I'm trying to watch every race this season. So far, it's panning out quite nicely for some.

Paris-Nice was boring for the most part, but Leipheimer et al's final crash during the chase was spectacularly disastrous. I was pulling for him because I can't stand Wiggins or Team SKY (don't know why). Anyhow, kudos to Wiggins for winning the final TT. That's an impressive show of strength IMO to wear the leaders jersey into a stage and proceed to dominate it.

Tirreno-Adriatico: also mostly boring. It was a like a more scenic Tour of Oman. The final TT was pretty cool, but you could tell before Horner passed 150m to the finish that Nibali had won. Good on him, though. He had a great 2-stage run in the USA Pro Cycling challenge last year so I wondered when we might be seeing him more.

Milan-San Remo: Aside from the brutal crash of the Columbia deportes rider, I enjoyed the hell out of all 7 hours of racing. Cavendish fucked up my picks again, though. He was practically rolling backwards on the big Col that started a little after 100km to go and never managed to gain back any time. He seemed strong in Qatar, so it was either a bad day or (more likely) a route that doesn't suit him. He's a one-trick pony where no one can beat him in a sprint, but everyone can beat him on a 5% grade. I almost picked Simon Gerrans for the win (picked Robbie McKewen instead) because GreenEdge is kicking ass and taking names this season.

Currently, Catalunya is in progress through Sunday (Gent-Wevelgem is on Sunday too). I'm not sure who I'm favoring for either at this moment.

During MSR, Gilbert actually came forward at one point and yelled at two teammates for doing the lion's share of the work, meanwhile SKY, OPQ and everybody else were just sitting back.

A questionable ban, at that. An interesting read: http://pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=10098

Well, Boonen won E3 and G-W. No big surprise there, and he got me 100 points in the prediction competition on another forum. Sebastian Langeveld and Greg Van Avermaet both let me down though... I had picked them as well, they stayed at the front for the last 20k and then disappeared in the sprint. Sigh... it was fun to watch in Dutch, though. Eurosport was still covering Catalunya on Sunday, so I watched the race on Sporza. It sounds like this: "Bork bork bork, Cancellara, Cancellara,bork, Friere, Boonen, Friere, BOOONENNN!".

Bunch of babies dropping out of Catalunya, btw. A little snow and half the field decides not to restart after the stage is neutralized. Albasini from GreenEDGE was leading by less than a minute leading into stage 3. After all the DNFs and withdrawals, his lead never dropped below 1:30 and he got to spend the rest of the race in the peloton without breaking much of a sweat. GreenEDGE continues to dominate. The grand tours are going to be very interesting.

Flanders starts early Sunday morning for those in the Central Time Zone. Should be good.

Thanks, I'll tell my wife to move on.

Cancellara crashed in the feed zone and is out of the race.

Damn it... he crashed in E3 too.




It truly was. The last 3k was hard to watch because of Belan's futile attacks, but the crowd's reaction to Boonen's win was pretty cool.

I joined cyclingtorrents a couple weeks ago, but haven't really gotten involved in the message board. How soon after a race happens is the torrent usually available?

There's a capping schedule where they try to post the times, but it's usually the same day, and shortly after the races finish.

Yes, I know cyclingnews has a live play by play.

Boonen DOMINATED! Awesome race to watch.

UCI road worlds is coming to my town in 2015, I'll be taking the entire week off work - yes I will be one of those idiots on the TV. I can't wait!