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New rubber is here for cx…
On the old rims and stretching. A bit of a change for me with essentially no “lugs” but a spike/rough pattern. A gamble that is the early UT CX season (Sept!). If I am wrong and the weather goes sour, then I will rip’em off and go back to the [...]

So before I mentioned what might happen tomorrow…
If I use a napkin style calc:
from stage 4
Evans
Menchov +7
VdV +10
Sastre +1:16
Kohl +1:27
Schleck +1:47
or in terms of seconds/km:
Evans
Menchov +.24
VdV +.34
Sastre +2.62
Kohl +3
Schleck +3.69

or extrapolated to saturday’s distance:

Evans
Menchov +12.7s
VdV +18s
Sastre +2:18.9s
Kohl +2:39s
Schleck +3:15.6s

and my podium predictions:

1) Evans
2) Menchov
3) VdV

Everyone thinks that Satre might pull out the best TT of [...]

+1991ft 1267kJ 245Npower
All good. BTW, I would avoid the road between BCC and LCC until construction is finished. It is ugly up there.

-gds

Let’s see… after today the top 6 look like:
1 Carlos Sastre (Spa) CSC-Saxo Bank
2 Fränk Schleck (Lux) CSC-Saxo Bank 1.24
3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.33
4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 1.34
5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.39
6 VdV 4:41
and at the last TT which was only 29k the delta between these riders looked like:
Evans
Menchov +7
VdV +10
Sastre +1:16
Kohl [...]

I haven’t posted in a while so here goes.
Rode the SS mtn bike Thursday with Justin.
He had new bike legs since his Pivot was out for miles 9+
So I finally got the SRM working correctly on this ride. Last time my bracket worked on the stand but not on the trail. I realized that the [...]

Went as expected (OTB).
here is what it would have taken for me to finish with the leaders:
-30lbs+80w
hmmm…
food for thought.
-g

No real dedicated training lately, a lot of climbing, but that is about it.
So first TT back since the ol’ break and it went better than I had hoped. I didn’t win or anything, but I went faster than any other time this season for me (and I think a PB as well).
I used all [...]

I had a nice start to my ride this morning.
Rolled out from the JCC, through the U and to Emmigration.

Planned to roll a 20ish min interval @ or above the testing from last night and managed to pop out 21mins @ 280w.
Great.
Passed a couple of people along the way, had the ipod running to keep [...]