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Ronald Gale's blog 2013 (Criterium d Dauphiné Libéré)
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 14:35
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Everything in this story is fictional!
Welcome to my Blog!
I have decided to start bloging. You might not know me so well so here is some information:
Name: Ronald "Ron" Gale
Team: H&M Racing Team
Trainer: Alan Peiper (Bel)
Born: 4th April 1989 in Aspen, Colorado
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Type of rider: Stage racer
Family: Mum and dad. No girlfriend, yet
Lives in: Girona, Spain with a couple of other team-mates
Idol(s): Andy Hampsten and Lance Armstrong
Started to bike: In 2003
Pro since: 2012
Biggest win(s): 2 stages and general classifications 2011 Ronde de Isard
1 stage 2011 Tour de Avenir
Results 2012:
Top 10 stage 3 stages (11,14,18) Vualta a Espana and 4th in Young Riders Classifications
4th on Stage 7 Tour of California (Mt.Badly)
Favourite races 2013: Tour de France, Paris-Nice and Tour de California
Results 2013:
5th General Classificatons and 2nd Youth Classifications: Tour of Oman
1st Youth Classifications and 10th overall: Criterium International
2 stage Victories and Points Classifications: Sram Tour of the Gila
1st Youth Classifications: Amgen Tour of California
2nd: American TT Championships
Edited by laidbackmarc on 18-04-2011 16:18
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| canojuancho |
Posted on 04-04-2011 16:20
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to high stats for an unknown rider.
Good luck anyway. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 04-04-2011 16:23
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Due to his very low hill stat he won`t get that great results  There are much more stages, where just the hill stat is important and even on several mountain stages it`S a mix of both stats and then he is just like 68 in climbing. |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 16:31
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@canojuancho I scouted him in 2011. 2012 he was in my team with an legendary trainer and evolution 0.8 he has become this great. As you will see 0.8 evolution has made several riders reaching high stats. If somebody know how two lower evolution in editor please tell me!
@roturn he has a couple of stars left in hills. He will probably reach 70+. But at the moment his hill stat sucks. 
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| roturn |
Posted on 04-04-2011 16:34
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DYN_manager in your savegame. Something like coeff_charac_evolution. |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 18:53
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2013 Stats (Note: Until now I have played with evolution 0.8)
Mountain:
Hill:
Sprint:
Time Trail:
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 19:05
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My Team
I remember that day after my 2 stage victories in Ronde de l'Isard when laidbackmarc, the manager of H&M Racing Team called me and asked if I wanted to join them. He offered a contract as young rider to 2014 with the wage of 2,000 euros. After a talk with my loyer I accepted his offer.
When I came to the team it was their first year in Pro Tour. However we managed to win Pro-Tour a few point SaxoBank and Astana. Now it is our second year and I think we are we even stronger.
The team:
/Ronald
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| AndySchleck |
Posted on 04-04-2011 19:17
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Wow, that is a STRONG team! Good luck with the story! |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 19:21
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2013 January + Start of February
My team-mate Edvald Boason Hagen have started this season great by winning Tour down Under. Andreas Lindén was also in great shape and won two stages after two solo breakaways. Lindén lost 10 minutes in the first stage and was not a big threat in the GC.
In February Löfkvist have been in good shape. He won Giro della Calabria and finish second in the Vuelta a Mallorca
Boason continued great by winning the Tour of Qatar in bad competition. He was the only 80+ sprinter and the next best sprinter was his lead-out man Michael Matthews.
My trainer Alan Peiper have given me my programme for February:
Spoiler 14-19/02 Tour of Oman 
Over and Out/ Ronald
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 19:33
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AndySchleck wrote:
Wow, that is a STRONG team! Good luck with the story!
Thanks. I will work as team-mate for Andy himself in the Tour later this season 
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| AndySchleck |
Posted on 04-04-2011 20:07
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Then he will have a very strong helper in the mountains! |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 04-04-2011 20:14
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As schleck said: very strong team =O
Good luck, looking nice so far =)
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| roturn |
Posted on 04-04-2011 20:43
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Indeed very strong.
Can you convert your pictures to JPEG first before uploading? Would be much easier to read as the file size will be 10x smaller and so easier to load your story thread for the readers. |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 20:46
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roturn wrote:
Indeed very strong.
Can you convert your pictures to JPEG first before uploading? Would be much easier to read as the file size will be 10x smaller and so easier to load your story thread for the readers.
Which is the easiest way to convert to jpeg?
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| roturn |
Posted on 04-04-2011 20:55
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Download the freeware "picture_converter" for example. That`s the tool I use.
I always choose the options: change to JPEG, quality 80% (3x smaller but I don`t see any quality loss), replace image, picture size as in the original.
Then all images converting at the same time in just a second and you don`t have to do the settings every time. |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 04-04-2011 21:32
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The day before Oman
Hi, I found this picture of me and two team-mates (Gatto and Schier) on todays training. (only found a free converter, will searching for another tomorrow). Tomorrow Tour of Oman starts. Looking forwad to the moutain stage!
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 05-04-2011 08:34
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Milan Pavlic did it!
First day of OMan . It is pretty hot here and the wind is blowing hard on the big ways. My swedish team mate Koretejärvi was in a solo break today!
When we caught him the peleton was split up in two pieces, I was in the first group.
Cameron Gosling was Milan's lead-out man and the lead out was so good MIlan finished 1st! Victory! We will be eating some really good food tonight to celebreate!
I finished a bit down at 38th
Results:
Spoiler 1 Milan Pavlic H&M Racing Team
2 Jonathan Bellis Endura Racing
3 Björn Thurau Team NSP
4 Marcel Sieberg Omega Pharma - Lotto
5 Cameron Gosling H&M Racing Team
6 Dominik Roels Team NSP
7 Maarten Neyens Landbouwkrediet
8 Giacomo Nizzolo Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
9 Hilton Clarke UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling
10 Pavel Zitta PSK Whirlpool - Author
38 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team á 0
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 05-04-2011 14:15
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Tour of Oman stage 2
Hard day today. There was some small hills in the end so I becam very tired an finished in the end of the peleton. Also Pavlic was tired and Schleck was my only team mate who had powers left for a sprint.
(All pictures from Tour of Oman I had converted disapered and I only found thoose converted with a free software.)
Results:
Spoiler 1 Emanuele Vona Acqua & Sapone
2 Bobbie Traksel Skil - Shimano
3 Giacomo Nizzolo Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
4 Maarten Neyens Landbouwkrediet
5 Adam Blythe Omega Pharma - Lotto
6 Russell Downing PureBlack Racing
7 Pierpaolo De Negri Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
8 John Degenkolb Team NSP
9 Elia Viviani Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
10 Krzysztof Szczawinski CCC Polsat Polkowice
11 Jarl Salomein Omega Pharma - Lotto
12 Andy Schleck H&M Racing Team
131 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 05-04-2011 14:22
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Stage 3
Milan got more power today, but he didn't manged to win and finished 6th. 
I had better legs today and finished 64th. Tomorrow is the mountain stage up to Green Mountain. I hope to take the Best Young Riders Jersey and finish in the top 10.
Results:
Spoiler 1 Emanuele Vona Acqua & Sapone
2 Bobbie Traksel Skil - Shimano
3 Maarten Neyens Landbouwkrediet
4 Adam Blythe Omega Pharma - Lotto
5 Giacomo Nizzolo Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
6 Milan Pavlic H&M Racing Team
7 Hilton Clarke UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling
8 Nikolas Maes Landbouwkrediet
9 Cameron Gosling H&M Racing Team
10 Carlo Scognamiglio Acqua & Sapone
64 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 05-04-2011 14:33
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A very hard climb
Big stage for me today. I knew that the Green Mpuntain climb was har but it really suprised me. It was really steep and Skil-Shimano drove hard.
Andy Schleck was the best rider and attacked with 4 kms to go
He also won. Nobody was even close to him today.
I sprinted hard in a group behind. My team mate Gatto also was there.
GAtto won the sprint over me and took the -25 jersey and the girls Thypical Italian!
Results:
Stage
Spoiler 1 Andy Schleck H&M Racing Team 4h48'54
2 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano + 1'44
3 Thomas Bonnin Skil - Shimano + 2'47
4 Vladimir Karpets Androni Giocattoli + 2'55
5 Gionata Gatto H&M Racing Team s.t.
6 Rory Sutherland UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling s.t.
7 Evgeni Petrov V Australia + 3'09
8 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team s.t.
9 José Ángel Gómez Marchante Caja Rural + 3'27
10 Javier Moreno PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t.
GC
Spoiler 1 Andy Schleck H&M Racing Team 17h06'46
2 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano + 1'52
3 Rory Sutherland UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling + 3'15
4 Vladimir Karpets Androni Giocattoli s.t.
5 Gionata Gatto H&M Racing Team s.t.
6 Evgeni Petrov V Australia + 3'29
7 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team s.t.
8 José Ángel Gómez Marchante Caja Rural + 3'47
9 Javier Moreno PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t.
10 Pasquale Muto Miche - Guerciotti + 4'07
Youth:
Spoiler 1 Thomas Bonnin Skil - Shimano 4h51'41 + 1'52 (3)
2 Gionata Gatto H&M Racing Team + 8 17h10'01 (1)
3 Ronald Gale H&M Racing Team + 22 + 14 (2)
4 Alexandre Geniez Skil - Shimano + 7'03 + 9'03 (9)
5 Daniel Schorn Team NetApp + 7'35 + 9'33 (11)
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