{"id":754,"date":"2008-04-20T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/20\/tour-de-georgia-stage-one-from-tybee-to-savannah\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:54:40","slug":"tour-de-georgia-stage-one-from-tybee-to-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/20\/tour-de-georgia-stage-one-from-tybee-to-savannah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Georgia: Stage One &#8211; From Tybee to Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Tour de Georgia will kick off its first stage with a run between Tybee Island and Savannah.  The stage takes something of a <a href=\"http:\/\/tourdegeorgia.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/pressreleases\/tourdegeorgiamaps\/08_TdG_Stage_1_Course_Map.pdf\">lollipop-shaped out-and-sort-of-back<\/a> approach over 70.4 <a href=\"http:\/\/tourdegeorgia.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/pressreleases\/tourdegeorgiamaps\/TdG_Stage_1_Profile.pdf\">very flat<\/a> miles.<\/p>\n<p>The peloton will start at Tybee Island* at 10:30a.   They&#8217;ll head toward Savannah through the salt marshes on the only road connecting the island with the rest of the state.  They&#8217;ll pass through downtown, make a loop through the western suburbs, and return for a downtown finish on Tatnall Street between 1 and 1:30p.<\/p>\n<p>From start to finish, there will be three sprint points and four time bonus opportunities.  The course does involve a number of railroad crossings (and at least one drawbridge), but I don&#8217;t expect them to play much of a role in the race.   The weather seems to be cooperating, with expectations that it will be a sunny day yielding temps in the high 70s\/24-26.  More importantly, it&#8217;s not expected to be too windy.  However, those coastal winds can change in a heartbeat, and if it picks up, it could be a real factor in the open area between Tybee Island and Savannah.<\/p>\n<p>Given the relatively even footing that a flat stage puts the teams on, this may turn out to be a stage in which one of the lesser known domestic teams can make a statement.   Local boys <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thebeanteam.com\/\">Jittery Joe&#8217;s<\/a> can always be counted on to give it a go, and Canadian team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetricscycling.com\/\">Symmetrics Cycling<\/a> sure could use a high profile win in its search for a new sponsor.  Personally, I&#8217;d love to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcopolocyclingteam.com\/en\/\">GE-Marco Polo team<\/a> surprise us all.<\/p>\n<p>*Part of Georgia&#8217;s Coastal Empire region, and one of my own favorite places on the planet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>-Crossposted to PodiumCafe.com\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Tour de Georgia will kick off its first stage with a run between Tybee Island and Savannah. The stage takes something of a lollipop-shaped out-and-sort-of-back approach over 70.4 very flat miles. The peloton will start at Tybee Island* at 10:30a. They&#8217;ll head toward Savannah through the salt marshes on the only road connecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}