WC Ponferrada 2014. Altimetry

victorponf
victorponf Posts: 1,187
edited November 2011 in Pro race
Today the TT, with profile of the brutal final climb:

http://gpcanaldecastilla.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/los-circuitos-del-mundial-ponferrada-2014-circuito-cri/

From "Desde la Cuneta" cycling magazine
If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Good lord!

    8-)
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Mental.
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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    think is gonna be a really nice ITT, with 30 Km really flat and, no many bents and after that this climb (firt part of Morredero Climb) to compesate it.

    Nobody is going to know the podium in avance like this year
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    What d'ya recon the choice of bike will be?

    Triathlon wannabe style?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Innrng saying they'll be a 'pit stop' area before the climb for riders to change bike.

    Would be interesting. How much time would a bike change cost? Easily 10 seconds, and it upsets the rhythm..
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    victorponf wrote:
    think is gonna be a really nice ITT, with 30 Km really flat and, no many bents and after that this climb (firt part of Morredero Climb) to compesate it.

    Nobody is going to know the podium in avance like this year

    I can guess who will be on the top step. Homer's course*.



    *not Simpson.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Who?!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
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    calvjones wrote:

    I can guess who will be on the top step. Homer's course*.

    I first read that as Horner and thought 'steady on, won't he be about 43'
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Well there's only one guy I know who can motor on the flat with the best for 20k and sprint up 10%+ inclines like Marco. Surely this has to be built for bertie.

    Unless Ponferrada isn't in Spain following the death of the Euro...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    calvjones wrote:
    Well there's only one guy I know who can motor on the flat with the best for 20k and sprint up 10%+ inclines like Marco. Surely this has to be built for bertie.

    Unless Ponferrada isn't in Spain following the death of the Euro...

    Evans? I had him pinned as doing well.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Guess Evans might be too old by then.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Yeah me too. Which is a pity.

    Not that he needs a World ITT medal.


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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    I can see Contador or Froome winning here
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    victorponf wrote:
    Today the TT, with profile of the brutal final climb:

    http://gpcanaldecastilla.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/los-circuitos-del-mundial-ponferrada-2014-circuito-cri/

    From "Desde la Cuneta" cycling magazine

    How best to ruin a mountain stage ............stick a TT up it :roll:
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Moray Gub wrote:
    How best to ruin a mountain stage ............stick a TT up it :roll:

    How best to ruin a TT...........stick a mountain at the end :roll:
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    In a normal WC ITT i think just 3-4 riders have real posibilities, in this maybe 10-15 thinking have something to do.

    www.gpcanaldecastilla.com the spanish Roubaix?
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com

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