Today's stage was a doozey! The race finished with a 3km
climb including a section with a 14% gradient. Grant has been under the
watchful eyes of the leading teams, so Tom decided to play the game a bit
differently. Right out of the gate, Tom jumped and created the biggest gap he
could from the main peloton. The idea was to get the other teams with high
rankings to chase and spend extra energy pulling Tom back to the pack. This
gave Grant the ability to sit in at high paces and conserve his energy for the
big finish.
Overall Grant came in 7th and racked up a few more points
for the overall contingency. Tomorrows big road race should prove to be more
suiting for the two Americans. There will be more climbing but only up to 11%
gradient. The Stradalli guys should have a good chance of collecting more
points and hopefully put Grant in position to race for the rainbow stripped
jersey.
The picture above shows Tom rolling in after the hill
climb on his 2012 Stradalli Catania road bike. Hopefully the light weight 14 lb
bike helped him conserve some extra energy for
tomorrow.
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