Team Garmin-Transitions’ Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia.
Giro d’Italia Stage 4 – Team Time Trial
The alarm goes off, open the curtains and its a perfect sunny day. So we think. On our way to the course in the afternoon the clouds start rolling in and with just over and hour before we start the thunder roars and yep we are going to get wet.
33km Team Time Trial which is going to have a little bit of everything in it. Some teams were getting wet at the end of the course, some in the middle and some at the start. Every team had a little bit of storm, a little bit of sunshine and a little bit of wind from all directions.
Even after losing Christian Vande Velde the day before to a broken collar bone we believed we were still a shot for the wind. It was going to be tough on a flat, fast circuit like this one to hold the speed with one less rider but we gave it one hell of a crack. Unfortunately our run of luck with the weather was not a favourable one and we did not have the horse power today and feel away to an eighth place finish.
We averaged around 52km/hr but were 49 seconds off the pace of the winning team. David Millar has now dropped down on the overall classification but still holds a top ten. We will look for stage wins with Tyler Farrar over the next couple of days who has proven he is one of the fastest guys at this years race.
On a personal note I am feeling much better and am looking forward to getting stronger each day from now. I played as big a part as I could of yesterday in the TTT and although disappointed with our overall result the sensations of better form is slowly coming back.
Watch for the Argyle sprint train over the next few days.
Ciao,
Cam
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