Originally Posted by
BluesDawg
Hermes, good analysis and prediction, but Alpe D'Huez is tomorrow. What do you think will happen today?
Thanks... First cup of coffee this morning and I now have a proven track of being worse that Phil... which is not new news. I do not know how tough the final climb is other than they talk about the elevation. However, there are two HC climbs before the finish. There are a couple of theories about softening up racers legs with tough climbs before the finish. If the teams want to kill those first climbs, they could make the last one a race of attrition. However, they may just take the first two in stride and kill the finish saving something for the next stage. I am a negative split kind of racer so I would go for soft pedaling the first two climbs and killing the last one and then add on to the next stage. So I think today's final climb will be similar to tomorrow's.