La Vuelta Challenge 2012 - The third Grand Tour
TheBigYin
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Running from Saturday August 18th to Sunday September 9th 2012, the 67th Vuelta a España will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,360 kilometres. These stages have the following profiless:
11 flat stages
8 mountain stages
1 team time-trial stage
1 individual time-trial stage
Again, what I propose is that as a team of 9 riders we try and ride between us a distance each day equal to or greater than the distance of that day’s stage in the La Vuelta Espana. The person in the team who rides the largest total km’s gets the Red Jersey, the person achieving the fastest average speed overall gets the Green Points Jersey and the person who posts the highest total ascent figure in metres gets the Climbers King of the Mountains jersey ( a horrible white shirt with random blue shapes on it iirc last year!) . Hopefully the Jerseys in the Vuelta will match what I've just typed - they have an annoying habit of changing the colours from year to year - to my knowledge the leaders shirt has been Orange, White, White with a red Stripe, Yellow, Gold and Red, but I may have missed a couple... :laugh:
The stages for this race, and distances involved are as follows…
1 Teams time-trial Saturday 18 August Pamplona > Pamplona 16,5 km
2 Plain Sunday 19 August Pamplona > Viana 181,4 km
3 Mountains Monday 20 August Faustino V > Eibar (Arrate) 155,3 km
4 Mountains Tuesday 21 August Barakaldo > Estación de Valdezcaray 160,6 km
5 Plain Wednesday 22 August Logroño > Logroño 168,0 km
6 Plain Thursday 23 August Tarazona > Jaca 175,4 km
7 Plain Friday 24 August Huesca > Alcañiz. Motorland Aragón 164,2 km
8 Mountains Saturday 25 August Lleida > Andorra. Collada de la Gallina 174,7 km
9 Plain Sunday 26 August Andorra > Barcelona 196,3 km
Rest Day Monday 27 August
10 Plain Tuesday 28 August Ponteareas > Sanxenxo 190,0 km
11 Time-trial Wednesday 29 August Cambados > Pontevedra 39,4 km
12 Plain Thursday 30 August Vilagarcía de Arousa > Mirador de Ézaro 190,5 km
13 Plain Friday 31 August Santiago de Compostela > Ferrol 172,8 km
14 Mountains Saturday 1 September Palas de Rei > Puerto de Ancares 149,2 km
15 Mountains Sunday 2 September La Robla > Lagos de Covadonga 186,5 km
16 Mountains Monday 3 September Gijón > Valgrande-Pajares. Cuitu Negru 183,5 km
Rest Day Tuesday 4 September
17 Plain Wednesday 5 September Santander > Fuente Dé 187,3 km
18 Plain Thursday 6 September Aguilar de Campoo > Valladolid 204,5 km
19 Plain Friday 7 September Peñafiel > La Lastrilla 178,4 km
20 Mountains Saturday 8 September La Faisanera Golf. > Bola del Mundo 170,7 km
21 Plain Sunday 9 September Cercedilla > Madrid 115,0 km
Total distance 3360.2km (call it 2087 miles - or just under 100 miles a day on average...)
On a similar basis to the last challenge, to verify the distances/speeds/ascents rides would ideally need to be logged via some form of GPS and posted to appropriate websites, e.g. Strava / Garmin Connect / Endomondo. As I’d be looking at average speeds and climbs, I think that it’s only appropriate to restrict this challenge to outdoor mileage only. Only riders that have fully logged rides can be considered for the "jersey" competitions - though, allowances may be given for "equipment fails" - we've all had batteries give up half way around the ride, after all!.
So – anyone up for a challenge ??
11 flat stages
8 mountain stages
1 team time-trial stage
1 individual time-trial stage
Again, what I propose is that as a team of 9 riders we try and ride between us a distance each day equal to or greater than the distance of that day’s stage in the La Vuelta Espana. The person in the team who rides the largest total km’s gets the Red Jersey, the person achieving the fastest average speed overall gets the Green Points Jersey and the person who posts the highest total ascent figure in metres gets the Climbers King of the Mountains jersey ( a horrible white shirt with random blue shapes on it iirc last year!) . Hopefully the Jerseys in the Vuelta will match what I've just typed - they have an annoying habit of changing the colours from year to year - to my knowledge the leaders shirt has been Orange, White, White with a red Stripe, Yellow, Gold and Red, but I may have missed a couple... :laugh:
The stages for this race, and distances involved are as follows…
1 Teams time-trial Saturday 18 August Pamplona > Pamplona 16,5 km
2 Plain Sunday 19 August Pamplona > Viana 181,4 km
3 Mountains Monday 20 August Faustino V > Eibar (Arrate) 155,3 km
4 Mountains Tuesday 21 August Barakaldo > Estación de Valdezcaray 160,6 km
5 Plain Wednesday 22 August Logroño > Logroño 168,0 km
6 Plain Thursday 23 August Tarazona > Jaca 175,4 km
7 Plain Friday 24 August Huesca > Alcañiz. Motorland Aragón 164,2 km
8 Mountains Saturday 25 August Lleida > Andorra. Collada de la Gallina 174,7 km
9 Plain Sunday 26 August Andorra > Barcelona 196,3 km
Rest Day Monday 27 August
10 Plain Tuesday 28 August Ponteareas > Sanxenxo 190,0 km
11 Time-trial Wednesday 29 August Cambados > Pontevedra 39,4 km
12 Plain Thursday 30 August Vilagarcía de Arousa > Mirador de Ézaro 190,5 km
13 Plain Friday 31 August Santiago de Compostela > Ferrol 172,8 km
14 Mountains Saturday 1 September Palas de Rei > Puerto de Ancares 149,2 km
15 Mountains Sunday 2 September La Robla > Lagos de Covadonga 186,5 km
16 Mountains Monday 3 September Gijón > Valgrande-Pajares. Cuitu Negru 183,5 km
Rest Day Tuesday 4 September
17 Plain Wednesday 5 September Santander > Fuente Dé 187,3 km
18 Plain Thursday 6 September Aguilar de Campoo > Valladolid 204,5 km
19 Plain Friday 7 September Peñafiel > La Lastrilla 178,4 km
20 Mountains Saturday 8 September La Faisanera Golf. > Bola del Mundo 170,7 km
21 Plain Sunday 9 September Cercedilla > Madrid 115,0 km
Total distance 3360.2km (call it 2087 miles - or just under 100 miles a day on average...)
On a similar basis to the last challenge, to verify the distances/speeds/ascents rides would ideally need to be logged via some form of GPS and posted to appropriate websites, e.g. Strava / Garmin Connect / Endomondo. As I’d be looking at average speeds and climbs, I think that it’s only appropriate to restrict this challenge to outdoor mileage only. Only riders that have fully logged rides can be considered for the "jersey" competitions - though, allowances may be given for "equipment fails" - we've all had batteries give up half way around the ride, after all!.
So – anyone up for a challenge ??
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Same signup procedure as last time...
Again I'll start off... (perks of the job for organising - I get to baggsy "road captain" :laugh:)
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(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the Red jersey... )
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...0 -
I'm hoping to enter my 1st MTB race on Sep 9th (Brecon Beast) so this should help my training. Unless anyone else wants it i'll take #301 again but i'm happy with any number tbh, so i won't choose a number until others have seen this thread & had a chance to take the #1 spot.0
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No takers for 301 then, guess i'll have it before there's no places left!
(just don't tell the wife or this might not end well :ohwell: )0 -
I have a weeks holiday in the middle of this, but will make a contribution if you will have me on board. Will be in Spain actually.301 - FatDadSlim
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No takers for 301 then, guess i'll have it before there's no places left!
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Cheers Big Yin0
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just 302 to go, then we need to launch a second team rosta :woot:0
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come on people, roll up, roll up - only 302 remaining...0
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I'm game again....but I probably won't be riding every day.301 - FatDadSlim
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There we go - One full Rosta.
I'll open up another team if anyone else fancies a go...pick a number :laugh:
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Damn it; missed out on team 1 again
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Can I have 316 again pls) 0 -
For the moment, mate, I'm hanging fire - doesn't look like anyones battering the door down to join a second team other than yourself - rather than setting a 1 man team that's destined to fail, I'd sooner have a 10 man team, and shoot for Vuelta Km's +10% instead...
If a bunch of others want to join, then we'll have another look - and if you want into team #1, I'll swap to team #2 and let you go #3090 -
For the moment, mate, I'm hanging fire - doesn't look like anyones battering the door down to join a second team other than yourself - rather than setting a 1 man team that's destined to fail, I'd sooner have a 10 man team, and shoot for Vuelta Km's +10% instead...
If a bunch of others want to join, then we'll have another look - and if you want into team #1, I'll swap to team #2 and let you go #309
I'm happy to go #310 on Team 1 and go the +10% route (if you are fella?)0 -
there's still a week for people to sign up, so we'll leave it flexible I think... as long as it gets people out there riding it's good by me.0
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You gave my number away... <sobs>
Please see my post on the previous thread 7/31...0 -
You gave my number away... <sobs>
Please see my post on the previous thread 7/31...
Yeah - I remember you saying if I didn't sort one out, you'd do one, and that if I set one up you'd join, but I totally missed the "i'm going away on business for a week" bit, so I just allocated the numbers as they came in...
Tell you what - if you're set on #305, and if my fellow Yorkshireman is amenable, I'll jump ship to team #2 and ride #311, Katosdad can have #309 and you can keep your number
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Whatever. Just don't leave me out. I'm already short and fat and bald, I don't need more reasons to be paranoid. ;-)
Make me 313 and find me some teammates... :bigsmile:
C'mon cloggsy, let's find some teammates.) 0 -
Yea snow!0
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I'm game!0
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So, so far we have
311 - jhalsey*
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313 - NerdieProfessor*
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(*) - Feel free to swap your numbers around to one you like... I've just stuck the names in TBH0 -
Yea. I have been beating the bushes... But lots of my cycling pals on here don't do GPS, apparently. We only need five more...0
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315 Rajiv Dubey0
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Just need four more... Who else can we prod?
I swear I am going to make my husband sign up for MFP...0
