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I think you can vary climbing and length of sections, you just need to make sure that they are reasonably fair. It could make for really interesting racing where you get guys like Tony Martin smashing it on the flat while Aru and Bardet etc. take the shorter mountain route. If someone could get it to work I'd be really interested in watching it.
There's a lot of camaraderie out on the road but the rules are there to try and enforce the race aspect I think. A lot of people are just trying to finish but the biggest part of the race isn't really the riding, it's the route and logistics planning and it's important to make sure people do it on their own. Seems to work very well and the community is brilliant. I was meant to do the TransScotland but couldn't in the end, hopefully make next year.sir fly said:Sounds funny. A good deal of competitive spirit involved, it appears.King Boonen said:sir fly said:
It's possible, there's a lot of discussion going on between folk about whether they should trade climbing for less km and I know several people will plot multiple routes for some sections so they can decide depending on how their legs are feeling. They're not allowed to share routes so just speculation at the moment but at least one person I've seen has said their route will have dot watchers wondering where the hell they are going in some places
You need these kind of long distance events for these multi-route type races, harder to do on a stage race.
It's something I've been thinking about for some time. To make it completely fair and square you'd need equal altitude gains and route length. A softer criteria would be only the altitude gain or the length. And you don't have to limit yourself in the sense of length of alternative sections. Maybe some minimum, either in the altitude gain or the length (say, some percentage of the overall altitude gain or overall length of the stage).
If they're, already, riding on numbers, give them an assignment.
I think you can vary climbing and length of sections, you just need to make sure that they are reasonably fair. It could make for really interesting racing where you get guys like Tony Martin smashing it on the flat while Aru and Bardet etc. take the shorter mountain route. If someone could get it to work I'd be really interested in watching it.
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