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So tomorrow’s time trial is just for funsies?

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I expect TD and Roglic to pull back some time on Thomas, but not the current deficit. The time trial is not long enough for TD to pull back 2+ minutes on Thomas.

That said, time trials can still be filled with mechanical issues, crashes, or just dead legs after three weeks of racing. With no one to help you get back on pace, easy to lose a bunch of seconds.

I found this image on another site. It shows the times of the GC guys up the last climb this year compared to the last two times this climb was in the Tour. I, like everyone else, want to see attacks, but you can see why it's so difficult when Sky starts setting the pace up climbs.

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As expected, Skye was the most prepared team today, and it showed.

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To hit the deck?

At 33KM left (before Landa's crash), Movistar still had 8 guys in the main peloton. After Landa's crash, three guys dropped back to pace him to only losing 7 seconds on the main GC guys. If Froome or Thomas had crashed like Landa did when he did, I don't know if either would have only lost 7 seconds.

Probably not Benoot as he abandoned after his late crash in yesterday's stage. Matthews has also abandoned due to illness.

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How is the jersey decided between Avermaet and Teejay since they have the same time?

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Place standing in the General Classification.

I really like it. It doesn't wear tires out as fast since it has two rollers as compared to a fluid trainer. And with the number of tires I have laying around, I have no reason to buy dedicated trainer tires. For the years I had my Kickr, I gradually shifted away from ERG mode just to resistance, and eventually it just made no sense to keep it.

Resistance wise with the Omnium, it just comes down to gearing, cadence, and tire choice. It's obviously not a good platform to do standing sprints on as you're removing weight off the rear wheel and losing some resistance, but for everything else, I find it's a great training platform.

Accidents can happen in any sport, even cross country skiing. We recently had a skier requiring an air med lift out after the skier collided with another skier and fractured his skull.

I would suggest spending a little more money and get a Kona Private Jake.

I had mine out at 32 or 33. I took none of the prescribed pain medicine after the surgery. Granted I had emergency surgery a week later for something completely unrelated to the tonsillectomy that included a 3 day hospital stay. The recovery from the emergency surgery was much, much worse than the tonsillectomy recovery.

The first few days post tonsillectomy were nothing compared to the pain of a kidney stone.

Usually run the same choke in each barrel, unless I feel like challenging myself, then I'll have a tighter choke in the top barrel. I typically shoot the bottom barrel first, unless I have a different choke in the top barrel, then I'll shoot the top barrel first when the first target is farther away than the second.