After the storm cancellation on Sunday and a hard day on Monday, the Tour continued today. It is unclear who has the Stratiacello Jersey (the leader's jersey), but the KOM/QOM Jersey is being hotly contested.
Starting today in the Poka Dot Jersey, Teenie destroyed the first steep climb as we left the Brenta River. William White picked up his first KOM points. Kristin White and I were shutout. Dave Lowe piled up big points today on the 45 minute 1600 ft. climb to Enego.
Phil Ligget asked what Teenie and I were thinking of when we let the National Duathlon Champ get away at Tornante #12 (switchback 12). We answered with one word, "Pizza."
When the peleton stopped for lunch at Enego, I loaded up on pizza and gnocchi spinaci. Powered by a lot of this great 'on the bike' food, I was quickly 'off the back' on the ensuing climb.
After we returned on the 14k descent from Foza to Valstanga and survived the 21 tornantes, we headed for gelato. It was clear that Teenie had narrowly retained the Poka Dot Jersey.
Tomorrow is Mt. Grappa! Mt Mitchell seems like a bump! But, there is always more gelato.
2 comments:
Does that mean Teenie is the QOM so far?!
Some day, I would like to be powered by gnocchi spinaci...
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