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Hi All
Hope everyone is good and I thought I would do a post now that the madness has come to an end. Firstly to those who have sent messages to me on here and off during or after the Tour I really do appreciate it. To those who gave me ***, I also appreciate it.
1 question I keep getting posed to me is the strength of the team, I would like to give some info on this and now that is it over what the game plan was.
We lost Formolo very early due to a broken collarbone, he is a key domestqiue in the mountains.
We lost De La Cruz on day 1 with a broken sacrum. He is a vital key domestique in the mountains. Due to that injury, if he can maintain the pain threshold for a while it does improve and should be able to fire in the 3rd week. We made sure all we could do was done to help him get to this point.
We lost Aru. Who could of been a vital domestique in the mountains.
We were left with Polanc who filled all those riders rolls above for 2.5 weeks. I dont think you understand how that guy delivered in the mountains. Ive never seen a guy ride like this over 3 weeks.
We then told Laengen to transform into a medium mountains domestique over night. He did that, he was incredible. I have never seen someone his size climb like that.
Marcato - team captain - now turned med mountain domestique and the guy who nose was in the wind on the flat 24/7. That is one hell of a job.
Kristoff - no sprinting ambitions only look after Tadej on the flats. Kristoff is Kristoff one hell of a professional and great human.
That is what we were up against on JV.
I monitored athletes data every night and corresponded with medical and this was then presented to the Head DS. We would either rest a rider the following day or 2 so we could use him on day 3 for example by making sure they rode "easy" typically in the groupetto. We kept this up the whole Tour. Or the job was to drop Tadej off at a certain point where we knew he would be ok to surf and the rider then rode him easy to recover.
It worked and De la Cruz came right in week 3. With him and Polanc now good, we knew we could not take on JV man on man but we knew we could disrupt their train. We did that and often isolated Roglic with 1 helper.
Plan was to take yellow on the Thursday if possible or the TT so we did not have to defend it with the team as we were men down. The night before the TT there was a discussion with Tadej as he wanted info for the next day vs what we did at the recon. I was doing this at 11pm and with DS it was set out.
The rest as you know.
So was the team the strongest? No, was the team strong and a set plan set out and stuck to with what we had available?? Yes.
Did we know Tadej was going to blow **** up? Yes, that's Tadej being Tadej.
Well done
Wow what a TdF
I enjoyed this years route traffic flowed much better than previously, I think smaller groups helped, I started in A8. I will be back next year.
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Well done Alan
Clearly they looking to butter you up and then will quietly ask you whats the secret to organising and running a race successfully.
Hahaha
Well done Gerald and GW for a well run race, I did the double, Saturday was cold and thank you for the prize after the race, now to find that photo ????. Started in EL stayed with the main bunch till 50kms, then got dropped, and joined the Fl bunch that came by. Overall an enjoyable weekend hoping to be back next year.
F for me was in J last year
Speedy recovery guys.
So I have never really put much time into Zwift until Tuesday night when I tried to chase Fanie(#varkhart) and AntonJ around. One thing I realised quickly is that when you are just cycling around with someone and they take a turn then they disappear very quickly!
I also realised that if you dont know your way around you can take a turn yourself that puts you into some serious climbing!!
5 mins in and I was heading up and that lasted for another 45 mins before it pointed down again...
Zwift is awesome
You headed to the Zwift Alps
Finished this morning.
Yip, most of the route is good. Just that 20km stretch from the Roseta turn that needs some major attention. Lets hope Alec can work some magic.
Lets hope it will happen in time, and while on the fixing issue let him please shave off a few % gradient on that wall 
As promised a few pages back I went out this weekend with some mates to go do a little route check. I haven't edited the ride to just the race distance but have made a segment for it.
Nice ride yesterday, pity some sections of the road need major repair.
Well done!
Well done to the organisers, I started in A5 and the race was going well until I broke the chain on the metal bridge. Lo and behold I did not have the link 
. Removed an extra piece of the chain fixed it and soldiered on to the finish 
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Will the Kiddies race still go on? 
Nice race report!
. Indeed it was a good mix. thank you all
2020 UCI Road World Championships: Imola – Emilia-Romagna
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Well done JA, what an awesome race