Fantasy Giro Stage 1: Cav slips into Pink

It looked like a nice day at the Giro today.  Certainly better than here in Atlanta, where it looks set to piss it down all weekend.  

Whatever happened to global warming eh?  Still, all this rain means I had time to make some beer.

And finish off the artwork on my full-suspension bike. 

Oh, and Mark Cavendish won Stage 1 of the Giro today.  As if you couldn't have guessed.  The lead-out men at his new team may have been a bit hit and miss this season, but he always seems to find himself in the right place when it counts.  He dodged the last minute crashes and sailed on through to take the win.

(Revised) Scores are in, and Cofeedis are off to a strong start.  But as we all know, it's a marathon, not a sprint.  And even though Mr. Fee looks to have a well balanced squad, I'll eat my chapeau if he has it all his own way to the finish in Brescia.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	305
2		MDR	Matt Reeve	290
3		Camembert Electrique	Mark	262
4		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	214
5		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	202
6		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	196
7		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	195
8		Amgen	Bradley Dean	194
9		Return of Reflex	Karlos	189
10		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	185
11		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	158
12		Rouleurs	tdm911	136
13		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	135
14		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	114
15		Get Jacked	robert thompson	102
16		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	86
17		Charmers	Craigatron	84
18		Team Doodle	RobbieT	47
19		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	7
20		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	2

Tomorrow is team time trial time.  Word on the street is that the streets of Ischia are "technical", but at only 17.4km long, it shouldn't be possible to fuck it up too much.  Cav's no stranger to doing a good TTT at the Giro and his 20 second time bonus from the win today should be enough to hold onto the lead for another day.  Then again, Sky, GreenEdge, Astana, BMC, Garmin and maybe Movistar will all be looking to do all they can to do a fast one tomorrow.