2011 Tour of Utah 2.1 August 9-14

[Moose McKnuckles]

This TT is a bike handler's course. It's more twisty than Fabiani's logic. It can be very windy, but today seems calm so far. Last time we raced out there, the wind was brutal.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

BTW the results are up there.

 

[ferryman]

This TT is a bike handler's course. It's more twisty than Fabiani's logic. It can be very windy, but today seems calm so far. Last time we raced out there, the wind was brutal.

It's more twisty than Fabiani's logic

Looks like it could well be a Shack 1-2 in the GC after the ITT. Not sure at all what to make of Saturday's stage but Sunday to Snowbird cool should see some great action from the Gober guys. I've really got into this race

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay... I'm a very impatient girl!

*Goes to check if the feed is up*

Nope... five minutes later...

*Goes to check again*

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Trying to make this less spammy...

Had a brief look at the route on the Tour Tracker site. Twisty indeed.

 

[cineteq]

Okay... I'm a very impatient girl!

*Goes to check if the feed is up*

Nope... five minutes later...

*Goes to check again*

The official site says it'll start at 5pm and finish at 8pm (local time).
Which is UTC-7:00

 

[RedheadDane]

The official site says it'll start at 5pm and finish at 8pm (local time).
Which is UTC-7:00

Yeah... problem is I dunno when that is in my TZ. Hardly even know what TZ I am in... GMT +1 I think... or maybe +2 due to DST... or... See? I'm timeconfused!

 

[slcbiker]

It's more twisty than Fabiani's logic

Looks like it could well be a Shack 1-2 in the GC after the ITT. Not sure at all what to make of Saturday's stage but Sunday to Snowbird cool should see some great action from the Gober guys. I've really got into this race

Saturday's stage is going to be hard. No huge climb, but a medium sized one that has to be done a bunch of times. At 5000ft elevation in 90F heat. I could easily see a group getting away and staying away.

 

[slcbiker]

Yeah... problem is I dunno when that is in my TZ. Hardly even know what TZ I am in... GMT +1 I think... or maybe +2 due to DST... or... See? I'm timeconfused!

Start is in a bit less than 4 hours.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Yeah... problem is I dunno when that is in my TZ. Hardly even know what TZ I am in... GMT +1 I think... or maybe +2 due to DST... or... See? I'm timeconfused!

Forget it. In European time zones, we get two stages.............both on Saturday.
Starts at 01-00CET.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Saturday's stage is going to be hard. No huge climb, but a medium sized one that has to be done a bunch of times. At 5000ft elevation in 90F heat. I could easily see a group getting away and staying away.

Yep. That climb to the Capitol is short but fairly steep. I expect to see groups of people all over the place. I think Garmin will make this hard. I don't see them waiting for the last day. Maybe they will, and attack at the bottom of the Sundance climb.

 

[cineteq]

Yeah... problem is I dunno when that is in my TZ. Hardly even know what TZ I am in... GMT +1 I think... or maybe +2 due to DST... or... See? I'm timeconfused!

It seems it's gonna be around 1am your time...it will start in 3hrs 45min

 

[maltiv]

Yeah... problem is I dunno when that is in my TZ. Hardly even know what TZ I am in... GMT +1 I think... or maybe +2 due to DST... or... See? I'm timeconfused!

Denmark is GMT+2.

 

[ferryman]

Yep. That climb to the Capitol is short but fairly steep. I expect to see groups of people all over the place. I think Garmin will make this hard. I don't see them waiting for the last day. Maybe they will, and attack at the bottom of the Sundance climb.

Is Sundance the big beast starting at the 50K mark?

 

[ferryman]

Saturday's stage is going to be hard. No huge climb, but a medium sized one that has to be done a bunch of times. At 5000ft elevation in 90F heat. I could easily see a group getting away and staying away.

At 5000ft elevation in 90F heat.

That will make Henao and his comprads feel like they're back home

3 v interesting stages left

 

[Swede1]

I hope Brajkovic and Levi pull out good TT's so that Henao and Sevilla will have to attack them on Saturday and Sunday.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I hope Brajkovic and Levi pull out good TT's so that Henao and Sevilla will have to attack them on Saturday and Sunday.

Isn't that a bit like saying you just hope that Levi wins?

What's wrong with Henao pulling out another great effort against the clock, so that Levi has to attack him on Saturday and Sunday?...........
........Oh, wait.

 

[hrotha]

Didn't Henao say he responded to an attack by Levi, which the TV coverage tragically missed?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Is Sundance the big beast starting at the 50K mark?

That's it. First 3 miles are very hard. Once you hit Sundance, the elevation gets more gradual. The descent is very fast. People hit 60 mph there.

Next climb is gradual and tops out at 8%. Super fast descent after that.

Snowbird is just hard. It doesn't even go to the top. There are 2 more miles of climbing to Alta. Then the climb continues after that up to the Catherine Lake parking lot!

 

[LaFleur]

Didn't Henao say he responded to an attack by Levi, which the TV coverage tragically missed?

But it didn't miss it? Pretty sure I saw Levi speeding and Henao starting a chase from the bunch from the TV

 

[hrotha]

But it didn't miss it? Pretty sure I saw Levi speeding and Henao starting a chase from the bunch from the TV

Wow, that's valuable footage right there, then. Like a chimpanzee battle captured on video or something.

 

[Izzy eviel]

Is there any footage of the racing so far on the internet? All I could was this on youtube. http://youtu.be/ITopbkoovHs

 

[Anonymous]

Is there any footage of the racing so far on the internet? All I could was this on youtube. http://youtu.be/ITopbkoovHs

cyclingtorrents

prologue, stage 1 and stage 2
http://cyclingtorrents.nl/browse.php?search=tour+of+utah&_by=0&cat=0&incldead=0&language=0

stage 1 is on canalf10's youtube but thats it. nothing on dailymotion either

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

cyclingtorrents

prologue, stage 1 and stage 2
http://cyclingtorrents.nl/browse.php?search=tour+of+utah&_by=0&cat=0&incldead=0&language=0

stage 1 is on canalf10's youtube but thats it. nothing on dailymotion either

You guy Henao is going to be a big addition for Sky. He's solid. He never really looked in difficulty when Levi attacked.

 

[royalpig180]

When does today's stage start?

 

[jsem94]

One or two hours. I'm trying to stay up, it's almost 1am for me now.

I think I'll just read the results tomorrow morning though...


Edit: http://ec2.tourofutah.com/tourtracker/

They're showing footage already..