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  • April 6, 2019 at 10:34 am #29513
    Dr Winston

    Yeah….time to go climbing and rolling. Fields are getting stronger and stronger, no idea where to even start to try and unpick this one after the TT…

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  • April 10, 2019 at 3:51 pm #939065
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    Anonymous

    Reckon today’s big crash is

    Reckon today’s big crash is going to produce some big splits in the Purist leagues (no spoilers).

    April 10, 2019 at 3:51 pm #939063
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    Dr Winston

    Nightmare day….gonna come

    Nightmare day….gonna come down to who had fewest fallers and DNS’s…

    April 10, 2019 at 12:45 pm #939061
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Bevin abandons.

    Dennis DNS too, I guess they both have health problems.

    3 stages, 0 points for me from Bevin.

    Did you get Bravo for today ?

    April 10, 2019 at 12:19 pm #939059
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    Dr Winston

    Bevin abandons.

    Bevin abandons.

    April 10, 2019 at 6:16 am #939057
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    stevemarks

    Couldn’t resist casting the

    Couldn’t resist casting the dead wood aside and used up a couple of transfers to bring in Madouas and Lambrecht. I too was struggling to see where I might use them otherwise. Maybe the break makes it today but I think I’m still better off having 8 competitive riders at this stage.

    April 9, 2019 at 6:16 pm #939055
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    So many good riders in the 15.0 > 25.0 bracket made going without him a distinct possibility this time…not much to shout about above that price really…just Kwia…It did of course need them to keep in the GC running just behind Alla though.

    Quite a steep looking kick tomorrow….have you done a reccie on it?

    I tried to post the climb here but it didn’t work.

    Not very steep, the main part is ~ 5km @ 5%

     

     

    Mmmm. Neither one thing nor the other. No trains to speak of to drive them up it either. Could be a day for the GC contenders to just roll home….Maybe Yates could exact some revenge….(clutches at straws)….

    April 9, 2019 at 5:32 pm #939053
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    So many good riders in the 15.0 > 25.0 bracket made going without him a distinct possibility this time…not much to shout about above that price really…just Kwia…It did of course need them to keep in the GC running just behind Alla though.

    Quite a steep looking kick tomorrow….have you done a reccie on it?

    I tried to post the climb here but it didn’t work.

    Not very steep, the main part is ~ 5km @ 5%

     

     

    April 9, 2019 at 5:09 pm #939051
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Big fall for my purist team incoming. 1st yesterday with a non Alla team. My thinking was that Yates wouldn’t beat him but he wouldn’t be far behind him on every stage…and the extra funds allowed a full squad…which Alla didn’t.  That plan is now in tatters. It wasn’t a bad call actually this time when you looked at what the extra funds meant.

    I have Alaphilippe in the purist but seriously considered going for 2 less expensive riders. I expected him to do better yesterday and I now think 2 cheaper riders will prove to be the better pick.

    Yates now has the freedom to attack and get away on the last 3 stages.

    Tomorrow is probably a day for the break, unless Alaphilippe wants another stage win. Although CCC, Caja Rural & Euskadi might help out with the chase.

    Lots of the potential break riders lost lots of time today.

    So many good riders in the 15.0 > 25.0 bracket made going without him a distinct possibility this time…not much to shout about above that price really…just Kwia…It did of course need them to keep in the GC running just behind Alla though.

    Quite a steep looking kick tomorrow….have you done a reccie on it?

    April 9, 2019 at 4:49 pm #939049
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Big fall for my purist team incoming. 1st yesterday with a non Alla team. My thinking was that Yates wouldn’t beat him but he wouldn’t be far behind him on every stage…and the extra funds allowed a full squad…which Alla didn’t.  That plan is now in tatters. It wasn’t a bad call actually this time when you looked at what the extra funds meant.

    I have Alaphilippe in the purist but seriously considered going for 2 less expensive riders. I expected him to do better yesterday and I now think 2 cheaper riders will prove to be the better pick.

    Yates now has the freedom to attack and get away on the last 3 stages.

    Tomorrow is probably a day for the break, unless Alaphilippe wants another stage win. Although CCC, Caja Rural & Euskadi might help out with the chase.

    Lots of the potential break riders lost lots of time today.

    April 9, 2019 at 4:06 pm #939047
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Damn…Put Bravo in, took Bravo out…in, out, in, out…shake it all about. Damn again.

    Although…I also had Amezqueta in at one point…no idea what he’s doing floating in between the peleton and lead group for no reason though…probably thinking “what the hell am I doing here”…

    The course wasn’t as difficult as I expected, they had relayed all the concrete roads and made them wider. I had a look on Google World and they looked a lot narrower. The only person to miss out badly is Yates.

    No changes to my team today. I’ll probably have transfers left over at the end of the race.

    I was tempted to bring Madouas in but decided to stick with what I had.

    Hopefully Bevin can do something tomorrow but I doubt it.

     

     

    Big fall for my purist team incoming. 1st yesterday with a non Alla team. My thinking was that Yates wouldn’t beat him but he wouldn’t be far behind him on every stage…and the extra funds allowed a full squad…which Alla didn’t.  That plan is now in tatters. It wasn’t a bad call actually this time when you looked at what the extra funds meant.

    April 9, 2019 at 3:54 pm #939045
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Damn…Put Bravo in, took Bravo out…in, out, in, out…shake it all about. Damn again.

    Although…I also had Amezqueta in at one point…no idea what he’s doing floating in between the peleton and lead group for no reason though…probably thinking “what the hell am I doing here”…

    The course wasn’t as difficult as I expected, they had relayed all the concrete roads and made them wider. I had a look on Google World and they looked a lot narrower. The only person to miss out badly is Yates.

    No changes to my team today. I’ll probably have transfers left over at the end of the race.

    I was tempted to bring Madouas in but decided to stick with what I had.

    Hopefully Bevin can do something tomorrow but I doubt it.

     

     

    April 9, 2019 at 12:38 pm #939043
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    Dr Winston
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Damn…Put Bravo in, took Bravo out…in, out, in, out…shake it all about. Damn again.

    Although…I also had Amezqueta in at one point…no idea what he’s doing floating in between the peleton and lead group for no reason though…probably thinking “what the hell am I doing here”…

    April 9, 2019 at 12:30 pm #939041
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    Dr Winston

    Damn…Put Bravo in, took

    Damn…Put Bravo in, took Bravo out…in, out, in, out…shake it all about. Damn again.

    April 9, 2019 at 10:19 am #939039
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    MinardiM189
    Condor Andy wrote:
    It wasn’t me who scored it, but I checked the Itzulia website and it has Martinez – Carthy – Izagirre. If that changes then we’ll update the scores. There’s always stuff like this at these sort of races so I’ll keep my eyes on it.

    The results are correct. I was wrong.

    Martinez did win it.

    I expected the first rider to pass the summit to win but it was the fastest up the hill that won. The race organizers were also confused and initially gave the KoM to Schachmann but later corrected it to Martinez.

     

    April 9, 2019 at 9:53 am #939037
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    Condor Andy
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Just checked out the rule book and it was the fastest times up the hill that counted for KoM points. So the difference between INT1 & INT2 times n the ITT.

    I was sure that Schachmann was presented with the KoM shirt too, there was a photo on twitter. Bora thought he had won too.

    However in a later tweet it was announced Martinez had won it.

    All 3 were on road bikes, so I though there might have been an odd rule discounting ITT bikes from KoM competition. cheeky

    It wasn’t me who scored it, but I checked the Itzulia website and it has Martinez – Carthy – Izagirre. If that changes then we’ll update the scores. There’s always stuff like this at these sort of races so I’ll keep my eyes on it.

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