Episode Topics:
Ruta Del Sol, Volta a Algarve, Tour Alps, Omloop Preview (Classics opening weekend)
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Strava:
Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347
Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453
Strava…..Stats of the week!
Sam - 0 miles
Aaron - 145 miles 7,129 ft
Ride of the Week:
Aaron - Silent Sunday, somo PR 45 miles 4,595 ft
Pro Cycling News:
Race Coverage:
Ruta Del Sol
Stage 1 - Fulgsang and Landa go solo - Strade style uphill finish through the city - Winner Fulgsang
Stage 2 - Fast descent 90+ kph leads over a bridge into an uphill finish - Caja Rujal rider goes in the last 750m and holds off the bunch (local knowledge) - Winner Gonzalo Serrano
Stage 3 - Late catch of the break in last 3 km - leaders start to make moves (tuens, landa, fulgsang, haig, izaguirre) Tight corners through city and tuens takes haig into the corner. Mcnulty comes up strong with 3rd behind Fulgsang and Bilbao - Winner Fulgsang
Stage 4 - Haig, Fulgsang, Landa and McNulty strongest of the race go off together. McNulty dropped (too aggressive). Winner - Haig wins 3 up sprint
Stage 5 - Tuens wins the TT just ahead of Fulgsang, Landa shits the bed (fuglsang, haig, landa overall)
Takeaways - Fulgsang is on fire, see if he can hold that over the season. Landa needs to work on his TT but still looks strong, Haig turning into a good stage racer and McNulty steadily improving
Volta Algarve
Stage 1 - Wellens tries to go, MVDP working for teammates - Winner - Jakobsen the strongest
Stage 2 - Steady climb to the finish and in the last 750m evenepoel rockets away, schachman looking strong but waited just too long to close and barely misses the sprint. 3rd place D martin (such a terrible suffer face) - Winner Evenepoel
Stage 3 - Sprint stage - Winner - Cees Bol goes long and other sprinters can’t out power him
Stage 4 - Steep finish - Joao almeda working well for evenepoel (mtn domestique on a classics team) and schachman also strong. Ineos riders look terrible, thomas dropped early. Superman Lopez breaks in the last 500m and holds off the rest - Winner MAL
Stage 5 - Evenepoel beats Dennis, solid TT from MAL (3rd overall) and same time for Schacmann who moves to 2nd overall - WInner Evenepoel
Takeaways - Evenepoel has won both stage races he’s ridden this year and crushed both TT’s. Schacmann looks great for ardennes style races, MAL looking good and must have worked on his TT, terrible TT for D Martin (no changes) and Ineos look bad in general
Tour Alps
Quintana takes stage stage win and overall, quietly showing renewed form. Early smaller race but included Pinot, Bardet, and Porte
Next Week Preview:
Omloop Preview
Favorites - MVDP, Stybar (anyone from DQT), Pedersen, GVA, Tuens, Kristoff
Wildcards - Bauhaus, Colbrelli, Kung, Boasson Hagen, Benoot, Terpstra, Naesen
