Interestingly though, from my lads + rodriguez Rodriguez 49/187: 7'51" Contador 70/187: 10'40 Fuglsang 112/187: 17'17" Schleck 122/187: 17'55" Taaramae 150/187: 20'03" Shows how underdone these blokes are. Need to get some serious match practice in <_< When Kenny Van Hummel finishes 8 minutes behind and you're double behind him, you know it's embarrassing.
Yeah definitely a good (and vaguely realistic) thing about the sim that form changes so much over the season. Fucking bonus seconds, but I suppose Tout Seul needs all the wins they can get.
Just a small one. Like 7 entrants from 3 of our teams Albasini - 17th - 1'45" Herrada - 45th - 5'00" Majka - 46th - 5'00" Burghardt - 50th - 9'48"
Vuelta a Andalucia - 2.1 February 19-22nd Castellon Citrosol LL Sanchez Burghardt Nordhaaug Ventoso Valverde Herrada Cyclista Australis Rogers Hesjedal Van Garderen Greipel HFF Pozzovivo Feillu De Gendt Harpsobank Danielson Basso Ferrari Cataldo Nieve Gasparotto Costa TSC Dekker Rolland Demare When I wake up.
Le Tour de Langkawi - 2.HC Feb 23-March 4 Kinda disappointed it gets relegated to this. It's a nice kind of race. Fosters Clarke Hermans Rutkiewicz Veuchelen MMPC Renshaw Marcato Roy o'Grady Slagter Navarro Rabobank Van Hummel Ballan Van Keirsbulck Popovych Kiryienka Dombrowski Harpsobank Veelers Meyer Nocentini Pinotti Ten Dam
La Drome Classic - 1.1, 188.8 KMs, Hilly. One day race. Cyclista Australis Von Hoff Parisien Betancur Viviani Velits Sorensen Ponzi HFF Zabel Bobridge Durbridge Stybaar Szmyd Phinny Ciolek Gatto MMPC Bauer Schumacher Spilak Kolobnev Knees TSC Sutton Boeckmans Bookwalter Millar Dumoulin Oliviera Kruijswijk Stannard When I wake up etc.
DS to be sacked over the decision to field 8 racers in a joke national event in France and 3 riders in a decent stage race.
Fatigue management, I'd say. Given players form begins to handicap and decline after 60 or so days raced, expending 10 on a tour like this is a little risky. Like, you've got to race to build it up, but then once you race too much for the year you lose it and for good. A bit like training - intense training builds it up but once you pass the threshold (it's unavoidable, really) you lose the form. That's how it works in the sim so I guess 10 days is a a little hefty for a side race.
Yeah I was more referring to Andalucia (which is 5 days I think) than Langkawi. Langkawi definitely gets hit by fatigue management, but considering it's really a race for Pacific talents I don't think it's too bad that some super-sides give it a miss.
Bouhanni knows what Matty Goss felt like last year at the TDF then. Disappointed we couldn't sneak someone into the top 10 GC though
