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Tour of California Stage 8

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  • May 19, 2013 at 11:18 am #18834
    TERatcliffe26

    Well its been a good week for many teams, and now my team is in a mess, and looks like I will drop out of the top 20 overall due to the inevitable sprint.

    I was gonna bring in Sagan and Farrar for Meyer and Tejay. I would have liked to bring in Meersman too, but to do that would involve penalty points and taking out Rogers or Craddock, but is it worth it, as Meersman would have to finish at least 5th just to break even đŸ˜•

    On the other hand I could avoid Sagan, but that would still involve penalty points, but I fancy Sagan for tonight, to wrap up the points jersey

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  • May 19, 2013 at 10:50 pm #736939
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    TERatcliffe26

    Otis Bragg

    Otis Bragg wrote:
    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    NeilG83 wrote:
    johnny2names wrote:
    Surely they are still having breakfast in Cali!

    The stage started at 8.30AM local time.

    From previous experience the last stage of the ToC has always started much earlier than the rest of the stages, but I couldn’t tell you why

    According to Brian Smith, the early start was so that they could include crossing the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the route- bloody cyclo-tourists, eh?! ;)

    Cheers for that insight đŸ™‚

    May 19, 2013 at 10:44 pm #736937
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    MartyMcCann

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:NeilG83

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    NeilG83 wrote:
    johnny2names wrote:
    Surely they are still having breakfast in Cali!

    The stage started at 8.30AM local time.

    From previous experience the last stage of the ToC has always started much earlier than the rest of the stages, but I couldn’t tell you why

    According to Brian Smith, the early start was so that they could include crossing the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the route- bloody cyclo-tourists, eh?! đŸ˜‰

    May 19, 2013 at 10:05 pm #736935
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    JAndrewHill

    Are the points for stage 8
    Are the points for stage 8 going up sometime? I noticed it saysthe tour califormia is now closed, but o havent seen my stage 8 results…. đŸ˜€
    ;0)

    May 19, 2013 at 8:58 pm #736933
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    Ghedebrav

    Like every other participant
    Like every other participant I picked Sagan, but not a good day otherwise. Boekmans again disappointed, think I only have Thor in the top ten as well as the bumbotherer.

    May 19, 2013 at 8:20 pm #736931
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    chrisdstripes

    12468 for purists and full
    12468 for purists and full house for std – was hoping for a good last day and it went rather well. Will endeavour to not even look at the site for the whole day tomorrow now…

    May 19, 2013 at 6:44 pm #736929
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    stevemarks

    Great Weekend for Nett App!
    Great Weekend for Nett App! Those guys are rocking now shame about the TDF wildcard, anyone know if we are going to see them in the Vuelta?

    May 19, 2013 at 6:42 pm #736927
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    stevemarks

    TERatcliffe26

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    stevemarks wrote:
    Dr Heaton:

    I did say “a bit” and based it on the failure to score on the flat last time out (53rd), but there may have been a reason for that. I have not been able to follow the race too closely, due to the Giro and other commitments. Sometimes I feel Fantasy cycling is taking over half my life :O Like what am I doing on here now on a Sunny Sunday afternoon?

    đŸ‘¿

    Had to pick one of four sprinters to leave out and that was my reasoning.

    Think you may mean me not Drheaton.

    I wasn’t questioning your decision, I just didn’t think he was suffering. The reason he came 53rd on that stage was that the top 15 or so riders broke away and finished a minute ahead of the peleton, and so he probably didn’t feel the need to sprint for 16th or so. It takes up alot of my free time too, but as I finish work at either 8 or 10 its been easy just to come in and watch the ToC

    Sagan!

    Meersman fourth probably would not have been worth the penalty points although I would have been better leaving out Matthews.

    Sorry to confuse you with Dr Heaton I should have gone back and checked the thread.

    Good luck with the Giro, still hoping for a top twenty finish there myself.

    May 19, 2013 at 6:39 pm #736925
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    TERatcliffe26

    Full house for my standard
    Full house for my standard team

    1,3,9 then 2,3,5,6,7,8 on GC

    1,4,7 for purist

    May 19, 2013 at 6:37 pm #736923
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    TERatcliffe26

    Sagan
    Schorn
    Farrar
    Meersman

    Sagan
    Schorn
    Farrar
    Meersman
    Hanson
    Hushovd
    Matthews
    Keogh
    Chavanel
    ?

    May 19, 2013 at 6:35 pm #736921
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    TERatcliffe26

    Sagan wins
    Sagan wins

    May 19, 2013 at 6:34 pm #736919
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    TERatcliffe26

    stevemarks wrote:Dr Heaton:
    I

    stevemarks wrote:
    Dr Heaton:

    I did say “a bit” and based it on the failure to score on the flat last time out (53rd), but there may have been a reason for that. I have not been able to follow the race too closely, due to the Giro and other commitments. Sometimes I feel Fantasy cycling is taking over half my life :O Like what am I doing on here now on a Sunny Sunday afternoon?

    đŸ‘¿

    Had to pick one of four sprinters to leave out and that was my reasoning.

    Think you may mean me not Drheaton.

    I wasn’t questioning your decision, I just didn’t think he was suffering. The reason he came 53rd on that stage was that the top 15 or so riders broke away and finished a minute ahead of the peleton, and so he probably didn’t feel the need to sprint for 16th or so. It takes up alot of my free time too, but as I finish work at either 8 or 10 its been easy just to come in and watch the ToC

    May 19, 2013 at 5:53 pm #736917
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    stevemarks

    Dr Heaton:
    I did say “a bit”
    Dr Heaton:

    I did say “a bit” and based it on the failure to score on the flat last time out (53rd), but there may have been a reason for that. I have not been able to follow the race too closely, due to the Giro and other commitments. Sometimes I feel Fantasy cycling is taking over half my life :O Like what am I doing on here now on a Sunny Sunday afternoon?

    đŸ‘¿

    Had to pick one of four sprinters to leave out and that was my reasoning.

    May 19, 2013 at 5:19 pm #736915
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    TERatcliffe26

    NeilG83 wrote:johnny2names

    NeilG83 wrote:
    johnny2names wrote:
    Surely they are still having breakfast in Cali!

    The stage started at 8.30AM local time.

    From previous experience the last stage of the ToC has always started much earlier than the rest of the stages, but I couldn’t tell you why

    May 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm #736913
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    NeilG83

    Breakaway of 3 with 60km to
    Breakaway of 3 with 60km to go:
    De Gendt – Vacansoleil
    McCartney – Bissell
    Duchesne – Bontrager

    May 19, 2013 at 5:08 pm #736911
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    NeilG83

    johnny2names wrote:Surely

    johnny2names wrote:
    Surely they are still having breakfast in Cali!

    The stage started at 8.30AM local time.

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