Team Europcar TDF Challenge Thread (Page 2)

Sappho - never thought of that, I've never even had a bike without "knobbly tires" and I'm still figuring out the gears,lol - only the second bike I've had with gears - but I may look at it at a later date.

Dumb question - is it worth getting aero bars on that bike? I just looked at the price of the road bikes and they're a bit rich for my blood, but when I do aero position on the gym bike I seem a lot more comfortable than when I use the regular sitting up with the traditional handlebar set up

OK, late to the party, but goals are done...  I gots some catch up to do already.... I signed up for a sprint on the 15th, so that should provide some motivation...

  I have no idea what a race looks like without the backside of a lot of people in front of me...  BOP baby, BOP!

Team standings as of 2pm (EST) Friday - not counting any riders who have no data in their team spreadsheet

Sky = 29.2%

BMC = 25.6%

Omega Pharma = 24.1%

Garmin = 20.9%

Liquigas = 20.3%

Europcar = 8.5% (if I used the correct spreadsheet, they have multiple)

The one that is linked on the first page of our thread is this one:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An7ZkKfHG1L1dHpwV01KY3A1ZnUzbnlncm1TM2tGa0E#gid=0

How do we get rid of the other ones?

All righty team!  time to make sure you have been filling in the right spreadsheet!!!  Got 80 min and a stage in this evening...  need to go longer tomorrow to get caught up!!!   Go Team Europcar!

All you need is to login to Google docs using the login info provided by the link.

No worries!  wbayek also mentioned being on vacation until next Sunday, so he said he won't be logging until then.  Our standings will just have to be un-meaningful until he gets back.  No big deal!

Team standings after the first week of racing:

1. Sky = 36.8% - all aboard! (staying in the lead)

2. Garmin = 32.1% - includes 1 who is off hunting somewhere (moved up 2 places)

3. BMC = 31.2% - includes 1 who has yet to start (dropped back 1 place)

4. Omega Pharma = 28.0% - includes 1 who has yet to start (dropped back 1 place)

5. Europcar = 19.9% - includes 1 who has yet to start (moved up 1 place)

6. Liquigas = 19.4% - includes 2 who have yet to start (dropped back 1 place)

good idea, I am waiting until closer to dusk to get out today....

Hey teammates - I'm finally online and updated my numbers. Hope everyone is staying healthy and feeling strong.

I had a huge week, so I'm a little ahead and may change my goal to a quarter TdF.  347 miles logged and our team average is now 27.63% so we're MOP!  Yeehaw, and ride safe.

That is insane heat.  Good call on the trainer and stay safe above all else.

Lucky.  It's been 80-90F at dawn around here the past few weeks.  

I usually do my long runs Saturday morning, and I gave up this weekend when I realized I would have to run at 3am if I wanted to do it in "cool" weather (aka 83F/ heat index of 88F).  Gladly the heat wave broke Saturday night, so I was able to do my long run Sunday evening.

well in yogachic! did 3.46 miles in work today and thinking a longer route home as no tdf to watch on my trainer tonight