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I suppose it was always going to end this way. Having bored people at work to tears with how difficult Els Angels was and how the Volta a Catalunya was going over the first category mountain on Tuesday, I was definitely setting myself up for a fall.

Even thought the summit was 80km plus from the finish in Banyoles I proclaimed with supreme confidence "A true climber will win this stage, the climb is very hard".