2010 Vuelta a Andalucia

[craig1985]

Kicks off tonight. Wiggins and Cavendish are racing.

Vuelta a Andalucia startlist - cyclingfever

Given that this is Cav's first race of the season, I have no idea what his form is like, but you would have to back him to get a couple of stage wins.

Quality field as well.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

How the parcours? Any tough stages?

 

[craig1985]

How the parcours? Any tough stages?

Their website was rather useless when finding that information. That, or I suck at Spanish.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yeah I tried searching too, limited information. It is a 2.1 race though (I think).

Well hopefully it has some testing uphill stages, Interested to see how mollema goes.

 

[rghysens]

I found all the stage profiles on their website (and I don't speak spanish), so yes, you must suck at spanish ;-) .

little summary:
stage 1: mountain top finish, last 3km about 15% on average, some stretches of 20%
stage 2: flat
stage 3: slightly hilly, last 500m uphill (not very steep)
stage 4: TT
stage 5: slightly hilly, last km 4% uphill

 

[stefrees]

first stage has andy schleck written all over it, if hes a little lacking in form, then his bro.

Stage 2 will be only chance for cav.

stage 4 is one for wiggo.

expect lots of attacks stages 3 and 5


now ive said that i'll be totally wrong

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I found all the stage profiles on their website (and I don't speak spanish), so yes, you must suck at spanish ;-) .

little summary:
stage 1: mountain top finish, last 3km about 15% on average, some stretches of 20%
stage 2: flat
stage 3: slightly hilly, last 500m uphill (not very steep)
stage 4: TT
stage 5: slightly hilly, last km 4% uphill

Seconded - just about the best foreign language website for a non grand tour I've seen, not quite sure how you could manage to not spot the copious info on every stage.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

first stage has andy schleck written all over it, if hes a little lacking in form, then his bro.

Just one problem with that: Andy Schleck is not riding the Ruta. He announced that earlier in his CN blog. http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/andy-schleck/welcome-to-the-club-pippo

Susan

 

[stefrees]

Just one problem with that: Andy Schleck is not riding the Ruta. He announced that earlier in his CN blog. http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/andy-schleck/welcome-to-the-club-pippo

Susan

Oops was using an old startlist. Money on frank then.

 

[craig1985]

TBF my internet at the moment sucks.

 

[BroDeal]

Oops was using an old startlist. Money on frank then.

It will be interesting to see how Cunego goes.

 

[Bike Boy]

Andre Steensen will try to do something

 

[Christian]

Money on frank then.

Believe me, I'd love for him to win but I seriously doubt it. He said in a Luxembourgish newspaper that he'd prefer "a more laid back start" than this hard stage. Also he "has no intentions of winning" the Ruta.

Furthermore, he seems to have quite a lot of respect for the climb, as he says on his twitter:

"Autch. I saw the finishing climb from 2morrow. That's gonna hurt "

Plus he even posten a photo of the climb:

http://tweetphoto.com/12005013

 

[Anonymous]

Their website was rather useless when finding that information. That, or I suck at Spanish.

Took me a while, they are buried

Route maps and profiles

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Took me a while, they are buried

Route maps and profiles

Errrr, they're on the front page, under the admittedly sneaky heading of stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 etc.

Do I have access to a better site than everyone else?

 

[Anonymous]

Errrr, they're on the front page, under the admittedly sneaky heading of stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 etc.

Do I have access to a better site than everyone else?

Yeh, when i was digging for route maps the site was still a complete mess..
Now its just a slight mess, click on the stage, click on the pdf button and sit back and wait while the pdf crashes. And completely useless on mobile, iphone etc..

 

[mortand]

Stage 1

1. Sergio Pardilla
2. Jurgen van den Broeck at 7 sec.
3. Damiano Cunego at 13
4. Manuel Vasquez s.t
5. Bauke Mollema s.t

Great start for Spanish climbing ace Pardilla. Happy to see van den Broeck and Mollema up there too.

 

[Mellow Velo]

There should be a video link somewhere soon.
The stage was televised live in Spain and a number of channels are taking a daily "stage diary" package. (10 minutes)

 

[Publicus]

So where did Wiggins finish?

 

[stefrees]

So where did Wiggins finish?

quite a way down id have thought, he was on front with a few others pulling back break i think (?) and lofkvist finished 10th

 

[ingsve]

So where did Wiggins finish?

78th 7'21'' down.

 

[stefrees]

great effort by steve cummings, only 1 min and a little down, in 20th.

the overall has mick rogers written all over it with the tt

 

[Kazistuta]

great effort by steve cummings, only 1 min and a little down, in 20th.

the overall has mick rogers written all over it with the tt

Has Mick done any great time trials since last years Australian Championship?

He seems to have lost the edge, he once had against the clock. I'd say Van Den Broeck, Löfkvist (Yak, I have to get used to that!), Monfort, Voigt or maybe even Larsson. Löfkvist and Larsson should be clearly better than Rogers.

 

[theyoungest]

the overall has mick rogers written all over it with the tt

The TT is only 11 km, so maybe VDB2 can hold on to his 14 sec advantage.

 

[ingsve]

The final stage also finishes on a slight uphill as well so if that hill is steep enough for the favourites then there's a chance to gain a few seconds there as well so even if someone is 5-10 seconds behind after the ITT all hope is not lost perhaps...