by I guess today is the end of summer from a calendar point of view, but I think today was probably one of the last good sunny days for a ride. Luckily I managed to get out for a 40km ride. I haven’t had much time for the bike recently due to real-life commitments. All I need is a lottery win and I’ll have a bit more free time!
I’ve discovered two useful Strava-related services. These are Relive and MyWindsock. Relive lets you view a video of your route using Google Map’s satellite view. If you’ve taken any photos on your ride it’ll add them at the various locations where you took them. Pretty useful! They don’t allow embedded videos or downloads yet, but here is a link to my ride this morning.
MyWindsock takes your ride and shows you which way the wind was blowing. So now if you have one of those horrible rides where every direction is into the wind, you’ll be able to know for sure! The map below shows that I had a less than 50% headwind today which sounds about right.
La Vuelta
We’re over halfway through the Vuelta now and it looks as though Froome is going to win it. It’s obviously an amazing achievement but the Sky train doesn’t lead to an exciting GC race. Given the lack of sprint stages it doesn’t make for exciting viewing. It’s a shame Contador had a day of being ill but at least he tried something today. Hopefully he’ll manage a stage win or even a massive ambush.
The Tour of Britain starts this weekend and promises to be good with several star riders taking part ahead of the World Championships in a few weeks. Fingers crossed that Cav is back to full health and show something in the sprints, but I can see Gaviria winning a lot!