Maybe today we'll see a bit more of Philippe Gilbert-like action again today? Phil's Stage 5 attack was great, wasn't it, even if the terrain didn't quite favor a good late breakaway move. Maybe not steep enough, up or down? Maybe too far from the line?
Stage 6 though is supposed to have a lip at the end, something to favor a late-race attack. Before Caddle's announcement yesterday that he was not at the Vuelta to race but only to train (Damnit how I hate those little pronouncements: Even if they are being truthful, the riders should be forbidden to talk that crap), I thought that Stage 6 was made for him, especially the new, firery, racer-boy Cadel. Really, I could see it my mind's eye, he and Alejandro, the Green Bullet streaking and the Teddy Bear chugging, towards the line like in one of the Ardennes races! Now I don't have it there anymore, the vision I mean. Now I see AV ripping towards the line and Caddle training, conserving calories, calculating the net gain or loss of power in the new "volts to go" power meter readout.