MFP Vuelta Espana 2013 Grand Tour Challenge Results

TheBigYin

Results for the Third section of the Grand Tour Challenge (La Vuelta Espana) are as Follows:

first of all the Red Jersey overall competition...

- Rider #309 - TheBigYin :embarassed: 994.20km - just short of the 4 digit club.



- Rider #324 - A tour Debutante, Jakess1971 with 850.69km.

- Rider #329 - Amiller7x7 - 845.40km - another good showing from team#3.


The competition for the Sprinters Jersey was closely faught this time - with 3 new contenders battling it out for honours...

- Rider #316 - CentralCaliCycling with an average of 29.48kph, amazing considering the temperatures he mentioned a couple of the days




- Rider #322 - glencommiskey - just a tad behind overall at 29.04kph average.

- Rider #318 - christophenes with an average of 28.24kph for a second podium appearance this year

And Finally, the Polka Dot Jersey Climbers competition...

- Rider #302 - mdstamand 9,582m of ascent (that's 12.83m of ascent for every Km ridden in the challenge...)




- Rider #329 - AMiller7x7 - 9,061m of ascent (or 10.72m for every Km ridden)

- Rider #301 - harksey - 8,695m of ascent (or 10.40m per Km ridden)

Hopefully, the final results are now showing in the spreadsheet at

http://www.editgrid.com/user/thebigyin/MFP_LaVuelta_Challenge_2013

And As always well done to everyone who got out there and did a ride and joined in the fun...

Jakess1971

Congrats to all who took part in this, been a fun ride, some pretty amazing stats and wow on the sprinting! Three out of Nine podiums for Team 3, Amiller7x7 we did rather well for a thread bear team 3 eh!

cloggsy71

Keep it warm for me CentralCaliCycling

Brilliant effort TBY... Red suits you; it matches your eyes :laugh:

And we have a new Mountain Goat - mdstamand - Awesome climbing!

All in all, a damn fine effort by all!

mdstamand

Thanks TBY! As always, you've done a yeoman's job running this challenge. You are a true asset to all the cyclists on MFP.

amiller7x7

Congrats to all who took part in this, been a fun ride, some pretty amazing stats and wow on the sprinting! Three out of Nine podiums for Team 3, Amiller7x7 we did rather well for a thread bear team 3 eh!

Yes, this was great fun - I am also amazed at how well Team 3 ended up in the final podium placements! And special thanks to Mark for putting together such an event - it does take a lot of detail work to bring it all together and we all get to benefit from his endeavors! Chapeau!

rides4sanity

Thanks TBY! As always, you've done a yeoman's job running this challenge. You are a true asset to all the cyclists on MFP.

I second this. I was a cruddy team member this go around, but I always appreciate the effort BY puts into these challenges. Thanks.

CentralCaliCycling

Thanks to TheBigYin for putting a lot of extra effort after his rides to keep all of this for us. I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next challenge.

As for Cloggsy - I promise to keep it warm for you until next time

cyclenut64

Great job TBY, thanks for running this challenge.

Congrats to all who posed for the pictures on the podium with you colorful jerseys and to everyone that got out to ride.