Anyway yeah regular updates. Some days a couple of stages, sometimes a couple of days between stages...Depends on my life seeing as how I have a job and wife who both need daily attention!
Sky have the money but the other Brits kept the passion.
Why not check out my story of sexy new team Film4 - Asahi in the PCM10 Story section?
Much wub to: Cav, Millar, Lovqvist, Cunego, Hinc, Voigt, Cancellara, Menchov.
Wub to: Wiggins, Boonen, Beppu, Kloden, Gesink, Rogers, Moncoutie, Roche.
So, it's the end of February and it'll be nice to go out on a high. Into late March and April we're going to cut back a bit on the races we're riding to stop our riders from burning out so it'll be nice to go into our last busy period for a while with a good result in this one day-er.
I didn't make the trip seeing as I was watching Nico Roche powering to victory but I got one of our Japano-Italian minions to take charge of driving our rusty crate of a car.
Anyway, Luigi Kawaguchi (literally: river mouth) did a decent job on the day so he may join me and Takeshison in Paris-Nice.
Six of the lads went in the end. Davey Millar was our number one guy, continuing his push for race form and hoping to continue his latest role as "all-conquering stage racer and almost-but-not-quite stage racer" rather than his early early season role as "constantly falling-off-his-bike buffoon".
Belly was going as the sprinter, mainly to see if he could make it over the two small climbs at the end still in touch with the lead group. Elijzen there to do the donkey work, Kennaugh to get some kms in his legs before leading our team in Malaysia...then Lonergan on protection duty and Wilkinson lumping water around like a demented camel.
Anyway long story short, early break went, got caught and Millar attacked on the first of the two late late hills.
All got a bit exciting for a bit but the peloton pulled back the minute or so he'd taken off them and caught him in the last km. Still, Millar added "plucky sprint prodigy" to his lengthening list of skills and rolled home in an excellent sixth.
Sadly my day was ruined by finding out that Riccardo Ricco had won the race. Grawr.
PINCH, PUNCH, FIRST OF THE MONTH!
So Feb was over. Millar sat 8th in the Continental Tour standings. As a team we sat 2nd behind BBox and 8th overall from all teams including the UCI top tour. A great month for us, we'd picked up our first overall stage race win and a KOM jersey and stage win. Those should help dust over the public relations cracks that seemed to be widening under my feet with every step.
The newspapers have been sniffing around too due to all our riders being on one year contracts. I told 'em straight though - we'd do everything in our power to keep hold of Roche for next year. That lad's got a bright future!
Sky have the money but the other Brits kept the passion.
Why not check out my story of sexy new team Film4 - Asahi in the PCM10 Story section?
Much wub to: Cav, Millar, Lovqvist, Cunego, Hinc, Voigt, Cancellara, Menchov.
Wub to: Wiggins, Boonen, Beppu, Kloden, Gesink, Rogers, Moncoutie, Roche.
