Tour of the Gila Levi Leipheimer LIVESTRONG

 SRAM Tour of the Gila 2010 on the way. It started  April 28 and it will see the end this Sunday, May 2 with the GILA MONSTER ROAD RACE and Levi Leipheimer wants to defend his title winning it.

Jesse Sergent from Trek-LIVESTRONG cycling team won today's time trial leaving most of us in awe, since we were expecting Levi to own it. But this did not affect Leipheimer's leading position in the general classification. He still remains the king!

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION after stage 3, April 30

1	Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong)	0:34:09
2	Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's)	0:00:14
3	David Zabriskie (DZ Nuts)	0:00:26
4	Tom Danielson (DZ Nuts)	0:00:46
5	Lance Armstrong (Mellow Johnny's)	0:01:50

Lance Armstrong is number 16 in the GC with 4:02 minutes behind Levi. Armstrong commented yesterday to reporters:

“It’s probably a good thing,” Armstrong said. “I’m definitely missing race days and this is an opportunity to not only get some race days but do some work to compensate for all the things that I’ve missed. If you sit back and look at the year so far, between bad luck and illness, I’ve pulled out of a few races and now is the time to make up for that.

“People can talk about domestic or American races, but I don’t think that’s necessarily accurate,” Armstrong said. “The field is fast and American pros are strong. The other key thing here is that it’s an altitude race and there are a lot of guys that live at altitude so it’s not a big adjustment for them. Us lowlanders come up here and definitely pay the price for being at five, six or seven thousand feet and making efforts, it’s difficult.”