TDU Stage 5

Team Sky said NO, we are happy to let the break have it today.

SO we have 2 from Movistar, Blanco, OPQS, Radioshack all chasing on the front.

The break were at 4.30 not long ago, starting to come down, 60km to go and the break has 4.15

The start of Old Willunga in around 20km to go

OK, in the last few KM, the gap has dropped to 2.44 because the other teams are driving to catch before the climb

Time gap now 2:22. Peloton averaged 56.4kmh between km 86 and km 91

Now the peloton have backed it off a little to not reel the break in to quick

Through the second sprint and the gap is down to 1.49

Result of the 2nd Jayco Sprint at Snapper Point.

Tomasz Marczynski
Calvin Watson
Koen De Kort

I guess no-one else is awake, I should really create another account and talk to myself

35km to go and the gap comes under a minute

Blanco really pushing hard on the front to reel them in. De Gendt trying to stay away in the break, but no-one else seems to have the pace, he wants to hit the climb with a gap, so that he can stay with the peloton

Im awake now Gkam, to see the finish, I couldnt have stayed u for all the coverage.

Break has pretty much been caught now

I'm awake, been here from the start. De Gendt was my pick.

1st KOM at Old Willunga Hill: Eros Capecchi, Jose Herrada, Guillaume Bonnafond, Jurgen Roelandts, Andrey Kashechkin, Andrey Amador

THAT will be the only scoring KoM today because its classed as a summit finish

I think those riders may stay away

Or not

Here we go, hit the bottom of the climb 3.5km to go and its anyone's stage

Slagter has got this race

Gerrans wins

whats with the lets just watch the leader when they could watch the rest off the riders

I was on a bit of a delay......

Well I took gerrrans out last night for gilbert....Fail! at least he is in my purist team

My Purist team is loving the 2nd place rider

Not too good for me... I even picked the wrong brother in orange....

Gerrans
Slagter
Moreno
J Izagirre
Machado
Kelderman
G Izagirre
Valls
Pietropolli
Kelderman

I didn't put in either carrots today because I want to shoot them, they come out all guns blazing this tour, but did my teams nothing last year.

Time for a coffee, then onto the scores

Anyway back to bed now for a bit!

Im with you ter

I'm up now, might aswell just stay up, make a day of it and early beds to catch tomorrows stage

Just uploading scores now.....

Gained my fourth badge(KOM for Gerrans in purist)and up in to 240th place overall afetr a shocking start.

Bought in Guardini and Fenn for Kerby and Hansen for the last stage burn up:

Greipel
Guardini
DeMare
Fenn
Moreno
Thomas
Pietropolli
Slagter
Hermans

Argh! I had EIGHT scoring riders... Balls.

I did get KoM badge though and even with 30 penalty points managed my 'High Stage Score' badge too with 183 points, just damn annoyed I missed out on the Full House badge by one rider.

Also had two of the top three AGAIN

Im annoyed i dropped Gerrans for Gilbert last night, but my best score yet of 137

Gkam your doing an excellent job with uploading the scores. Thanks v much

I'll second that

yeah your doing well gkam!

every morning i have woken up and the scores are up, vast improvement on last year.

no offense to the people of last year lol.

Dammit Gkam, stop setting the bar so high!

Thanks folks. It is only up so early cause I don't sleep much at the best of times.

What I will say, just because the scores are up when you all roll out of bed, doesn't mean it was any quicker than last year.

It still takes a few hours from stage finish to me updating them.

So don't expect me to be the same with Qatar. It will be a couple of hours and because its a bit closer, you will all be awake moaning that I haven't done them yet

@Gkam
Glad the ticker-tapes working faster than those carrier pigeons last year
You're doing a grand job

Just made my transfers for the final stage and my one question is - how the hell did Tyler Farrar end up in my team yesterday? I certainly didn't pick him