Right now it looks like the Giro (barring any surprises on Saturday) is going to come down to tomorrows mountain stage and the final individual time trial.
The final TT looks a whole lot like the last one with a pretty good climb of about 600 feet in the middle of it (for those who live in the east San Francisco bay area that's about the height of Skyline at Redwood Rd.).
Paolo pretty much matched Ivan in the first TT so that's a toss-up.
That makes tomorrow's mountain stage important. Paolo HAS to retain his proximity to CSC's Basso to stand a chance of winning the Giro.
What's going to happen? With Tom Danielson out Discovery is out their best climber for support of Savoldelli.
Tune in tomorrow and let's see WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS!
Tomorrow is a rest day and soon we'll see the ITT which then sets up the problems with the Seistrierre stage. This is going to KILL Deluca if he doesn't have a good day. And if Danielo has to put everything into the ITT how will he face a really hard Olympic stage?
Where is Redwood Rd.? I have not been down that way for 3 years and and I simply can't rememer. Most of Skyline is quite a bit higher than 600 ft. I think only near Crystal Springs does it get that low. Are you talking about the difference between the bottom and the top of that road? Dang, why can't I remember?
Where is Redwood Rd.? I have not been down that way for 3 years and and I simply can't rememer. Most of Skyline is quite a bit higher than 600 ft. I think only near Crystal Springs does it get that low. Are you talking about the difference between the bottom and the top of that road? Dang, why can't I remember?
Where is Redwood Rd.? I have not been down that way for 3 years and and I simply can't rememer. Most of Skyline is quite a bit higher than 600 ft. I think only near Crystal Springs does it get that low. Are you talking about the difference between the bottom and the top of that road? Dang, why can't I remember?
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Where is Redwood Rd.? I have not been down that way for 3 years and and I simply can't rememer. Most of Skyline is quite a bit higher than 600 ft. I think only near Crystal Springs does it get that low. Are you talking about the difference between the bottom and the top of that road? Dang, why can't I remember?
Wrong Skyline. The road on the top of the Oakland hills is Skyline as well and it is about 600-800 feet depending on location.
You're quite correct that most of the western peninsula Skyline is indeed over 1,000 feet and I think that the high spot is 1,600.
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Chris M said:
Where is Redwood Rd.? I have not been down that way for 3 years and and I simply can't rememer. Most of Skyline is quite a bit higher than 600 ft. I think only near Crystal Springs does it get that low. Are you talking about the difference between the bottom and the top of that road? Dang, why can't I remember?
Yeah but where you actually start the climb is at the intersection of Highway 13 and Redwood Rd which is a little under 500 feet to start. On my Altimeter it has always shown about 600 ft of climbing up that road. And it ain't that much fun since it's 12% for a good deal of the way. And the traffic sucks.
