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Ordino + Arinsal with nothing before
Stage 6: Picon del Buitre _/
LOL 25km of ITT
Laguna Negra __/
Aubisque+Spandelles+Tourmalet
Hourcere+Larrau+Belagua as expected
Bejes __/ (No Collado de la Hoz!)
Colladiella+Cordal+Angliru
San Lorenzo + Cruz de Linaresx2
208km, 10 climbs , 4200m of climbing around El Escorial to finish at Guadarrama
Meh!
Stage 20 looks incredible.
if GC is still open, and the team of the leader is not super strong, a lot is possible. But the percentages of the climbs seems not to great.
What can Mas do to finish second again with this route? Lose it to Ayuso?
I love when people in the one post complain about Uniperto stages then state four MT finishes in the first week is too much.
The Vuelta usually provides the best course designs of GT's and this is one of the better routes.
Stage 19 tooZaragoza always has the potential to turn into an echalon stage
We can go cry about Unipuerto but that's just Vuelta gonna Vuelta, but the big mountain stages deliver and stage 20 is *** awesome.
7/10 for me and it coudla been an 8 for me if the ITT was longer or if the TTT was an ITT.
- Stage 1 I wish was an ITT
- Barcelona is fine
- Arinsal is very good for a stage 3
- Stage 4-5 worthless flat stages but 2 and 3 are good
- Jalavambre is a decent pick for Unipuerto
- 7 is WFS
- Xorret de Cati is fine for a stage 8 like stage
- Stage 9 is very underwhelming for the end of week 1, but it's not like the 1st week overall is weak
- Stage 10 is the main problem - with this route it should be 40km at least. Probably more like 45.
- Laguna Negra is very mid at this stage in the race. I don't mind 1 or maybe 2 earliesh on but this is turning into too many.
- 12 is WFS
- Didn't like cutting Portalet, but adding Spandelles is a bery, bery nice sorpresa, especially with the day that comes after Tourmalet
- Larra Belagua is a great design. Literally the best 1-2 stage combo I remember in the Vuelta
- Stage 15 is weak. I don't think cutting Aralar is a disaster, but that clibm looks to be under 5% average and that's not gonna get it done
- Bejes is like the 2nd weak Unipuerto too many. At least it's not a sprint
- Angliru is Angliru. Doesn't really matter what you do with it., unless you go to really insulting stage distance. The important part of Angliru is to put it before the other mountain stage
- Stage 18 is not some Giro style tappone but it's good enough here considering attacking the first time up Cruz Linares should be pretty viable at this stage of the race
- Stage 19 is WFS unless wind
- Stage 20 is ballsy. I love it. And I love it a lot more than say stage 20 of the Tour where it's just a very mid Cat1/Cat1 combo
Don't let toby read this
Yeah, not that bad for a Vuelta route. Stage 14 is nice after stage 13 and I like stage 18 and stage 20 is potentially pretty awesome, Vuelta teams are usually not that suffocating when it comes to their firepower (insert footage of Froome and Poels dropping everyone on the Angliru while holding hands).We can go cry about Unipuerto but that's just Vuelta gonna Vuelta, but the big mountain stages deliver and stage 20 is *** awesome.
7/10 for me and it coudla been an 8 for me if the ITT was longer or if the TTT was an ITT.
- Stage 1 I wish was an ITT
- Barcelona is fine
- Arinsal is very good for a stage 3
- Stage 4-5 worthless flat stages but 2 and 3 are good
- Jalavambre is a decent pick for Unipuerto
- 7 is WFS
- Xorret de Cati is fine for a stage 8 like stage
- Stage 9 is very underwhelming for the end of week 1, but it's not like the 1st week overall is weak
- Stage 10 is the main problem - with this route it should be 40km at least. Probably more like 45.
- Laguna Negra is very mid at this stage in the race. I don't mind 1 or maybe 2 earliesh on but this is turning into too many.
- 12 is WFS
- Didn't like cutting Portalet, but adding Spandelles is a bery, bery nice sorpresa, especially with the day that comes after Tourmalet
- Larra Belagua is a great design. Literally the best 1-2 stage combo I remember in the Vuelta
- Stage 15 is weak. I don't think cutting Aralar is a disaster, but that clibm looks to be under 5% average and that's not gonna get it done
- Bejes is like the 2nd weak Unipuerto too many. At least it's not a sprint
- Angliru is Angliru. Doesn't really matter what you do with it., unless you go to really insulting stage distance. The important part of Angliru is to put it before the other mountain stage
- Stage 18 is not some Giro style tappone but it's good enough here considering attacking the first time up Cruz Linares should be pretty viable at this stage of the race
- Stage 19 is WFS unless wind
- Stage 20 is ballsy. I love it. And I love it a lot more than say stage 20 of the Tour where it's just a very mid Cat1/Cat1 combo
Don't let toby read this
Yeah stage 20 could underwhelm and it's the sort of stage where details can be very specific like if climbs are all 5-6% or there's no real ramps then it can be problematic.Yeah, not that bad for a Vuelta route. Stage 14 is nice after stage 13 and I like stage 18 and stage 20 is potentially pretty awesome, Vuelta teams are usually not that suffocating when it comes to their firepower (insert footage of Froome and Poels dropping everyone on the Angliru while holding hands).
So there's some places to try and in the very worst case the final climb has a murito km.Cruz Verde (first time):
Cruz Verde (second time):
La Escondida:
Santa María de la Alameda:
Robledondo:
Last climb: from km1 to km5 on this profile from PRC:
Roglic will come after crashing out of both Giro and Tour and everyone will know that 2nd is the biggest prize in the game.What can Mas do to finish second again with this route? Lose it to Ayuso?