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| welker3257 |
Posted on 18-08-2013 01:02
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Spoiler Before I start, my national tour story is dead, I just didn't have the motivation for it.
Database: PCM Daily RealName NC-2013 with slight edits
Evolution: 0.7
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Hello everyone, my name is Ian Boswell and I'm starting a blog just like many of the young riders in the professional peloton. I'm very anti-doping and growing was a huge Lance Armstrong fan. I now want to prove to the US that you can win clean. I was born in Bend, Oregon and my dad got me into cycling at a young age, as he was a professional triathlete. In 2010 I rode as an amateur for Bissell and won the Nevada cycling classic and finished 3rd in the Tour of Utah, which is my favorite race. For the past two years I rode for Bontrager-Livestrong as well as for Argos-Shimano as a stagiaire. My biggest results over that time span were: another Nevada Cycling Classic win, 2nd in U23 Liege-Bastonge-Liege, 5th in the Tour of Utah, and 5th in the Tour de I'Avenair. After 2012 I signed with Team Sky along with fellow American Joe Dombrowski.
Height: 1.85 M
Weight: 70 Kg
Edited by welker3257 on 06-02-2014 02:04
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Team Presentation
Team Leaders
Although I'm a little suspicious of him, Chris Froome is no doubt the best stage racer in the world at the moment. He will target the Tour de France and Tirreno-Adriatico.
Bradley Wiggins is the team's best time-trialist and will target the Giro D'Italia this year.
Protected Riders
Sergio Henao is one of the team's duo of Colombians, he will target the Ardennes and the Vuelta a Espana.
Rigoberto Uran is the other Colombian and will ride the Giro in support of Wiggo and will Co-Lead at the Vuelta.
The Australian Richie Porte will be Froome's number one man in the mountains of the Tour this year. He will get to lead some races like Paris-Nice and the Dauphine.
Rest of the Team
Here is the rest of the team, we have 27 riders and our goal is to come first in the WT this year.
Edited by welker3257 on 18-08-2013 01:12
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My Stats
I've been given the role of Young Rider this season and will only have free roles in smaller races. I will co-lead with Dombrowski in the American Races.
Palmares
GT Results
2013 Giro: WTD
WT Races
| 2013: Tirenno-Adriatico: 21st | | Tour of the Basque Country: DNF | | Amstel Gold: 18rd | | Fleche Wallonne: 23rd | | Liege-Bastonge-Liege: 26th | | Tour of Romandie: 13th |
Other Results
Tour of Oman: 8th
Strade Bianchi: 10th
Route of Elk Grove: 5th
Tour of Utah: 1st + 2 stages
USA Pro Cycling Challenge: 1st
Victories: 4
2014
Grand Tours
WT Races
Tirreno-Adriatico: 1st + 2 stages + points + U25
Tour of the Basque Country: 1st + U25
Amstel Gold Race: 5th
Fleche Wallonne: 6th
Liege-Bastonge-Liege: 4th
Other Races
Tour of Oman: 1st + 1 stage
Victories: 6
Schedule
Part One
 Tour of Oman- I start my Pro Career in Oman.
 Strade Bianchi- My first Hilly Classic in as part of the European Tour
Tirreno-Adriatico- My First WT Tour race is in Italy in support of Froome
Part Two
 Tour of the Basque Country- I hope for a good result in the final TT
 Paris Camembert-Lepetit- I will be co-leader at this race with Kennaugh
 Amstil Gold Race- I hope to help Henao to the win
 Fleche Wallione- Hopefully I can get into the breakaway
Liege-Bastonge-Liege I have had success in the U23 version of this race
 Tour of Romandie- I'm targeting the KOM in this race
Giro D' Italia- I take part in the first GT of the year, alongside Dombrowski in support of Wiggins. After this I take a long break.
Part Three
 Route of Elk Grove- Just using this race to get back in form
Tour of Utah- I will be the leader at this race and hope for a good result
USA Pro Cycling Challenge- My last race as leader for the season
Paris-Bruxelles- My last European race of the year
 GP Quebec- I will support Eddie Boss here
GP Montreal- My last race of the season, Hopefully I'm not too burned out.
Total Race Days: 70
Edited by welker3257 on 12-01-2014 15:18
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 18-08-2013 01:39
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Good luck with this story! Too bad the National Tour is dead  , but I'll definitely follow this one.
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| wogsrus |
Posted on 18-08-2013 01:47
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-08-2013 01:50
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You ended national tour? 
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Posted on 18-08-2013 01:54
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Best of Luck with this!
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 18-08-2013 02:02
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All: Thanks , hope goes farther than 12 pages which is what both my stories stopped at.
Tour of Oman stages 1 and 2 up in about 2 hours.
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Posted on 18-08-2013 02:07
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welker3257 wrote:
All: Thanks , hope goes farther than 12 pages which is what both my stories stopped at.
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I used to be the same until I did a one rider story. So much easier and better for your motivation.
are you going to race the stages that Ian isn't riding, or just sim them?
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| baia |
Posted on 18-08-2013 02:22
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Good luck welker..
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Posted on 18-08-2013 02:29
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Thehoyle: I will quick sim races that Ian doesn't ride
baia: Thanks
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Posted on 18-08-2013 02:34
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GL with this, hopefully evolution 0.7 will keep you motivated.
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Posted on 18-08-2013 03:58
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547984- Thanks, I usually play on 1.0 so it will feel slow for me
NOTE: Most flat stages will have really short reports similar to these first two stages as Ian won't ever be part of a leadout train this year.
Tour of Oman Preview
Chris Froome starts his season here as the leader. Cataldo and Kiryienka are his main helpers. I'm here as a pure domestique for the flat stages. Thomas and Stannard are free to attack whenever they please. I hope to just me a good team helper and maybe finish in the top 25 in GC.
Today's stage is pan-flat with only 1 cat 4 on the route. I expect a bunch sprint.
The Race
Adam Phelan of Drapac was the day’s sole escapee of the day. He will be rewarded with wearing the KOM jersey tomorrow.
Here is me riding at the front during my first race as a professional, I’m protecting Cataldo right now.
Me and Puccio took turns getting water bottles for the rest of the team. Here is me getting water with about 75 km to go. Phelan had a gap of 2 45 at this time.
The rest of the stage was uneventful, Phelan was caught with about 25 km to go and the stage ended in a sprint, which was won by Cavendish with about 500 m to second place Meersman. In fact he was given a gap of 22 seconds over his teammate.
I safely finished my first professional stage in 70th place.
Results
This stage is classified as flat although two hills are climbed in the last 15 km. Expected a solo win for a reduced field sprint.
The Race
Shortly after the sprint point three riders broke away from the peloton. They were: Tuft of Orica-Greenedge, Konovalovas of MTN-Qhubeka, and Padour of Team Bauknecht.
Today I had a nice conversation with Brent Bookwalter. He’s a cool guy, and a lot easier to understand than the guy on my left Dani Moreno.
On the last climb Froome wasn't feeling great so Geraint Thomas put in a move around the top of the climb and got a gap!
And he took the team’s first win of 2013! Geraint Thomas with the win! Moreno takes second ahead of Contador.
One Minute later the bunch crossed the line lead by Meersman, I finished safely in around 50th place.
Stage Results
| 1 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 3h16'57 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 4 | Gianni Meersman | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 58 | | 5 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 6 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Vasil Kiryienka | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Clarke | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 10 | Juan José Cobo | Movistar Team | s.t. ... | | 48 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | s.t. |
GC Standings
| 1 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 6h41'21 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 8 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 12 | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 26 | | 5 | Gianni Meersman | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1'06 | | 6 | Mark Renshaw | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 1'10 | | 7 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | + 1'16 | | 8 | Theo Bos | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Clarke | Orica - GreenEdge | + 1'18 | | 10 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 12 | 45 | | 2 | Gianni Meersman | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 14 | 34 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 16 | 28 | | 4 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | 20 | 25 | | 5 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 25 | 25 |
KOM
| 1 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 6 | 6 | | 2 | Ignatas Konovalovas | MTN - Qhubeka | 6 | 6 | | 3 | Adam Phelan | Drapac Cycling | 0 | 5 | | 4 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | 4 | 4 | | 5 | Svein Tuft | Orica - GreenEdge | 4 | 4 |
U25
| 1 | Egor Silin | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | 6h42'39 (1) | | 2 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | 3h17'55 | + 0 (2) | | 3 | Salvatore Puccio | Sky Procycling | s.t. | + 0 (3) ... | | 13 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | s.t. | + 0 (13) |
Post Race Comments- Well, first off, great win for Geraint! We will defend that leader's jersey tomorrow although it's unlikely that he will keep it on stage 4. I hope to have a good day on that stage and maybe get my first white jersey, although I think Kelderman or Van Gardren will do better than me. See you then
- Ian
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Posted on 18-08-2013 07:42
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Nicely done with G. Thomas
Great start in the season, i guess we will see lots of such screens(winning) this season..
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Posted on 18-08-2013 08:16
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Good start 
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Posted on 18-08-2013 09:09
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Awesome. Good luck! |
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Posted on 18-08-2013 09:16
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Hadnt wished you good luck yet, so here it is: Good luck!
Great start as well for Geraint.
Spoiler two little things, in your calendar you wrote Amstil Gold Race and Fleche Wallionne, which should be Amstel and Wallonne
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Posted on 18-08-2013 14:10
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baia: thanks, hopefully the they are of Ian winning
Cycleman123 and Ian Butler: Thanks
Selwink: Thanks, I don't think that I have ever spelled all 3 of them correctly at one time.
Stage 3 up in about 5 minutes
Edited by welker3257 on 18-08-2013 14:10
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Today's stage is a 193 km ride across mostly flat lands. The finish is slightly uphill so Geraint will contest the finish. Hopefully he can get a top 5.
The Race
A four man group got away from the start of the stage, they were: Kozubek of Bauknecht, Pichot of Europcar, Delle Stelle of Bardiani, and Konovalovas of MTN-Qhubeka.
I took part in the chase of the breakaway today, in support of Geraint's jersey. The break was brought back with around 20 km to go.
Jump to the last kilometer and Cavendish has mis-judged the uphill finish and is dying out there. Who will win?
We have a surprise winner as Thomas Voeckler takes his first win of the year! Thomas finishes second and picks up key bonus seconds. Marko Kump of Saxo Bank takes third. I finish 59th in the center of the bunch alongside the rest of the team.
Stage Results
| 1 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | 4h17'57 | | 2 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 3 | Marko Kump | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Simon Clarke | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 6 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 7 | Mark Renshaw | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 9 | Baden Cooke | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 10 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. |
GC Standings
| 1 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 10h59'06 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 20 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 24 | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 38 | | 5 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 1'10 | | 6 | Gianni Meersman | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1'18 | | 7 | Mark Renshaw | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 1'22 | | 8 | Marko Kump | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 9 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | + 1'28 | | 10 | Theo Bos | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. ... | | 59 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 14 | 59 | | 2 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 20 | 45 | | 3 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | 25 | 39 | | 4 | Gianni Meersman | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 2 | 36 | | 5 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 6 | 34 |
KOM
| Rank | Name | Team | Mountain | General | | 1 | Ignatas Konovalovas | MTN - Qhubeka | 4 | 10 | | 2 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 0 | 6 | | 3 | Alexandre Pichot | Team Europcar | 6 | 6 | | 4 | Adam Phelan | Drapac Cycling | 0 | 5 | | 5 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | 0 | 4 |
U25
| 1 | Marko Kump | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 4h17'57 | 11h00'28 (1) | | 2 | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | s.t. | + 8 (2) | | 3 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | + 8 (3) ... | | 11 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | s.t. | + 8 (11) |
Post race comments- Another good day for the team. Our goal was to keep the leader's jersey and we extended the lead. Tomorrow is the summit finish at Green Mountain and I hope to help Froome and Thomas to a good finish. See you then!
-Ian
Edited by welker3257 on 18-08-2013 14:40
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Today's stage is flat for the first 130 km, then ends with a 8 km climb that is very steep. We want to win the stage with Froome, while trying to keep Thomas in a good GC position. My job is to set the pace on the lower slopes of the climb, I hope to finish in the top 25.
The Race
A six man group got away after about 10 km. The group included: Kern of Europcar, Pagani of Bardiani, Bookwalter of BMC, Lutsenko of Astana, Mendes of NetApp, and Castroviejo of Movistar.
For some reason, Europcar really didn’t like the group up the road and brought them back with 35 km to ride.
At the start of the climb I'm on the front as the attacks start to rain.
With 5 km to go I swing off and I'm pleased with my work, the only person that has gotten away is Daniel Moreno of Katusha and Froome has used almost zero energy.
With 3.5 km to go a group of six has formed: Froome and Cataldo, Moreno, Contador, Voeckler, and Gesink. I'm in the next group of about 30 riders with Thomas and Kiryienka.
With 1.5 km to go Froome has cracked Contador and the rest and is riding away to the summit.
Chris Froome takes the solo win! Contador takes second losing 40 seconds to Fromme. Moreno is third ahead of Gesink and Voeckler.
I finish 22nd in a group with Cobo, Kessiakoff, Weeining, and Kelderman. I'm definitely happy with my finish today.
Stage Results
| 1 | Chris Froome | Sky Procycling | 3h21'31 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 37 | | 3 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 1'09 | | 4 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 1'26 | | 5 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 6 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | + 1'59 | | 7 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | + 2'35 | | 8 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Spilak | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. ... | | 22 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | s.t. |
GC Standings
| 1 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 14h21'26 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Sky Procycling | + 21 | | 3 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 32 | | 4 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | + 1'44 | | 5 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 1'47 | | 6 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 2'07 | | 7 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | + 2'40 | | 8 | Simon Clarke | Orica - GreenEdge | + 3'16 | | 9 | Simon Spilak | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 10 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | s.t. ... | | 19 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 3'49 |
Points
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 0 | 59 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 20 | 54 | | 3 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | 12 | 51 | | 4 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 2 | 47 | | 5 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | 16 | 42 |
KOM
| 1 | Chris Froome | Sky Procycling | 16 | 16 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | 10 | 14 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 12 | 14 | | 4 | Ignatas Konovalovas | MTN - Qhubeka | 0 | 10 | | 5 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 8 | 8 |
U25
| 1 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | 14h24'42 (1) | | 2 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 0 (2) | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 0 (3) | | 4 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 33 (4) |
Post Race Comments- Another great day for Team Sky. We get a second win in Oman with Froome. We have two in the top 5 and Cataldo is in 7th. I hope to help the Froome take over the GC lead tomorrow.
See you then- Ian
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