Summary: We are back bitches! Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal and goal. Ryan Charles with a hat trick and we completely dominate Harrow.

Rating: 9.1 - Even at 80% fitness I complete the full 90 minutes for the best rating of my career. That felt good. The icing on the cake was assisting the hat trick goal for my buddy Charles.


Player of Game: Ryan Charles, Witham (9.7)

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Summary: A nervous start to the day with a heavy downpour, but luckily it clears up before the finish. A straight sprint decides it.

Result: 16th - I picked the wrong wheel and I didn't really want to get up in the mix at the front in my first race back. I played it safe like my doctor, manager and mom wanted.

Summary: Another sprint finish.


Result: 77th - I got some TV time in a six-man breakaway. Over the final classified climb there was only four of us and I was driving the tempo.


We didn't have the juice to go the distance, getting caught with 20kms to go. Had we reached that final incline 5kms from the finish, I think I could have taken off and held off the peloton. At least that's what my aim was.

I was able to hang onto the back of the peloton to finish in the front group. Too bad I didn't win any time bonuses while in the breakaway.

Summary: Breakaway caught and it's mad dash up the final climb. Dylan Van Baarle claims the win and yellow jersey for home Team Sky.

Result: 14th - I picked my way through the field at a steady pace up the climb and settle for a Top 15, 25 seconds off the winning group of nine cyclists. On the bright side, I was the best UK finisher. In GC, I'm tied for 12th, 35 seconds back with teammate Ian Bibby.

Summary: The final mini incline proves to be a challenge and six cyclists get 23 seconds clear from the rest.


Result: 13th - For once, following the Sky member wearing the yellow jersey doesn't pay off. Dylan Van Baarle sputters on the final climb and I just stuck with him to conserve some energy. I've been racing a little too hard the last couple of days.

Baarle somehow gets lucky and keeps yellow. I've moved up into a tie for 10th place in GC, still 35 seconds back. Three flat stages and a time trial through London to come.

Summary: Marcus Diamond tries to stir things up with an attack with 5kms to go. The Team Sky mountain train is all over that. In the end, it just looks like a foolish attempt.


Jon Aberasturi goes on to take the win.

Result: 19th - It was worth a shot, but Team Sky shows why they are Team Sky. I've learned my lesson.

Summary: Another extremely close dash to the line.

Result: 12th - I don't have the top speed to match the stage hunters.

Summary: False attacks and real attacks can't faze the Sky boys. They handle everything thrown at them in the last 15kms to force another bunch sprint. How boring.


Result: 7th - I do everything in my power to try and overthrow Team Sky. Nothing worked. At least I recovered enough on the downhill to the finish to sprint for a Top 10. I'm tied in a 16-way battle for 10th in GC, 35 seconds back of Dylan Van Baarle in yellow. It's going to take the final TT to sort everyone out.

Summary: A Sunday stroll through London.

Result: 54th - Not a great day. I come in 58 seconds behind the winner Pavel Sivakov from Team Sky. I slot into 20th for GC, +1'24". I also finished fourth in the KoM competition with 20 minutes. Eighth best young rider. Most importantly, I finished the tour!

Summary: Up the final circuit and JLT Condor captain Ian Bibby has Marcus Diamond controlling the pace to reel in some late attackers.


Diamond makes the catch and keeps on going. Bibby gets stuck in traffic.


Diamond is leading the remaining field to the finish.


The finish line is in sight. Diamond isn't giving up the lead!


Result: 7th - That's one of the worst feelings in the world.

Summary: A selective group survives the day.


Result: 46th - Chalk this one up to inexperience. I got caught on the wrong side of a split and suffered. I know I'm better than this.

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- Stats work on a decimal system starting at 55.0.
- Stats are bumped up in PCM when they hit that number, ex. 55.9 = 55 in-game, and 61.4 = 61 stat in-game.
- The decimal numbers will remain hidden.
- There is a threshold for each stat when more points are needed to increase that stat. It's start off on a 1-to-1 scale where 1 point equals 1 stat upgrade. However, the scales get exponentially further and further apart the closer that stat gets to the maximum of 85. The increasing scale will also remain a mystery.
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