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McCartney was 3rd in the 2007 Tour of California, and I remember hearing a story that he hadn't touched his bike for the better part of a month before the race. Just some skiing when felt like it. An n=2 isn't much of a sample size, but less training more winning? That would be awesome! edit...

agreed. Looks like the gap is out to 2:52 min at 100km http://www.voltaalgarve.com/?page_id=599 I'd love to see these guys duke it at the end, but I'm guessing they don't have much of a shot. Anyone have any ideas on how big of a problem that bump at the end is going to be? A bunch...

The following fugitives have about 2:10 at 72km in Dries Devenyns (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Jan Bakelants e Matthew Busche (RadioSahck-Nissan), Sergio Pardilla (Movistar), Matti Breschel (Rabobank), Mikael Cherel (Ag2r La Mondiale), Greg van Avermaet (BMC), Jesus Hernández (Saxo Bank), Bjorn...

Decent sized group OTF Matteo Trentin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Christophe Riblon (Ag2r La Mondiale), Marcus Burghardt (BMC), Martijn Maaskant (Garmin-Barracuda), Kasper Larsen (Saxo Bank),t Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator), Ronan McLaughlin (An Post Sean Kelly Team) e José...

http://www.voltaalgarve.com/?page_id=599 We've got ticker-age if anyone is interested. Looks like a group of 5 off the front: Michael Cherel (Ag2r La Mondiale), Karsten Kroon (Saxo Bank), Sven Vandousselaere (Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator), Sérgio Sousa (Efapel-Glassdrive) e Ricardo Mestre...

The black garmin jerseys look to be cold weather & rainy weather gear. they were the same last year, too (i think)

Thanks for that! Alright Garmin! Way to miss the boat on that one! Anyway, interesting group, for sure. I'd love Txurruka to win, but if I were to bet, I'd takle GVA or Roche.

I love the translations of the tickers. There are 30 fugitives 7:30 ahead with 70km to go. At this point I would consider them to be less of fugitives, and more of "runners" or a different term that gets lost in translation. It would be sweet if they could get us a rundown of who all is there

That is just the stock Trek XO2 CX bike. Horner has had a similar one the past couple of years to ride the CX circuit here in the US. It is kind of nice to see that a bike that us mortals can afford is apparently good enough for pro roadies to mess around on.

I have no idea if it is possible, but a johnny hoogerland win would be a great start to the weekend

The feed is working for me to (thanks!), but I'm still trying to pretend that i am working. I always felt if I just watched and didnt post in the forms it didnt count as not working ha ha

Last year there was a race sponsored feed; it didn't have commentary but the footage was good. Hopefully that comes through again this year.

There should some video in about 20 minutes

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