Tour San Luis Stage 3

The queen stage of the race was a solid day for us at Liquigas-Cannondale. Nibali and Samiento showed their climbing form finishing just a few seconds behind a flying Contador and Leipheimer on the summit finish.  For me, my first big race in the hills of 2012 was allright.  Its was certailnly painful at times but that was to be expected.  other than that, just the typical getting water bottles and keeping Nibali out of the wind.  We made a big effort into the bottom of the final climb keep our climbers in perfect position as the crosswind shredded the peloton down to only 30 or so of us before we even got to the climb.  My work and my legs, pretty much done I swung off and rode up the climb at a mellow pace.  Glad to see my teammates bopping around near the front of the GC.  Vincenzo is a former winner of tomorrows time trial so we will see if he can make up some time.

The decent off of the 2000+ meter Alto de Nogoli was a ripper.  It was defenitely the funnest part of the day.  It was more or less immaculate as well, in stark contrast to the debris strewn road with sand and water crossings we had done a few days earlier.

Time trial tomorrow, “rest day” for me.

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