BurningLegs
Guru
Is this the first time we e had both teams win a stage in the league? I don’t remember it happening before but it’s great to see.
Well done everyone!
Well done everyone!
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steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Well it's only the 2nd time CCC have won a stage, with the first being last week's TTT, so the answer is certainly yes!
Love your sledging .... cracks me up. Need to get you, @mjd1988 and me in a race .... probably get ourselves banned
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Video of last night’s CCC victory taken from the safety of the team car!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulIrKGihMQ
Best part probably would be the Railway Sprint where I make it the team picked up 23 points in total (across three riders).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulIrKGihMQ
Best part probably would be the Railway Sprint where I make it the team picked up 23 points in total (across three riders).
BurningLegs
Guru
Looking back on that @steverob I made two mistakes on the run in:
1. I hesitated when the eventual winner of FAL on the final sprint and at the finish dropped an invisibility power up to get a gap. I should have attempted to bridge that immediately but didn't. I was probably stronger than the TFHerts guy who also needed to bridge and I might have been able to drop him.
2. I hesitated when the TFHerts guy went long at the finish. I should have immediately followed him, but thought the BRT guy would chase because they were playing for a 1st/2nd finish, so I wanted to force him to chase and sit on him. In the end the BRT guy didn't chase and I didn't sprint very well so ended up coming 4th at the finish
Lesson learned - in a small finishing group, chase everything immediately. I had the legs to do it yesterday but didn't and paid the price. One consolation was a second place on the final sprint, but I feel like I should have done better and been competing for the win on that sprint and the final placing!
1. I hesitated when the eventual winner of FAL on the final sprint and at the finish dropped an invisibility power up to get a gap. I should have attempted to bridge that immediately but didn't. I was probably stronger than the TFHerts guy who also needed to bridge and I might have been able to drop him.
2. I hesitated when the TFHerts guy went long at the finish. I should have immediately followed him, but thought the BRT guy would chase because they were playing for a 1st/2nd finish, so I wanted to force him to chase and sit on him. In the end the BRT guy didn't chase and I didn't sprint very well so ended up coming 4th at the finish
Lesson learned - in a small finishing group, chase everything immediately. I had the legs to do it yesterday but didn't and paid the price. One consolation was a second place on the final sprint, but I feel like I should have done better and been competing for the win on that sprint and the final placing!
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
I've only just had the chance to watch @bridgy's footage of the B's from last night. While I knew you'd won overall, I hadn't looked at the scores / margin of victory on the WTRL site beforehand, so when I watched it back I was gobsmacked by the way you guys absolutely dominated that race! There were multiple men in blue scoring at every possible prime, it really was a superb team performance.
A 1,2,3 at the Railway Sprint; FIVE riders in the FTS points on the Tower Sprint; just phenomenal!
A 1,2,3 at the Railway Sprint; FIVE riders in the FTS points on the Tower Sprint; just phenomenal!
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
The only thing that stopped Tommy taking full points on the KOM was that Jura had a guy drop back and blitz the climb while rested and, presumably, on a gravel bike.
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Don’t click reveal unless you want to be slightly irritated…
If we’d dropped a couple of positions on the Railway Sprint FTS - for example Bram and Michael dropping to concede the win to the Team NL rider Crutzen - then Team NL would have scored enough points to push Jura down to third place and we’d be equal top in the league (provided that this didn’t in turn alter the FAL scoring…). It’s just one of the quirks of the scoring system and you can’t plan for that with anything but hindsight, but it is slightly annoying!
Awesome Sprinting there @bridgyI did like the super long attack sprint, left the others for dead.
post up your teams points scores, it will look impressive
After winning the second sprint, placing well in a couple of others including some FTS points, and then second place overall, I thought I might get the most points in the team this week......but Bram said "hold my Belgian beer"
Are you saying that at full gaz effort sprint, you can't do a bit of mental arithmatic?
It is a quirk of the points system but impossible to control ... so all we can do is keep winning the races each week then we have control of our own destiny and what Jura do will have no impact of us.
I think we have to assume they will put out a good TTT and may beat us into 2nd again ... so they are probably 2 points ahead of us at the moment, so we know we need to be ahead of them 2 weeks on points races at least.
Baring a miracle from them Tuesday, I can't see them beating us this week as Tommy has picked a team to dominate that course.
