Sagan Pijls on the Competition

In Europe the arrival of Spring can be judged by the Spring Classics. Over here in Atlanta, the arrival of Spring can be judged by the arrival of shit-loads of pollen (or plant gametes as I like to think of it). As you can see it gets pretty thick.

And the season has only just begun, with the pollen count predicted to hit over 10,000 soon.

All that pollen made for some painful eyes for me on the Dirty Mustache ride last night. Even some safety glasses I “borrowed” from work could not protect me. We still shredded gnar though.

Dirty Mustache Ride from Chris Kelly on Vimeo.

And don't even get me started on the Linden trees.



Anyway enough about me. What about the outcome of the snappily titled De Brabantse Pijl - La Flèche Brabançonne? Seeing as Fabian Cancellara is taking it easy for the next few weeks, it probably didn’t surprise anyone much to see the other star of the season so far, Peter Sagan take the win. And not too far behind him was Phillipe Gilbert, who looks to be coming into form just in time for a tilt at the Ardennes races. 

 

On the podium Sagan had another chance to get a hold of that girl he groped after the Tour of Flanders. But apparently he apologized for his behavior and gave her flowers. Let’s hope we never see a repeat of that sort of thing on a podium again. 

 

So, to the scores.  Another strong showing from Mungo. Worst of the day were the bogged blaggards.  And while we’re here, let’s see how many transfers we all have left. 

Rank	Team	Score	Transfers Remaining
1	Mungo Cycling	104	8
2	Bile Beans	86	8
3	Fulgas	85	5
4	Evil Chanbots	84	-9?
5	Rouleurs	80	7
6	vicarious victors	73	24
7	ENRICO 666	49	22
8	KLOEFEKAPPERS	49	22
9	synergy	44	20
10	Caffe Americano	38	13
11	Bodged blaggards!	0	6

Rouleurs still head the table, but I’m getting closer.

 

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Rouleurs	tdm911	722
2		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	687
3		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	640
4		KLOEFEKAPPERS	Jan Van Belleghem	583
5		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	552
6		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	549
7		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	509
8		Caffe Americano	Sherwood	493
9		synergy	Adrian Leggett	348
10		vicarious victors	eddy wu	286
11		Bodged blaggards!	Warwick Anderson	248

Amstel gold on Sunday, if you’ve still got transfers left it’s probably time to use some up.