Giro d’Italia

Gecko-cyclist wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Mmm....2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition....I can see a pattern developing.

Well done Gecko...back on top in the purist.

Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both! Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny...

Thanks Gecko...but not true....next year i’m changing my name to Dr Yo-Yo....You, me, Minardi, Andy, Tony and everybody else all go through big drops and then rise back up. The game has been kind to me this past month but it’ll bite me again soon enough.

On reflection I think you’ve called it right for this race (I think I may have wrote it further up before it started) but I really didn’t think many players would be brave enough to backload as much as you have....I seriously think you may win this one if they all stay upright. Two or three of the few sprinter stages may turn out to be nothing of the sort....which will help you enormously...and well worth the gamble.

MikaelLie wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Gecko-cyclist wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Mmm....2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition....I can see a pattern developing.

Well done Gecko...back on top in the purist.

Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both! Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny...

Thanks Gecko...but not true....next year i’m changing my name to Dr Yo-Yo....You, me, Minardi, Andy, Tony and everybody else all go through big drops and then rise back up. The game has been kind to me this past month but it’ll bite me again soon enough.

On reflection I think you’ve called it right for this race (I think I may have wrote it further up before it started) but I really didn’t think many players would be brave enough to backload as much as you have....I seriously think you may win this one if they all stay upright. Two or three of the few sprinter stages may turn out to be nothing of the sort....which will help you enormously...and well worth the gamble.

 It’s the 1st time im playing in here, so I dont know the scoringsystem well enough. But this is my purist team:

Primoz Roglic
Elia Viviani
Simon Yates
Ilnur Zakarin                                                                            Bob Jungels
Ivan Ramiro Sosa
Vincenzo Nibali
Tony Gallopin   

Excellent. Thin first half but a strong second half coming your way.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

A very poor 29th for Izagirre, he’s better than that....Must have had an off day.

Saving energy to help Lopez later.

They have a fantastic team....and actually he may well have been doing just that. Quite devious some of those teams. Interesting listening to Wiggins today touching on such subjects.

Condor Andy wrote:

Not sure Winston, I was out on a ride and missed the start. My team:

Roglic
Dumoulin
Jungels
Izagirre
Campenaerts
Sivakov
Scotson
Bilbao

Like the Bilbao pick. You’re gonna burn a few transfers fairly early with that team...I didn’t actually do a plan for transfers so i’m Not sure if I could have loaded up more or not...

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

What happened to Izagirre?....I thought this would have suited him...

Izagirre was 13s down at the bottom of the hill, so must have lost a lot on the hill.

Lopez the surprise of the day, huge result for him. I doubt anyone saw that coming.

Dumoulin & Jungels disappointing.

I think I will regret picking Jungels for my purist team, it was him or Formolo. I went Jungels based on him doing a good ITT today.

Lopez is going to be very hard to beat now...even Roglic will be worried.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

What happened to Izagirre?....I thought this would have suited him...

Izagirre was 13s down at the bottom of the hill, so must have lost a lot on the hill.

Lopez the surprise of the day, huge result for him. I doubt anyone saw that coming.

Dumoulin & Jungels disappointing.

I think I will regret picking Jungels for my purist team, it was him or Formolo. I went Jungels based on him doing a good ITT today.

What’s your purist team look like Minardi...

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

What’s your purist team look like Minardi...

ROGLIC
YATES S.
DUMOULIN T.
JUNGELS
NIBALI
ZAKARIN
CARTHY
LONARDI

I was considering Formolo for Jungels and Kangert for Zakarin.

IMO Kangert is a very under rated rider & usually consistent.

nice team up the hills. I think Carthy will do well....he looked very strong last time out. I thought you would have gone for TDG....

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

nice team up the hills. I think Carthy will do well....he looked very strong last time out. I thought you would have gone for TDG....

I very rarely pick TDG in purist.

Also the Giro isn't the best for KoM points , not many riders get points.

Interesting that Ciccone did the whole ITT on a road bike in a non-aero helmet and currently has the best time on today's climb.

Looks like he may be hoping to keep Blue Jersey for 3 weeks.

 

He’s a great rider waiting to happen.

Who put time into who on the climbs amongst the GC boys?....Lopez must have done really well....

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

He’s a great rider waiting to happen.

Who put time into who on the climbs amongst the GC boys?....Lopez must have done really well....

Time on the climb

Ciccone 6:03

Roglic 6:06

Yates 6:07

Majka 6:17

Carthy 6:21

Lopez 6:25

Incredibly Lopez was 11th fastest on the flat section (was he getting a tow from the team car?).

That’s way above his norm. Very odd.  

As a Preston lad myself I just posted Carthy’s result on a couple of FB sites...i’ll Add that time to my post. Really good stuff from him. Nobody much in our home town has even heard of him...but they will have by the time I’ve finished.