{"id":771,"date":"2008-04-25T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/25\/tdg-suwanee-to-dahlonega\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:44:14","slug":"tdg-suwanee-to-dahlonega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/25\/tdg-suwanee-to-dahlonega\/","title":{"rendered":"TdG: Suwanee to Dahlonega"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike today’s stage, this preview will be short and sweet. While I’m sure that the riders hardly felt like yesterday’s 20 minutes on the track at Road Atlanta felt like a day off, at least hope they got a little more rest than usual yesterday. They’ll need it for Stage Five, which is not only the longest stage in the Tour de Georgia, but also brings the first mountains.<\/p>\n

Riders will be starting in Suwanee at 10am, and will spend the next 133.4 miles (214.7km) taking the long way to Dahlonega. Check out the profile after the jump.<\/p>\n

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For their troubles, the field’s sprinters will have an opportunity for points about 18 miles after the start. And after that, the race will face its first Cat 3 climb up Burnt Mountain starting at mile 54 (or so). What remains of the peloton after that will be rewarded with two more Cat 3 climbs, at ~101 and ~129 miles. The finish looks to be after the peak, so we might get a nice fast finish despite it all.<\/p>\n

Team High Road’s Henderson remains in yellow, with teammate Andre Greipel 15″ behind him. Greipel’s not alone in only being 15″ off the mark – Slipstream’s Danielson and Vande Velde occupy that position, too. Notably, Leipheimer is 19″ back, and will have to work hard to find a way to lose those seconds between him and Danielson\/Vande Velde. (Henderson has already said that he just hopes he can get over the hills . . .).<\/p>\n

So, with all of these big names motivated to be in the mix, Stage Five should prove to be interesting.<\/p>\n

Most of these jerseys will change hands at the end of today:<\/p>\n

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-Race leaders at the end of Stage Four<\/em><\/p>\n

What to say about Suwanee and Dahlonega? Well, Suwanee is something of a new town, representing the ever-present advancement of Atlanta’s exurban borders. Dahlonega’s a completely different sort of place – definitely a mountain town. And it was there before Atlanta – growing out of the Georgia gold rush of 1828.<\/p>\n

I got nothing specific in terms of music for you, but if you want to experience these two towns, do this – turn your radio to a bland and safe adult contemporary station. Listen long enough to realize that while it’s comfortable, there’s nothing really there. Then move on down the dial to some college station with a DJ that has a fetish for old bluegrass. Maybe you like it, maybe you don’t. But it’s clearly it’s own flavor. There’s your Suwanee to Dahlonega tour in music.<\/p>\n

Want to watch the race live?<\/strong> Live video from WCSN<\/a> will start at 12:30pm EDT. Those of you outside of the US, can get it free from Cycling.tv here<\/a>, time uncertain. The Tour Tracker<\/a> should start its coverage when the things get moving at 10am EDT.<\/p>\n

originally posted to PodiumCafe.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike today’s stage, this preview will be short and sweet. While I’m sure that the riders hardly felt like yesterday’s 20 minutes on the track at Road Atlanta felt like a day off, at least hope they got a little more rest than usual yesterday. They’ll need it for Stage Five, which is not only […]<\/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-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}