nicholas roche Volta a Catalunya diaries

ednwireland

i see nico has a new diary looks like the indo is doing this for all his races
oops linky

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/nicolas-roche-lsquomy-head-is-telling-me-irsquom-the-boss-but-my-legs-arenrsquot-listeningrsquo-2587266.html

decies

Any channel showing live coverage of this !!! Eurosport have highlights of this.

ednwireland

you should be grateful for live curling

Fender76

Poor Nico sounds like I felt yesterday... legs were just dead in the hills...

smush76

decies wrote: »

Any channel showing live coverage of this !!! Eurosport have highlights of this.

cycling fans, here's the link....
http://www.cyclingfans.com/live_race_coverage
are always a good place to look for live coverage of most races even if not aired on Eurosport, although they just appear to have delayed coverage for the Volta, and I'm guessing it will be in Spanish

Pablo_

whats a protected cyclist mean ? ( in roches diary)

ednwireland

Pablo_ wrote: »

whats a protected cyclist mean ? ( in roches diary)

means your designated a team leader and the other guys will go get you water bottles give you a wheel if you puncture rtc

Captain Havoc

ednwireland wrote: »

means your designated a team leader and the other guys will go get you water bottles give you a wheel if you puncture rtc

Well, sometimes they will

TinyExplosions

ednwireland wrote: »

means your designated a team leader and the other guys will go get you water bottles give you a wheel if you puncture rtc

Unless you're John Gadret...

ednwireland

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Well, sometimes they will

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Unless you're John Gadret...

i was waiting for those

got to love google translate (live stage ticker)

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biciciclismo.com%2Fcas%2Fsite%2Fnoticias-ficha.asp%3Fid%3D36877&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

The three escapees hold up your rent, 2:30.

A 25 kms from goal, the trio of escapees maintains its advantage.

The platoon regulates and keeps them within range.

Gastauer (AG2R), Smukulis (HTC-Highroad), Julián Sánchez Pimienta (Caja Rural) Gastau (AG2R), Smukulis (HTC-Highroad), Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Caja Rural)

to 2:40 Platoon.

A 30 kms from goal, the advantage is 2 minutes to Gastau, Smukulis and Sanchez Pimienta.

Now the race is about to finish the descent.

Three teams have borne the brunt of persecution in the alt de Sant Grau, Saxo Bank, Lampre and Katusha.

Dura Ace

Solid start from the Irish. Martin 14th, Roche 18th and Deignan 50th. All in the bunch, 28 secs down on the winner. Already, half of the field are out of the contention.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=36877

ednwireland

stage 1 highlights

http://www.esport3.cat/directes/especials/#cf

Pablo_

ednwireland wrote: »

means your designated a team leader and the other guys will go get you water bottles give you a wheel if you puncture rtc

thanks edn ... i knew team leader was minded by domestiques etc but thought this was something different ... nice position to be in i guess

ednwireland

great ride from dan martin 4th today big stage

clenbutador looked magnificant (apart from the big cloud following him:rolleyes:) mind wouldnt get that reaction outside spain i imagine

roche finished 41st 3.29 down

deignan down in 78 9:09

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 13:05:55
2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 0:00:23
3 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
4 Daniel Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:00:35
40 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:29
69 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team RadioShack 0:09:01

sy

Yep, looks like young Martin is setting himself up for a great season.
What a joke watching Contador ( yes probably the most gifted climber in the past 10 years) being cheered to victory. In my view (slightjy biased of course) Martin was the first untarnished cyclist over the finish line

Hail 2 Da Thief

I'm out of the GC hunt now but I'm going okay so there's no point in sitting around waiting for the race to end. I'll try and get up the road in the days ahead. I might as well try and attack

It'll be interesting to see if he can grab himself a stage win!

dastardly00

Stage 3 highlights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11BrgxGUwHI&feature=player_profilepage

TheBlaaMan

Another good day for Dan Martin,

finishing third in GC after Levi Leipheimer retired due to illness

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/volta-ciclista-a-catalunya-upt-1/stage-7/results

ednwireland

great ride from dan

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 29:24:42
2 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:00:23
3 Daniel Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:00:35
33 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:29
55 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team RadioShack 0:09:01