Fantasy Giro Stage 2: Puccio Spews Into Race Lead

Hello.  Let's make this quick.  I was watching Game of Thrones and now it's a bit late.  Besides, there's something wacky about the scores.  Maybe these are the stage scores, but the totals are still to be seen.  Don't worry, I'll be keeping an eye on things at work tomorrow and will update the blog instead of doing any actual work if some new scores appear.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	232
2		Return of Reflex	Karlos	214
3		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	204
4		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	173
5		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	135
6		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	133
7		Get Jacked	robert thompson	119
8		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	118
9		Camembert Electrique	Mark	99
10		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	98
11		Rouleurs	tdm911	79
12		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	78
13		Charmers	Craigatron	77
14		Team Doodle	RobbieT	67
15		MDR	Matt Reeve	62
16		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	61
17		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	59
18		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	57
19		Amgen	Bradley Dean	37
20		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	33

So the well-drilled unit that is Sky Procycling won the TTT.  

In the process they gave Bradley Wiggins an early lead over his rivals.  And put young Salvatore Puccio into the Pink Jersey.  

Sky are off to a good start then, but if they're going to try and defend a race lead for three weeks, then they could be a bit tired by the end of the race.  If I were them, I wouldn't try too hard to catch the day's break tomorrow and let someone else worry about doing the work.  Could end up in another sprint, but there's some tough hills for the fast men to get over.  I'm hoping Cav has the legs, as I spent a load of money on him and need to re-coup my investment.

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.

All Sytems Go for Fantasy Giro

Time is running out to pick your Fantasy Giro teams.  Get on it people, I'm so great I'm winning already.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	0
2		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	0
3		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	0
4		Camembert Electrique	Mark	0
5		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	0
6		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	0