Vuelta 2018 Route

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
edited January 2018 in Pro race
(prologue)
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Stage 2
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Stage 3
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Stage 4
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Stage 5
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Stage 6
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Stage 7
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Stage 8
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Stage 9
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REST DAY

Stage 10
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Stage 11
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Stage 12
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Stage 13
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Stage 14
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Stage 15
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REST DAY

Stage 16 (ITT)
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Stage 17
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Stage 18
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Stage 19
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Stage 20
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Stage 21
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Comments

  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Ooooh.

    Will be there on start date and not very far away, will need to pop down.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Oof, some tough stages in there.

    Having said that I'm disappointed at a long ITT, these should be no more than 20km as it makes it biased against one or two riders far too heavily. It's ridiculous.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Stage 20 :shock:

    Great to see them going back up to Lagos de Covadonga, it's such an iconic climb in beautiful scenery.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Only 2 especial climbs and only one of traditional GT length.
    32kms of an ITT, used to be ridiculous for being too short, rather than too long.
    How things have changed.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I thought it was looking a bit light on climbing, then I scrolled into the second half.
    _
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,482
    Don't see 33 km as a long ITT either.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,259
    Since 2011 the amount of time trialling has been between 37 and 47 km (before that it was much more). At 40km this is about normal for recent years.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,545
    Hopefully there will be decent time gaps by Stage 20 that will encourage a long range attack. That stage looks to have the potential to be a classic. Shame Bertie had retired as it has all the hallmarks of one of his havoc causing stages. It needs Valverde or one of his team mates to be within a minute or so of the leader.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Pross wrote:
    Hopefully there will be decent time gaps by Stage 20 that will encourage a long range attack. That stage looks to have the potential to be a classic. Shame Bertie had retired as it has all the hallmarks of one of his havoc causing stages. It needs Valverde or one of his team mates to be within a minute or so of the leader.
    as always its the riders that make the race. Agree looks like a typical Bertie stage, he'd rather chase after 1st and finish nowhere than settle for second
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,204
    Only La Vuelta could classify stage 19 as "Flat".
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Pross wrote:
    Hopefully there will be decent time gaps by Stage 20 that will encourage a long range attack. That stage looks to have the potential to be a classic. Shame Bertie had retired as it has all the hallmarks of one of his havoc causing stages. It needs Valverde or one of his team mates to be within a minute or so of the leader.

    Last 'racing' stage of the final GT in the year teams go down to 8 riders, could mean a few teams are short of men to help heading into stage 20, making it much harder to control.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Like the look of that, stage 20 in particular :mrgreen:
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Like the look of that, stage 20 in particular :mrgreen:

    Just over 100km and over 4,000m climbing. :lol::lol::lol:

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