouri, September 7 through 13.
Eneco
The Eneco Tour is an 8-day race through Belgium and The Netherlands. Farrar holds the leader's jersey going into Stage 3 after winning Stages 1 and 2 and finished second in the prologue.
According to CyclingNews, the peloton followed a hilly, 110-mile course through Belgium on one of the hottest days of the summer on Thursday. A couple of breaks developed, but couldn't sustain their leads. Farrar won in a mass sprint.
He is followed in the overall classification by Edvald Hagen (Columbia) and Tom Boonen (QuickStep).
I'm sure Tyler's father, Ed, is very proud of his son. Ed Farrar is an orthopedic surgeon in Wenatchee who is recovering from a serious bicycle crash with a car more than a year ago suffered on the way to work.
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