Hasta La Vista Vuelta a Espana

The Vuelta is over, so I can go back to sleeping at 10pm+ instead of 11.30pm+. My team ended up 250th out of 500 or so, which I'm pretty pleased with considering that there's a great deal of luck involved if you want to get any higher. You can't forecast who will fall ill, crash or withdraw (this happenend to 3 of my riders, Pereiro, Danielson and the expensive poster-boy Boonen).

My team managed...

• 8 stage wins out of 21 (Bennati - 3, Petacchi - 2, Zabel - 1, Menchov - 1, Rodriquez - 1)
• 1,2,7,9 and 16th in the GC
• 1,2,4,6,10,16 and 20th in Points
• 1,3,9 and 10th in the Mountains
• 1,3,7,12 and 13th in the Combination category

Not bad considering that until earlier in 2007 my knowledge of the current roster of pro riders was limited to just the big names.