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Ryan Eastman - Bontrager 2013 February
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 12-09-2012 15:39
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Nats should be great and excting, looking forward to it. Hoping for a surprising result from one of your team, maybe even you.
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| roturn |
Posted on 12-09-2012 21:39
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@Ian: First I wanted to write: Beat the sprinters, but actually there aren`t that many and Farrar is of course a bigger motivation for Eastman than Keough or Friedman.
@Alakagom: Hope so, too. First the TT, later today or tomorrow the RR.
USA Cycling National Championships - ITT
I never was the best time trialist and probably I will never be. But it is important for me to keep a rhythm so that I will have good legs for the road race in two days, where I have better chances than here.
Today I had a calm and relaxing day, wasn`t really trying to ride 100% and even had time to read some spectator`s signs...no Eastman sign... 
When I reached the finish I already knew that I won`t get a top30 today. In the end it was not even the top60. But the legs did well and gave me hope for the Road Race.
Brown and Boswell had good results so far, but our last rider is Lawson Craddock, our by far best time trialist.
We didn`t have a lot of time trials so far. Actually I can only remember the San Luis one, where Craddock was doing very well.
At the moment it`s Van Garderen leading but Phinney, Vandevelde, Leipheimer... still to come.
At half time Craddock was 7th and just 29s behind the 1st and ahead of Phinney, who seems to have a bad day. Looking good so far.
In the finish he was very close to Pate, who started ahead but also was riding under his normal level. And Craddock probably rode above his level.
He just lost another 9s to the new ITT champion TvG and finished on a great 5th beating Leipheimer or Zirbel.
Great result for our small team and also Brown and Boswell finished in the top20. This should give us a boost for the upcoming Road Race.
Result
| 1 |  Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | 33'44 | | 2 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 12 | | 3 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 22 | | 4 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | + 28 | | 5 | Lawson Craddock | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 38 | | 6 | Levi Leipheimer | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 39 | | 7 | Tom Zirbel | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 43 | | 8 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 57 | | 9 | Chris Horner | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 10 | Mike Friedman | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 59 |
Spoiler | 11 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC Racing Team | + 1'00 | | 12 | Nathaniel English | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'03 | | 13 | Andrew Talansky | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 1'07 | | 14 | Paul Mach | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'08 | | 15 | Ian Boswell | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 1'11 | | 16 | Nathan Brown | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 1'15 | | 17 | Timothy Duggan | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 1'18 | | 18 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 19 | Steven Cozza | Team NetApp | + 1'19 | | 20 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 21 | Scott Zwizanski | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 1'22 | | 22 | Roman Kilun | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'27 | | 23 | Danny Pate | Sky Procycling | + 1'30 | | 24 | Peter Stetina | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 1'31 | | 25 | Matthew Busche | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 26 | Ben King | RadioShack - Nissan | + 1'32 | | 27 | Chad Haga | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 1'35 | | 28 | Andy Jacques-Maynes | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'37 | | 29 | John Murphy | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'39 | | 30 | Björn Selander | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 1'40 | | 31 | David Williams | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 1'45 | | 32 | Stephen Housley | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 1'48 | | 33 | Jake Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 1'49 | | 34 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 1'50 | | 35 | David Summerhill | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 1'53 | | 36 | Chad Beyer | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 1'54 | | 37 | Jacob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 1'55 | | 38 | Robert Bush | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 39 | Nate King | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 1'59 | | 40 | Mike Midlarsky | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'00 | | 41 | Joshua Berry | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'01 | | 42 | Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 2'02 | | 43 | Lucas Euser | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 2'03 | | 44 | Andrew Bajadali | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 45 | Alex Howes | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 2'04 | | 46 | Thomas Peterson | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 47 | Gavin Mannion | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 2'05 | | 48 | Alister Ratcliff | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'08 | | 49 | Christopher Parrish | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 2'10 | | 50 | Bradley White | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 51 | Charlie Avis | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 52 | James Stemper | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | + 2'16 | | 53 | Greggory Brandt | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 54 | Jeff Louder | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 2'17 | | 55 | Kiel Reijnen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 2'21 | | 56 | Jonathan Reid Mumford | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 57 | Chris Butler | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'22 | | 58 | Christopher Jones | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 2'26 | | 59 | Thomas Scully | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'28 | | 60 | Cody O'Reilly | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 61 | Ryan Eastman | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 2'32 | | 62 | Joey Rosskopf | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 63 | Robbie Squire | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'33 | | 64 | Mike Olheiser | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 2'38 | | 65 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'43 | | 66 | William Dugan | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 67 | Taylor Sheldon | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 2'44 | | 68 | Alex Bowden | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 2'46 | | 69 | Evan Hyde | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 2'52 | | 70 | Ian Burnett | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 2'55 | | 71 | Edward King | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 2'59 | | 72 | Max Jenkins | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 3'08 | | 73 | Joe Eldridge | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 3'19 | | 74 | Jonathan Patrick McCarty | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 3'24 | | 75 | Cole House | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 3'28 |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 12-09-2012 21:41
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Good result for the team. And at least Ryan didn't finish last |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 13-09-2012 07:35
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Top 5 for Craddock is awesome, i hope some of his collegues will do the same surprise at the RR.Good luck for it! 
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-09-2012 08:54
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@Ian: Indeed. Ryan was riding early and I still had to find the optimal %.
@Avin: Thanks. Was pretty surprised to improve on the 2nd half. Had luck that guys like Phinney, Pate, Leipheimer obviously not in top form.
USA Cycling National Championships - RR
Almost 3/16 laps done and we finally have the group of the day. And it`s indeed me finding the good group today. And we have also a very famous companion in here. Levi Leipheimer decided to try it with the early move. Most probably as he has no team mates here since he rides for the Belgium Omega Pharma Quickstep team.
The other two riders are Nate King (Competive Cycling) and Robin Carpenter (Chipotle).
At about half of the race done, Garmin and Kelly Benefit start to do the pace behind. Garmin is the favourite team here as they have so many chances to win this.
86km left and 5'40 advance. We still work together very well. Carpenter already has some troubles and might fall back soon. In especially when Leipheimer is doing the pace on the uphill sections he always opens a small gap.
With 2 laps to go Leipheimer attacked. He surely is the strongest. King and I are a bit behind trying to close the gap again while Carpenter is gone.
Ben King (RadioShack) and Hincapie (BMC) attacked out of the peloton. So this is the moment where Dombrowski follows. We can`t wait for Garmin to bring Farrar in position as we already enter the last lap.
You see Nate King still ahead with Hincapie and Ben King now reaching him. I waited a bit for Dombrowski seeing that he couldn`t close the gap and support him with my last energy.
Unlucky Leipheimer. With 50m to go he was reached by Hincapie, who then was faster in the sprint to win the title once again in his very last season. Great success for him, now he can retire.
(Hate this Cya stuff, that single groups don`t sprint or even increase the pace in a sprint)
Joe with a good result. 4th behind the trio. Unfortunately he couldn`t close the gap, otherwise he might have been fought for the win. But still great result for us top 5 in both Nationals.
A Garmin trio rode out of the peloton on the last lap with Vandevelde, Howes and Peterson. Surprisingly no Farrar. They caught me before the line so that the 9th was the maximum today. I am pretty happy with this result as it will give me some more reputation in the USA, which I need when I want to call attention of bigger teams in the next 2-3 years.
And I was able to beat Tyler Farrar, who finished fastest of the peloton coming in 10th. So although Garmin has 4 guys in the top10, they must be pretty disappointing here.
Result
| 1 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | 5h21'41 | | 2 | Levi Leipheimer | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Ben King | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 4 | Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 1'29 | | 5 | Nate King | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 3'14 | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 3'48 | | 7 | Alex Howes | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 8 | Thomas Peterson | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 9 | Ryan Eastman | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 4'22 | | 10 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | + 7'01 |
Spoiler | 11 | Mike Friedman | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 7'14 | | 12 | Chris Horner | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 13 | David Summerhill | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 14 | Timothy Duggan | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 15 | Nathaniel English | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 16 | John Murphy | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 17 | Matthew Busche | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 18 | Jake Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 19 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 20 | Steven Cozza | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 21 | Robert Bush | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 22 | Paul Mach | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 23 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 24 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 25 | Mike Olheiser | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | s.t. | | 26 | Robbie Squire | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 27 | Bradley White | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 28 | Chris Butler | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 29 | Joshua Berry | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 30 | Jonathan Patrick McCarty | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 31 | Björn Selander | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 32 | Christopher Jones | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 33 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 34 | Alister Ratcliff | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 35 | Christopher Parrish | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 36 | Shawn Milne | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 37 | Chad Beyer | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | s.t. | | 38 | Edward King | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 39 | Jeff Louder | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 40 | Danny Pate | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 41 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 42 | Chad Haga | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 43 | Kiel Reijnen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 44 | Andy Jacques-Maynes | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 45 | Tom Zirbel | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 46 | Robert Sweeting | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 47 | Lucas Euser | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 48 | Ken Hanson | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 49 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 50 | Mike Midlarsky | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 51 | Cody O'Reilly | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 52 | William Dugan | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 53 | Roman Kilun | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 54 | Jacob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 55 | Andrew Talansky | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 56 | Taylor Sheldon | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | s.t. | | 57 | Alex Candelario | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 58 | Peter Stetina | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 59 | Jonathan Reid Mumford | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 60 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Sharp - Barracuda | s.t. | | 61 | Max Jenkins | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 8'31 | | 62 | Robin Carpenter | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 8'46 | | 63 | Thomas Scully | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | s.t. | | 64 | Isaac Howe | Kenda - 5 Hour Energy p/b Gear Grinder | s.t. | | 65 | Lawson Craddock | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 66 | Ian Boswell | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 67 | Gavin Mannion | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 68 | Nathan Brown | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 69 | Charlie Avis | Bontrager Livestrong Team | s.t. | | 70 | David Williams | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 9'26 | | 71 | Alex Bowden | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 9'58 | | 72 | Joe Eldridge | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 10'29 | | 73 | Joey Rosskopf | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 11'20 | | 74 | Cole House | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | s.t. | | 75 | Ian Burnett | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 11'33 |
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-09-2012 09:09
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 10:18
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Good result from Ryan. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 12:32
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A Great performance from Ryan in the road race
He can put the time trial down to a learning experience |
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 12:34
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One of the best stories, I think. Keep it up
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-09-2012 16:27
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Thanks all.
@aidanvn13: Great to hear you like the story.
The Vuelta a Colombia was first held in 1951 and except for 3 years the winner always came from Colombia. Their mountain goats normally dominate this race as it`s their main goal for the season.
It belongs to the UCI America Tour as 2.2 race and is obviously one of the longest races in this category stage wise.
15 stages expect the riders. An opening team time trial and a final individual time trial, 3 flat stages, 3 flat to hilly stages and 7 mountain stages, where the race normally will be decided. There you can surely expect a firework by the Colombians.
The startlist is extremely hard. The five Colombian teams all have 2-3 riders that could win the race. Lots of great climbers. With Buenahora, Baez and last years winner Cardenas there are even 3 former winners at the start.
For the non Columbians it`s just about trying to enter the top5, which would already a success seeing the competition.
Sprinting wise the startlist is a bit weaker although there are some great sprinters with Friedman, Havik, Zabel, Montiel or Angarita.
Due to a parallel race with the Tour d`Alsace later this month, we just participate with 6 riders. This will be a huge disadvantage for us. Still we thinkg we have a strong squad here. Joe of course will be our leader and aims a top10. To repeat his California performance I think his form is just not good enough and with all the Colombians peaking here, it might be almost impossible. Parker will be his main support in the mountains. But also Avis, who is having a great form should stay with them for quite a long time.
The rest of the team, Stuyven, Craddock and myself won`t feel good in the mountains and might try something on the easier stages. Most likely you can see us on some of the stages in the breakaway or in Stuyven`s case maybe even in the final sprint. Depending on his regeneration Craddock might even try to win the individual time trial.
Favourites
Columbians:
*** Baez
** Munoz Giraldo, Nino
* Cardenas, Buenahora, Ramirez Calderon
(Hard to choose as there are so many 76-78 climbers)
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*** Alarcon
** Dombrowski, Gutierrez Cataluna
* Fothen, Parker, Mancebo
Team Goals
- Top10
- Stage win
Personal Goals
- Top5 stage
- 2 breakaways
- supporting Joe also in the mountains
Edited by roturn on 13-09-2012 18:14
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-09-2012 16:28
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Very good result! |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 13-09-2012 16:33
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That's an excellent result in the TT with Boswell and in the RR with Ryan and JLD. Sponsors should be quite happy too. Well done Surprising Spanish's winner as well.
Volta should be a cracker, good luck
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 16:44
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Hope the Team has a Great race in Colombia |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 16:48
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Good luck in Colombia. Btw, what are the stage profile? |
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-09-2012 18:18
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@Alakagom: Thanks. I hope the sponsor is happy. They should be. Thought the same about Reynes and immediately checked the result page. Typical simmed result I guess.
@Sutty: Thanks. Hope so as well, but seeing that I don`t peak for this race, it might be hard against lots of peaking National bonus high quality climbers.
@Miguel98: I think it`s the 2010 route made by Armagetron. I edited the profiles into the preview now, but spoilered them due to their length.
As you can see the last two mountains might be the hardest. So these are the mountains I concentrate the most. Until then Dombrowski should have better form, so I hope I can keep the loss in the first climbs as much as possible. |
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Posted on 13-09-2012 19:47
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Stage 1 - La Ceja - Rionegro TTT (20km)
Welcome from La Ceja, a really nice small town in the West of Colombia. It`s not far from here to the Andes and tomorrow already we will be up there in the mountains for a while. But the really hard stages will come later and until then I will surely enjoy the race more.
It`s by far the longest race in my race schedule and might give me a first feeling of riding a GT, although it`s yet another week longer.
We start with a 20km team time trial. Except for Craddock none of us is good against the clock. But luckily also the other teams are more or less without strong time trialists in especially the GC teams as Columbians often struggle on the flat.
But having only 6 guys here will really give us a big disadvantage. Hopefully we will not lose too much today.
We started pretty slow as we didn`t know what to expect from this course and we never visited the course earlier. As expected Craddock did the most job but all of us went through the lead.
We highered the pace with every kilometer and when we reached the finish Dombrowski was at his limit althous Craddock could have gone faster today.
As we started in the first half we don`t know what our time is really worth.
In the end we can be pretty happy finishing 11th of 23 and jsut 1'08 behind stage winner Rabobank Continental. Most GC teams didn`t gain a lot of time on us, so this is another positive. Only real negative is that Parker lost contact in the end and although the gap was minimal he was counted +4s to the rest of us.
Result
| 1 | Rabobank Continental Team | 28'08 | | 2 | Gobernacion de Antioquia - Indeportes Antioquia | + 16 | | 3 | Cyclingteam De Rijke | + 36 | | 4 | EPM - UNE | + 39 | | 5 | Team NSP - Ghost | + 43 | | 6 | GW Shimano - Chec - Edeq - Envia | + 49 | | 7 | Itera - Katusha | + 50 | | 8 | Chipotle - First Solar Development Team | + 51 | | 9 | Koga Cycling Team | + 55 | | 10 | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 1'01 | | 11 | Bontrager Livestrong Team | + 1'08 | | 12 | Movistar Continental Team | + 1'13 | | 13 | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 1'16 | | 14 |  Azad University Cross Team | s.t. | | 15 | Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | + 1'20 | | 16 | Parkhotel Valkenburg Cycling Team | + 1'22 | | 17 | Azysa - Telco'm - Conor Wrc | + 1'25 | | 18 |  Geofco - Ville d'Alger | + 1'27 | | 19 | LA - Antarte | + 1'31 | | 20 | Rucanor - Line Cyclingteam | + 1'33 | | 21 |  Clube Dataro de Ciclismo - Foz do Iguacu | + 1'48 | | 22 |  Burkina Faso Cycling | + 1'52 | | 23 | Competitive Cyclist Racing Team | + 2'01 |
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Posted on 13-09-2012 20:31
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It's a good result! It happened to me in another TTT that you think that the whole pack finish at the same time but there is a little difference. 4 secs are not a big lose for him.
Let's see how the team develops in the next two flat stages before hitting the mountain.
Good luck!
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| HaRe |
Posted on 13-09-2012 20:37
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nice story so far  |
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Posted on 13-09-2012 20:53
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11th in a TTT, that's a good result!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-09-2012 22:55
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Not a bad time trial seeing that you only had one guy who is good against the clock |
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