TDU Stage 5

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

Just uploading scores now.....

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

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

My Purist team is loving the 2nd place rider

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

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

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 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

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

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