Stage 5 - Weening Weeds Out Weaklings

After all the turmoil of the last couple of days, things were sort of back to normal on the Giro today. Normal, except the race took another trip over the Strade Bianche, the white gravel roads, which you may remember from last year. Last time the weather was wet, and the roads were a muddy mess. This time around, the weather was nice and things were a dusty mess.

The early action came from a brave solo move from Martin Kohler, who was out front for most of the day. It looked like he might just hold on, but was caught with 14km to go by Pieter Weening and John Gadret. Weening didn't hang about though, and attacked with 9 km to go and held everyone at bay till the finish.

As well as the stage win, Weening now has the race lead, after the previous Pink Jersey David Millar had a bad day at the office. Most of the other big names kept out of trouble and finished in the chasing group. So, on to those scores.

So, while I'm not quite up there with the Chanbots, at least I'm beating Drew now. Stage 6 will look like this:

I'm hoping it will be one for the Cav.