Portugal- rest day
Portugal
10 de agosta de 2007
The tour of portugal has turned out to be slightly different than I'd imagined. Everyone had said it was hard, but that's turned out to be a bit of an understatement. They go up the hills here so fast that you don't even have a chance to get in line. Yesterday I watched the finish on the tv from my hotel room. It was a finish atop a 4km 3rd category climb that featured a "field sprint" with the liberty seguros team leading out candido barbosa, aka barbacoa, at 45 km an hour on a hill of ~7%. I watched it and then thought about how I got dropped 2 km before the finish and yet barbacoa still had 2 guys to lead him out despite the fact that his entire team had been reeling back the break away for the past 30 km. Not to say that it's impossible or anything, maybe just not plausible... at all. Not to mention that the guý's apparently 75 kilos and 5 foot 5.
The next day he won the "field sprint" atop a cat 2 climb to the finish. Perfectly reasonable.
10 de agosta de 2007
The tour of portugal has turned out to be slightly different than I'd imagined. Everyone had said it was hard, but that's turned out to be a bit of an understatement. They go up the hills here so fast that you don't even have a chance to get in line. Yesterday I watched the finish on the tv from my hotel room. It was a finish atop a 4km 3rd category climb that featured a "field sprint" with the liberty seguros team leading out candido barbosa, aka barbacoa, at 45 km an hour on a hill of ~7%. I watched it and then thought about how I got dropped 2 km before the finish and yet barbacoa still had 2 guys to lead him out despite the fact that his entire team had been reeling back the break away for the past 30 km. Not to say that it's impossible or anything, maybe just not plausible... at all. Not to mention that the guý's apparently 75 kilos and 5 foot 5.
The next day he won the "field sprint" atop a cat 2 climb to the finish. Perfectly reasonable.
posted by Tom Peterson @ 6:23 AM
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