Alex Bowden
William Dugan
Joe Eldridge
Kiel Reijnen
Joey Rosskopf
Alexander Serebryakov
Gary Sutton
Martijn Verschoor

Alex Bowden
William Dugan
Joe Eldridge
Kiel Reijnen
Joey Rosskopf
Alexander Serebryakov
Gary Sutton
Martijn Verschoor

One of the first riders to set a really good time is the time trial specialist from Team Optum Tom Zirbel. He covers the 22.8 kilometre course in a time of 31m 59s

Lots of riders have tried and come nowhere near his time but the closest at the moment is Andrew Tennant of Rapha Condor who finishes 52s back

Our Dutch rider Martijn Verschoor, one of the few riders within the team who actually suffers with Type 1 diabetes gives it his best shot but will finish the day in a very poor position of 151st at 2m 10s

By now over half the field has finished the course and still nobody has got close to Zirbels time and then Carter Jones who was just two seconds down at the halfway point comes in to the finishing straight, can he be the one, but no, he finishes 38s slower

One of the pre-stage favourites Joseph Dombrowski of Bontrager Livestrong gives it is all but will finish in 9th spot at 40s

Whilst time trialling is one of my strong points, i think riding in my first Professional race got the better of me and i finished a very disappointing 146th at over 2m behind

Fellow Britain Ed Clancy of Rapha Condor would get to within 25s of the lead time

But Bob Jungels of the Leopard Trek Continental Team would go even better and get to within a single second of Zirbels time

The last man to finish todays stage is Huub Duyn of Cyclingteam De Rijke who puts in an impressive time to grab 6th place

Tom Zirbel Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies

Bob Jungels Leopard - Trek Continental Team

Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies

The result was as we expected, we never really had any hopes of a high finish today as this is the guys first outing of the season apart from Alexander, but lets hope we can challenge for a jersey or something before the end of the race

Four riders have an advantage of 2m 46s from the main pack, they are Cooke/XRG, Miller/JSH, Clarke/UHC and myself as I try to give myself a morale boost after yesterdays disappointing time trial

The lead has grown to 5m 38s due to the hard work we are all doing together

With a number of teams joining forces at the front of the peleton, the advantage is getting reduced at a dramatic rate

Due to fatigue beginning to be a factor we have lost another minute in the last ten kilometres, 2m 31s is all we have in our favour now

Cooke/XRG has decided its time to liven things up and has attacked just before the twenty kilometre to go banner

I'm the last to get reeled in by the fast moving peleton which just happens to be lead by my team mates

The team is looking super cool but the bad news is, is that Serebryakov is struggling on the final little climb and cannot hold the wheel in front of him, so we are going to have think fast as to whom we deliver to the line

Less than one kilometre to go and have we gone too soon

The answer is YES as Julian Kern of Leopard Trek Continental sweeps by and takes the stage victory

Tom Zirbel Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies

Jonathan Clarke UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team

Bob Jungels Leopard - Trek Continental Team

Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies