Cycling: 2009 Vuelta a Espana

+14.8 units for the stage. I lost about 17 units yesterday. Nice way to bounce back!

-14 for the stage - yesterday

Stage 1: no bet
Stage 2: +4.85 units
Stage 3: -10 units
Stage 4: +42.39 units
Stage 5: -2.2 units
Stage 6: +1.2 units
Stage 7: -12.5 units
Stage 8: -1.42 units
Stage 9: -9.05 units
Stage 10: +.23 units
Stage 11: +17.46 units
Stage 12: -14 units
Stage 13: +14.8 units

Vuelta Overall:

+31.76 for the Vuelta

6 units Cobo over Danielson @ $1.75

This was after stage 13

Juanjo Cobo: "I bonked really hard in the last kilometers of Sierra Nevada, and I haven't still figured why, because I didn't forget eating and drinking. I don't know if it has just been the big effort of yesterday, or maybe the big efforts I took in the last slopes of Monachil. I knew that the road up Sierra Nevada was easier to keep the others' wheel, and tried to keep up with the group's pace, but I had to go down in the last part. It's been pure agony to the finish, and I have to thank my mate Kessiakoff for the big work done at the end, pushing me in the last kilometers even after a big break from the start. After all, I'm just behind the best ten, and I'm sure it has just been a bad moment, because the legs were better than tomorrow. That's why we have to go for victory tomorrow, and so much lost time gives me a chance to do it in the break."

He bounced back. With the liklihood of a break going today, I think the same applies today, Fuji will send someone up the road.

Duran, De La Fuente, Cobo, Inxausti, Kessiakoff, Del Nero all remain. De La Fuente would be my tip they send up the road.

Garmin will send someone up the road. Perhaps Dan Martin or David Millar? Probably Martin.

Xacobeo and Andaluciar - that's a pick of the that.

Hoogerland might go.

Bbox are down to three riders: Bonnet, Gaudin and Bonnaire. You would think one of them would try the break.

 At the moment I might look at backing Martin, Hoogerland and a Fuji rider at odds. Then back in play if need be.