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Hugo Houle | Canada's Next Star
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 05:40
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Hi everyone! My name is Hugo Houle and I am a Canadian professional cyclist. This season I will be riding for AG2R in the UCI World Tour, but the last two years I rode for Spidertech, but unfortunately they decided to stop the team for the time being to focus their funds on making a World Tour team right away. I was planning on staying because I love how the team operated but I am very excited to be racing in the World Tour!
I would say that Im a bit of an all-rounder much like the current crop of Canadian riders in my generation, who all seem to be able to compete on many terrains. My best specialties are for sure the Time Trial and hills though, but I think I'm a decent sprinter and climber as well.
2011 was a real breakout year for me, as I had a lot of Top 50 results in the Belgian early season classics and then I finished 5th in both Road and TT Canadian Championships. The Tour de l'Avenir was another fun race for me, and I finished 5th in the opening prologue which was a good result for me and I followed that up with a 26th at the U23 UCI TT World Championships.
2012 was the year where I really improved on my results! The first great result was a 7th on Stage 3 of the Tour of California, and then I really did well at the Tour de Beauce and finished 2nd Overall and 1st in the Youth Category. Later I got some strong sprint results at the Tour of Utah and then finished the year at at U23 World Championships where I finished 13 at the TT event and 4th on the hilly Road Course.
This year I plan much of the same, making big improvements. I've seen that a lot of riders struggle in their first season of Pro Tour racing so I've got to work extra hard and hopefully I can get some good results.
The success from David Veilleux's blog, a close friend of mine, helped me decide to start my own blog, so I hope it can be as successful as his.
Game Info:
Database: PCMdaoly 2013 db, adjusted stats
Progression: 0.4
Difficulty: Hard
Edited by valverde321 on 15-05-2013 04:34
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 05:41
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Attributes and Development
Starting Attributes:
Edited by valverde321 on 13-05-2013 16:29
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 05:43
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Major Results
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 05:48
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And so I return.
Feel Free to post now. I've got time again and I think one-rider stories are better for me. Im hoping this can be as successful as David Veilleux was, and I've learned some things from mistakes I made with that story. I would have liked to continue that, but its too far ahead and it would be more work than I want to put in, to get it back.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 06:19
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Love your stories Valv. Good Luck with this one
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| juszta |
Posted on 13-05-2013 07:15
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Good luck with this, it will surely turn out great!  |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 13-05-2013 07:16
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Good luck!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 07:29
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Actually, would anyone be opposed to a switch to Hugo Houle? 
He's Canada's biggest talent right now.
Edited by valverde321 on 13-05-2013 07:30
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 07:52
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valverde321 wrote:
Actually, would anyone be opposed to a switch to Hugo Houle?
He's Canada's biggest talent right now.
I have no objection. Hugo would probably be better anyway.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 08:22
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Hope this going to be another successful story from you 
Who can forget David Veilleux |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-05-2013 09:16
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Love the choice of rider, and I know I will love the story  |
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| MacC |
Posted on 13-05-2013 09:26
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He is not very good in the pcmdaily db... |
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| Pinktay3 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 10:04
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Awesome. One of my favourite riders from one of my favourite writers. Good luck with this, would really like to see i succeed. |
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 13-05-2013 11:20
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Hugo <3
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 16:34
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Thanks everyone for the nice comments!
The reason for the change is that I feel Hugo will be a better rider in real life, so its less of a stretch to have him develop into a strong rider on PCM. I also liked him better to begin with, but Teddy had a brief story with him in the past, and I wanted to chose an original rider, but in the long run decided it would be best for me to just pick Hugo.
(His name is catchier as well) 
And the introductions are now done for Hugo. I edited his stats slightly
Edited by valverde321 on 13-05-2013 16:34
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 13-05-2013 16:35
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Hugo Houle, nice choice! Develops nicely most of the time, in my game, had him in my team once as well.
Good luck with the story!
Feyenoord(football) and Kelderman fanboy
PCMdaily Awards: 12x nomination, 9x runner-up, 0x win.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-05-2013 16:41
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Great introduction and nice starter's stats. Hope this story becomes legend, like another guy we once knew (last name starts with a 'V' |
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 16:47
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Looks already very good! Good luck!
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| Daggen |
Posted on 13-05-2013 16:54
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Good luck. Really good preview |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 17:51
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Good luck Valv. Always loved your stories. And Teddy?  Men, you took a long break from PCM Daily. |
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