Saddest part of this season for sure how bad the cobbles have been. Not a good result for us either
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
While I am obviously very happy with the win I am not happy about the race in general. One of the most tough race profiles in terms of cobbles in all of CT ends up in a 36 man bunch sprint? Goal for the race was top 10 so I can't really be displeased.
Yip, I'm in the camp querying how this race can ever end up as a 36-man sprint. Looks like might benefit from some tweaking of the hill stat (up), and a couple more cobbled bumps in the profile.
In this field GvK should feel distraught not to at absolute worst podium, so commiserations to Goldcorp, but alternatively congrats on the win (who in 50 guesses would have chosen 61 hill/70 cobble Farrar for victory on this parcour?!?).
For WCC our (relative in CT) cobbled depth reflected with 6 riders in the front group. Pretty ridiculous that young Sanogo was our top finisher given rider stats though! Would advocate that sprint hampered by what looks like a 2-spline road finish, but in reality a front group in what we envisage this race should be in terms of 1-day CT classic should never end up with more than a dozen riders at absoulte most in a 'soft' edition, and in 1's and 2's in a 'hard' edition. Tour du Faso f.e. seems to have found this balance since the change 2 years ago. 1 year ago a 'hard' really broken up outcome, this season 'softer' but still decisive enough that the weaker riders winnowed out.
With the depth scoring not too much of a hot on our ppRD, but given strength in numbers, disappointed that the lads didn't ride more aggressively/decisively from a WCC perspective.
Thanks for reporting (must have been frustrating waiting in real-time for the smash-fest that never came!).
