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HarmanMogul
@Brommers
Quick Tour Transalp update:
Day 2: @Cycliste's chain fell off, again, this time at the bottom of the first descent, the Furkel Pass. This time it took half the front derailleur cage with it, so this was the first of about 8 or 9 chain unshipping incidents. For the rest of the day, I'd sit on the front dragging @Cycliste behind me, trying to make up time, with a queue of 20 or 30 competitors behind me. Then @Cycliste's chain would fall off, all the people I'd been dragging along would overtake us, @Cycliste would swear a lot, and I'd go back on the front for another hour of tempo effort to try and catch up with the group I'd be dragging along before. Exhausting.
Day 3: Fast and flat run to the bottom of Passo Giau. @Cycliste and I were going well, top 10 of the B group just before the start of the climb up Giau. Then @Cycliste fell off when she got shoved into some roadworks by a friendly Brit who wanted to talk to her. We rode Giau hard, but @Cycliste had run out of beans a bit for the final climb up Passo Cereda.
After three days of racing we're back in 27th place in the Mixed category, exactly where we started after Day 1. Monte Grappa and Croce D'aune tomorrow.
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