This team is very scary, I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the whole situation at all... My thoughts go out to my to short time team mate Ylvo and his family and also our team manager and his family, it's deeply saddening news I expect the rest of the team to also pay their respects to them. But as professionals we need to move on and I have a schedule that I'd like to race for the second part of the season.
I raced Tour of Oman and GP di Lugano which equals 7 racing days in a relatively short and easy part 1.
For part 2: California Norway Belgie Luxembourg
That equals to 23 days plus 7 in part 1 = 30 race days after part 2
I think these races will be a very good experience for me and help to enhance my progression.
-Nattrapon Miles
Edited by nacho63 on 24-02-2014 17:54
Привет, меня зовут Ylvo. Сегодня я рад присоединиться Accent Jobs. После трудное время я в конце концов получил три предложения, но это было здесь, что я решил приехать в.
Да Accent Jobs не лучшая команда, но новая мотивация управления и новых приобретений, действительно делают этот интересный проект, чтобы наблюдать.
В этом сезоне я получу шанс, в основном в ТТ. На данный момент я просто надеюсь, что поставить в некоторых достойных аттракционов и расти в качестве гонщика. Позднее в этом году я могу начать думать о реальных больших результатов.
В этом сезоне будет тяжело, особенно с языковыми трудностями. Но я чувствую, Accent Jobs может дать все необходимую мне помощь, и я не могу ждать, чтобы начать тренировки с командой.
LLDS wrote:
Добро пожаловать Ylvo.
Мы надеемся на хорошие результаты с нами, и это conttract стать началом красивого приключения.
Язык не будет проблемой, со временем вы станете настоящим профи велосипедиста.
Как много успехов.
Just found it right now. It's pretty funny when you know Russian indeed.
Greetings from California everybody, it's beautiful here, I'm up early with the team to watch the Giro d'italia! Was hoping to see a Cav win but Gossy deserved that. There was British glory on stage two though, Shindigs in pink wow so happy for him!
Anyway my own business here at AToC, the Accent Jobs team consist of Me, room mate (fellow EPIC neo-pro) Voltali Feunard, Napolitano, Van Goolen, Pauwels, Vantornout. The plan is too try and get into the break away on every stage has a victory is unlike. On stage one is was a wonderful win by Birt, the climb killed all of our team and many sprinters too, we finished around 10 minutes behind.
On stage two however it was a very different story, I got into the break!, It was a massive break of 12 for a second stage. NetApp's greek climber was in it too, he did no work. Obviously it was clever from Net App but still annoying nevertheless.
My climbing for an 18 year old non climber is actually pretty good, we made it up the category 1 in one piece. 10km to go I had a last dig with 2 other riders but the break didn't let us go. From then on, it was my dad finished, my legs absolutely crumbled on the last climb but I finished a respectable.
Stage 3 was fairly straight forward I hung on to the peloton pretty well and I think I'm maturing as a racing more than just ability-wise, only time will tell. I plan my next blog to be after the time trial, I'll give my bet on who I think will go on and win the race. Until then, peace out and enjoy the Giro and Cali on the telly!
I don't know what's hotter the weather, the GC battle or TVG's time trial ride!
I was lucky that I was early in the day, I finished around 4 minutes behind but by far not the worse out on the course today. The climb at the end was an absolute killer, my legs were like jelly and I was so happy to finish. That's my first proper time trial since my track days and they aren't nearly as long!
Not your ordinary stage race
Yep, of course I didn't play apart, getting dropped from the peloton again but it was all about Van Goolen today. A cracking result for us to come in 5th. He says hes a climber, well on a flat stage in Cali, anyone can win obviously. Congrats to Ian on the win, him and Joe have worked tirelessly for Porte, Wiggins, Froome you name it.
Like I started off my last blog, how about the Giro!? Nibbles gets in on a win already, in pink to the end? Some strange racing, Quintana 2'40" down already but i'm sure we'll see him ripping it up in the mountains.
That's the end of Cali part 2, you will see my thoughts after stage 8, can't wait to see what will happen but first I must survive tomorrow!
I have a majorly busy schedule coming up, Norway and Belgium tours and then onto Luxembourg. There will hopefully be a blog after each. See you then.
Tour of California is done, congrats Andrew, I finished number 101, surprising only + 32'48 down. Would have liked a top 100 but oh well... only joking
Weather was terrible for the mountain stage, luckily it was fairly warm. The climb wasn't so hard as we first thought, the groups stayed fairly big. I didn't suffer too bad, I just got caught out in the splits as usual.
Last stage, Van Goolen was stage hunting again, we had a real good chance of a win here and we decided he was our best chance. In the end they did make it and he finished 7th. Two top 10s is a great showing for Accent, hopefully we attract new management now.
That's all from California, next blogs are from Belgium and Norway so a little closer to home. Let's see what I can do!
Straight from California the guys were racing almost immediately in Belgium. Hills, cobblestones and an individual time trial were thrown at us. In the end the race taken by Hagen of Sky, who controlled the 5 days along with G.
I travelled with Van Goolen, Klaas and Pauwels from America, it took us a few days to get the feelings back into legs because of the jet lag. Van Goolen was our leader again, hes the strongest at the moment and he is in good form. On the last stage on was on the attack on the breakaway while I was drifting out the other way into the groupetto. Another top 10 for Van Goolen to add to this season's record.
In the end I just ran out of steam. I would consider myself to have good stamina and recovery for my age but after Tour of California I just didn't enough in the legs on the last stage of Tour of Belgium, who ever said Belgium was entirely flat was lying! The parcour was almost like Amstel of Liege, not so difficult obviously...
No matter what I'm happen to be consistently racing again but with the pros. The lack of management has allowed everyone to expressed themselves although it may not have done my development any good. Next up I enjoy Tour of Norway and then Tour of Luxembourg. I can't tell anyone what is to be expected so you'll just have to tune in!
Hi guys, this is going to be a shorter blog than I would have hoped as I don't really have much to talk about. There is one thing though, I hit the deck in Norway, hard. Stage One started off with classic British weather, heavy rain, dark and strong wind. The peloton was blown apart by Katusha, I ended up with the same time as winner Kristoff somehow. I'm going to hold my hands up and say there was definitely something wrong with the timer that day.
On stage two, in comparison to the day before it was very relaxed, it's flat route meant it was always going to end in the sprint for the big guys up front. In the final kilometer I clipped the wheels with another rider, I'm not sure who, I think it was Hondo from Radioshack but it doesn't really matter. I came down shoulder first and stayed on the floor for a good two minutes. I couldn't get up until I was helped up and I managed to free wheel to the finish. By miracle the doctor was able to tell me I hadn't broken anything thankfully and I was to carry on.
Unfortunately I was in too much pain to do anything, most people would have expected a guy almost dead last to go in the break but I just didn't have it. In my mind it was daunting that I had to face riding 100km + with my pain but I did finish. I've been advised to take a bit of a break to relax, it's much welcomed! Anyway I should be fine to ride Luxembourg, my last race of the part 2 so see you there...
Allee, Accent Jobs fans. For those who don’t know, I’m one of those new riders that suddenly got a chance to ride with the pro’s. my name is Voltali Feunard. For those that also like the Sojasun, may know my name, that’s no coincidence, Aquali Feunard is my younger brother. I also have an older brother who is currently being owned at Tour de Suisse by everybody else. His older than me and rides for Caja Rural. for those who already read Aquali’s post you would already know that me, Aquali and Pyroli are triplets. If you want a full family history you should go to the Sojasun thread. I was actually because of me that all of us are in the new setup. At the end of last year I was still training while my two brothers had gone home because it looked like there could be a thunderstorm. I really wanted to continue riding as I was really feeling great and wanted to take some Strava segments. However went I got to the end I got passed by someone that has a massive sprint which would put Kittel to shame. He was also wearing an official cycling jersey from last year. However directly after the end of the Strava segment there was a corner that he didn’t judge correctly and he went over the guardrail . it’s a good thing that I was sprinting at the Strava segment as well otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it happen. I immediately called an ambulance. I stayed around to help that man get up from the ravine. His injuries were massive, he looked like he was in much pain. When I visited him the next week (he was in coma for that long) we had a good talk. it turned out that he was Johan Veenhof, a Dutch sprinter from The Netherlands with some average result all across the board (he was even called things like Mr. Second Place and Most consistent World Tour Rider) just when I was going to ask what he was doing in France, the doctor with Johan’s family came in. the doctor then started listing the injuries Johan had but he was interrupted by Johan, saying that he didn’t understand French. As I was the only one with both French and English language. He broke his right leg at three places and his left leg at once place; a broken ankle, shattered left-collarbone and a dislocated right shoulder. In addition various broken ribs. With each injury I told Johan you could see his heart break a little. So when I finally finished listing the injuries I was surprised how he reacted. All he said whas “that sucks, I was hoping that I could race again this year under the new EPIC regime”. When I asked him what EPIC was he told me that the old regime, called UCPCL, was bankrupt and EPIC took over and the idea of introducing new riders in the peloton was re-used from UCPCL. That’s how he made his debut but since he was really injured he won’t return this season. So he then remember that he overtook me in that sprint before he crashed and he asked if maybe I could take his place. He said he was in France to negotiate with the current Europcar managers if they could take him in his team. So I went there and told him about what happened but when I told him that Veenhof wanted me to take his place I was told that there was no room for me there and that I should at least sign up at the EPIC management to get a place at a team assigned . that’s basically how I got my job at Accent Jobs.
GP Marseille, GP di Lugano, Strada Bianchi
So I had quite the big stress before the season even started but when it started one of my brothers (Aquali Sojasun) was also at the start, obviously we rode together until the flag was dropped for the first time in my professional life. For some reason Aquali wanted to ride at the front of the peloton. I later figured out that his race tactic was going in the break, my plan was to get Degand and Van Goolen in a good enough position to get points. However the pace the race was ridden was too high and I couldn’t follow on the hills. I finished solo 10 and a half minutes behind the winner. I don’t even know who won, the ceremonies were already over when I finished. GP di Lugano wasn’t much better either. The whole team got caught behind by the echelon created by Kroon, well what was left of the team. Only De Troyer and Jans were in the peloton when the echelon happened. The rest of us rode home in the grupetto (did manage to outsprint Aquali for place 91th, thanks Nattrapon for the leadout ) My next race was the Strade Bianche but since that race was in Italy all the reviews about the race are in Italian the only thing for I gathered from what I didn’t see is that Sagan attacked and put 10 minutes on peloton in 17 kilometers. Yeah nobody was stopping him that day
Driedaagse de Panne
I then started for the first time this season in Belgium at Driedaagse de Panne and as a rider for a Belgian team, the attention I got was pretty amazing. With the lead sprinter Napolitano here, my job was to protect him during the stage and if I have anything left provide the lead-out. Sadly it didn’t come to it because I couldn’t keep up with the peloton in the finale and only barely kept hanging on at the peloton. The second stage was a lot easier with not many challenges along the way. Only a few cobble section, not hard enough to lose the peloton. I had the same role as the day before. Protect him during the stage. When the final sprint arrived I let the other guys take over and lead Danilo to the finish. I dropped back to the end of the pack and didn’t lose time. Stage 3 was the same thing. Protecting Danilo and in the final sprint letting him do his thing. This time it was 12th place. The Driedaagse was basically over with only a time trail left. I did surprisingly well. I finished 59th with an average speed of 56,309 km/h
Rund um den Finanzplatz
What followed was the German classic Rund Um den Finanzplatz which was dominated by the Germans. The expected Greipel, Kittel and Degenkolb were the top 3 and Martens took 4th. For us Jempy Drucker took 17th place securing some points for us. I tried my best to get the team best possible result I worked for Commeye the whole day by getting bottles and protecting him from the wind. While I was getting bottles for the last time, the peloton broke into two pieces. No need to explain I was caught behind. Once I realized that the front was gone and I was likely not to catch them again I just rode home without any trouble.
Tour of California
The last race I did until this point is the Amgen Tour of California, together with Natt Miles (my roommate for Cali and a great friend) Napolitano, Van Goolen, Pauwels, Vantornout and I can summarize this stage race as the following. Dropped from the peloton in every stage with a massive gap, between 4 and 11 minutes. The only notable exception was the last stage: stage 8. I’ll start there. Van Goolen was going for a breakaway points again (as he did before in stage 5 where he ended 5th ). With Napolitano we had a guy that should be able to get a top 10 as well so we had two chances to score in one race. While splits were happening everyway catching out experienced guys like Rolland, Phinney and Brajkovic, I was still in the peloton, determent to do some work in the leadout for Napolitano. I put in a massive turn to take Danilo to the front so that he could latch on a train. He couldn’t find a good one and only sprinted to 17th place. I finished in 77th (one of my best finishes this season) and 125th in the GC almost 45 minutes back. Those times add on so fast. That was my season so far. Only the French nationals are up next and then I need to decide what I’ll ride then. I can tell you one thing. It won’t be a race like California
Feunard Games
Speaking of the French Nationals, that race is actually the first race me and my two brothers are racing in the same race. Of course we did had some races which was head to head but this will be the big one. We actually made a game out of competing against each other. We called it the Feunard Games. The rules are simple: in a head to head, the winner get’s 1 point and the loser get’s nothing, in a free for all. The one that finishes first will get 3 points, number 2 will get 1 point and the last one will get nothing. If one of us does not finish, It will not count towards the Feunard Games. We haven’t had a free for all race yet (like mention before) but we did have 4 head to heads. At GP la Marseillaise, Strade Bianche, GP di Lugano and Rund um Finanzplatz. I participated in all of them and won two (Lugano and Finanzplatz) and lost two (Marseillaise and Bianche). Which makes me the current leader with two points. Pyroli (Caja Rural) is second because of his win at Bianche and no losses and Aquali (Sojasun) is currently last because of one win (Marseillaise) and two losses (the races I won) I’ve added these into the next spoiler so you can get a better overview.
Spoiler
Results
Race
First
Second (if possible)
Third
GP la Marseillaise
Aquali (100th)
Voltali (110th)
Strade Bianche
Pyroli (59th)
Voltali (132th)
GP di Lugano
Voltali (91th)
Aquali (101th)
Finanzplatz
Voltali (80th)
Aquali (130th)
standings
Best of Three
First
Last
Points
Voltali (Accent Jobs)
0
2
2
2
Pyroli (Caja-Rural)
0
1
0
1
Aquali (Soajsun)
0
1
2
1
But that’s all from me today, see you next time after the French Nationals have ended
I'm back in Britain racing for the first time for the British Championships, being in Scotland this year, it's not strictly at home but massive crowds turned for the time trial and road race even in the pouring rain to reaffirm the cycling "boom" in this country.
I decided to ride the time trial to stretch my legs, I was never going to win, and I will probably never will but it just felt great to be out on the course representing the jersey, most of the spectators won't have heard of. The main objective was to not get overtaken, I managed to achieve that and claimed my first ever top 10 so that was nice. Wiggins took the win but it was so close for Froomey. I'm sure he has bigger and better things to win though.
On the course for the time trial
The road race on Sunday included a interesting circuit from the get-go, a break of 4 won't and the winner came from there. What can I say, the race was really screwed up, I don't know what Sky were up too really, it was a joke. So we got lapped by the breakaway and then dropped, very familiar with my track days. Not the outcome I would have liked for myself but I was pleased for Dowsett, always been a proud rider for Britain.
I have my Luxembourg blog coming up soon, and then all the riders look forward to a well earn break before they hit the 2 grand tours. With no manager I'm not sure how are calender will be sorted, all I wish for is that we can ride the Tour of Britain, it's a great race with a mix of big stars and regional heroes, so lets see what happens.
after a long time of thinking I can finally conform my calander for the last part of the season. if you want to see me race, you know now where to find me
Qinghai
Danmark
Dutch Food Valley
Vendee
Paris-Tours
Hainan
this would give me 7 + 9 + 27 = 43 days in the saddle this season
I’m back after racing in France again after a bad race thanks to FDJ and AG2R. a break with Sicard (Euskaltel), Rolland (Europcar) and Moinard (BMC). With Rolland there, the race is pretty much over since one stronghold fell away. Anyway, the first no finish of my career.
But the next race is starting soon and I think I might have a chance for a good finishing position. It’s Qinghai lake and thanks to the high amount of stages and the race limit set by the UCI. The biggest sprinters aren’t here because of that. Look out for the Accent Jobs rider with race number 122 I’ll cover that with more detail in my next update
- Voltali FeunardEdited by SSJ2Luigi on 13-08-2014 19:44
California
Norway
Belgie
Luxembourg
Nattrapon Miles
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Ylvo "Cheli" Chelyakov 
) My next race was the Strade Bianche but since that race was in Italy all the reviews about the race are in Italian 
the only thing for I gathered from what I didn’t see is that Sagan attacked and put 10 minutes on peloton in 17 kilometers. Yeah nobody was stopping him that day
