Tour de Med Stage 5

Finally won a comp

Paid the price for not putting Cummings in for the last couple of stages.

Well 45th on stage. Quite pleased. Did have 8 transfers though

Gah! ELEVENTH on the stage

Scores updating, didn't do enough to make a charge up the table but I'm happy with a top 3 finish in the Forum Scorum and a top 10 overall.

To be honest from what I was reading Cummings rode out of his skin with bmc in front leading the chase up the summit

As for my team ...gave up prior to the ITT when my mobile/site saw fit to destroy any hope

1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 20. Good on the face of it, but looks like a lot of similar teams today.

Also kept Pantano, not sure if he's got any mountain points. Sounds like an awesome ride from Cummings, delighted to see him take the limelight.

Team
Nation
Selection Options
Pos. Rider Team EuT Pnt
1 PERAUD Jean-Christophe [www.procyclingstats.com] AG2R La Mondiale 20
2 SEPúLVEDA Eduardo Bretagne - Séché Environnement 12
3 DENIFL Stefan IAM Cycling 7
4 CUMMINGS Stephen BMC Racing Team 5
5 SILIN Egor [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Katusha 4
6 ZOIDL Riccardo Trek Factory Racing 3
7 DEGAND Thomas Wanty - Groupe Gobert 2
8 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel Bardiani - CSF 1
9 BETANCUR Carlos Alberto AG2R La Mondiale
10 PELLIZOTTI Franco [www.procyclingstats.com] Androni Giocattoli
11 REBELLIN Davide CCC Polsat Polkowice
12 LUDVIGSSON Tobias Team Giant-Shimano
13 TROFIMOV Yuri Team Katusha
14 GENIEZ Alexandre FDJ.fr
15 HERMANS Ben [www.procyclingstats.com] BMC Racing Team
16 REICHENBACH Sebastien IAM Cycling
17 ROSSETTO Stephane BigMat - Auber 93
18 JAUREGUI Quentin Roubaix - Lille Métropole
19 TURGIS Jimmy Roubaix - Lille Métropole
20 CHAVANEL Sylvain [www.procyclingstats.com] IAM Cycling

Gah! I dropped Denifl for today

Denifl for Zoidl was my change, bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger

Edit: In hindsight bringing in Roy for a penalty transfer was a poorer decision.

Peraud
Sepulveda
Denifl
Cummings

Perauds taken it

Scrap that Cummings has come across to them

Petaud attacks looking good for the stage and overall

Peraud made it across they are leading by 15 seconds 2k to go

Gap now 17 seconds ...only 34 behind Cummings on time

3k to go Sepulveda has 12 secondg lead on a group of 15 including Cummings

Attack by cherel

Peleton back together at the base of the climb

Sprint
1 Fraile
2 Kowalski
3 Christian
Lead under 3mins

GPM 2
1 Dernies
2 Christian
3 Fraile
Lead down to 3.20

Standard with a ten point penalty:

Matthew Busche (TFR)
Luis Leon Sanchez (CJR)
Sonny Colbrelli (BAR)
Giovanni Bernaudeau (EUC)
Alexandre Geniez (FDJ)
Angel Madrazo (CJR)
Sylvain Chavanel (IAM)
Fabio Andres Duarte (COL)
Julien Antomarchi (LPM)

GPM 1
1 Fraile
2 Kowalski
3 Dernies
Lead approx. 5mins

Stuck with my plan for the final day which was always Barguil in for Phinney and Zoidl can go in nicely for Laengen.

Peraud
Chava
LuLuSanchez
Zoidl
Barguil
Jungels
Larsson
Fedrigo
Roy

Break
Kowalski
Christian
Dernies
Fraile
@2.50secs

20 pen points

Chavanel
Busche
Pellizoti
Peterson
L L Sanchez
Peraud
Colbrelli
Zoidl
Vorobyev

Going for a punt on Betancur - hopefully he's on better form than the vuelta

Tobias Ludvigsson (GSH)
Egor Silin (KAT)
Fabio Andres Duarte (COL)
Jean-Christophe Peraud (ALM)
Eduardo Sepulveda (BSE)
Carlos Alberto Betancur (ALM)
Jeremy Roy (FDJ)
Luis Leon Sanchez (CJR)
Steven Cummings (BMC)