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  • March 16, 2013 at 10:29 pm #18241
    simon F

    I think the stage definitions for this race could do with another look. Is stage 1 really high mountains? The highest point in the stage is only 614m above sea level.

    I also think we could do with another level between flat and medium mountains (hilly?). Stage 7 – a circuit with repeated climbs of Montjuic (roughly 150m summit) is obviously not flat but mountains of any description is pushing it a bit.

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  • March 18, 2013 at 11:24 am #722597
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    drheaton

    Standard
    Valverde
    Meersman
    Da
    Standard
    Valverde
    Meersman
    Davis
    Simon
    Guardini
    Dumoulin
    Cardoso
    Haedo
    Kreder

    Purist
    Rodriguez
    Valverde
    Horner
    Meersman
    Simon
    Cardoso
    jeandesboz
    Ruijgh
    Arroyo

    March 18, 2013 at 11:11 am #722595
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    TERatcliffe26

    Well here are my teams, this
    Well here are my teams, this could go horribly wrong

    Standard

    Simon
    Dumoulin
    Meersman
    Wellens
    Ratto
    Machado
    Majka
    Hesjedal
    Uran

    Purist

    Simon
    Dumoulin
    Arroyo
    Spilak
    Aru
    Majka
    Martin
    Valverde
    Uran

    đŸ˜•

    March 18, 2013 at 10:25 am #722593
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    chrisdstripes

    Simon 15.7 or Quintana 15.5
    Simon 15.7 or Quintana 15.5 for my purists? đŸ˜• Keep changing my mind. Its a tricky one this – lots of big names but many of them won’t have hit form yet – who’ll be going for the overall I wonder? Last year was basically the Albasini and Simon show, but the 2 big summit finishes look more severe this week…

    March 18, 2013 at 8:55 am #722591
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    Stumps

    My team is very similar to
    My team is very similar to all the rest at the mo, purist filled with climbers etc etc and my standard has 2 sprinters in for stage one and they will be swapped out for the rest of the race starting tomorrow.

    March 18, 2013 at 8:28 am #722589
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    Squiggle

    Yeah Gerrans, I went and
    Yeah Gerrans, I went and swapped him out as I imagine he probably feels like crap this morning. Made another change too. He’ll probably go and win now B-)

    March 18, 2013 at 8:17 am #722587
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    ray silvester

    Squiggle wrote:I don’t know

    Squiggle wrote:
    I don’t know if I’m daft or not but there’s a bloke on my standard team who might do well in the first 2 stages but he just raced MSR so he’ll surely be ill by tomorrow morning. Imagine doing that race one day then jumping on a plane to Spain and starting a stage race the next day! I think I’ll probably take him out! He didn’t finish MSR but got way too deep into it before dropping out!

    Yeah I’ve just talked myself into a change.

    You mean Gerrans?

    March 18, 2013 at 8:10 am #722585
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    drheaton

    Teams picked, my purist is
    Teams picked, my purist is loaded with climbers, my standard with strong sprinters.

    Hoping to get a jump on everyone by having more sprinters than the rest tomorrow. Plus at 10 points each I can make a load of penalty transfers if I need to.

    March 18, 2013 at 3:37 am #722583
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    Squiggle

    I don’t know if I’m daft or
    I don’t know if I’m daft or not but there’s a bloke on my standard team who might do well in the first 2 stages but he just raced MSR so he’ll surely be ill by tomorrow morning. Imagine doing that race one day then jumping on a plane to Spain and starting a stage race the next day! I think I’ll probably take him out! He didn’t finish MSR but got way too deep into it before dropping out!

    Yeah I’ve just talked myself into a change.

    March 17, 2013 at 8:25 pm #722581
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    JAndrewHill

    For the vuelta in north east
    For the vuelta in north east spain,
    Picking my purists was quite a pain
    Bit now ive picked my man Losada
    With the columbian, Nairo Quintana

    March 17, 2013 at 8:19 pm #722579
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    JAndrewHill

    Two of my purists arent
    Two of my purists arent riding. Bye bye marcynski hello euskatel rider

    March 17, 2013 at 7:36 pm #722577
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    northstar

    Thanks Dr
    Thanks Dr B-)

    March 17, 2013 at 7:21 pm #722575
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    drheaton

    Start list has been updated.
    Start list has been updated. A few changes, and full Caja Rural roster up now too. Pick away!

    Will do a final update in the morning in case of last minute changes.

    March 17, 2013 at 1:11 pm #722573
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    TERatcliffe26

    Same my purist team is 2
    Same my purist team is 2 sprinters and 6 climbers/GC type guys and 1 cheap guy who could climb, could be in a breakaway who knows

    As for my team for stage 1 Ive gone for 5 stronger sprint types (so no Guardini, although i do have a teammate of his) along with 4 for the climbing/GC in aid of having 4 transfers for stage 3 to get rid of 4 of the sprinter types

    March 17, 2013 at 12:30 pm #722571
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    Alan Tullett

    Re: stage 1.
    Always best to
    Re: stage 1.

    Always best to look at the description of the route for detailed information (etepa detallada on the official site), profiles can be misleading, eg stage 6 TA. None of the average gradients or ramps are anything to bother a reasonably strong sprinter. Most commentators seem to think stage 1 will come to some kind of sprint. Always best to remember when choosing teams that different tours have different descriptions of categorised climbs so although it’s categorised as 1 here, in a Grand Tour it would probably be 3; it’s only 6km at 5.6% early in the race after all, so unlikely to be a turning point. The official description is:

    Rampas en 6 kms. – Desnivel medio 5,6% – Rampas maximas 8%

    As far as the game goes I don’t look at the stage descriptions at all. How the values are calculated is how the values are calculated. Last year and the year before it was more intuition, this year it’s more maths-based. They’re the same for everyone after all.

    With regard to choosing a team I’m looking at the stage description more now and less at the profile, whereas before it was the other way round. I would have won TA purist if I’d done that for stage 6 and seen how tough it really was and had fewer sprinters in my purist team. Luckily I checked before choosing my standard team.

    For VC though, in spite of what I’ve just said about stage 1, my purist team is going to be packed with climbers.

    March 17, 2013 at 11:06 am #722569
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    Gkam84

    MY BAD,
    I just checked the
    MY BAD,

    I just checked the official site, which does NOT show the profile very well at all. Check else where and you will see that Dr H has it set up right. đŸ™‚

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