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Anna, habe eben erst Dein Instagram-Posting gesehen :
"Tour de l'Ardèche - 3rd GC (=general classification).
My first international road race since promising myself three years ago to never ever do a road race again 😅. I had quite an unusual "strategy" (aka self-imposed handicap), which would make any real cyclist cringe but which makes my mother happy 🙃: I had decided to ride with a safety distance behind the peloton so as to be able to brake in case of potential crashes (or alternatively ride at the very front). I had expected to quickly get dropped, hence not ride for GC and just have fun fighting for stage wins.
In the end it all came quite differently. The second stage, which was the only stage with some real climbs, lead to huge differences in the GC and it became the natural goal to try and defend at least a podium GC spot. The 5 days that followed were not a lot of fun I have to admit. Couldn't we have traded some of the rolling hills and wind against a really really big mountain or ITT? 😎
Well in the end, thanks to my teammates (especially @sarahrijkes), we did save the 3rd place 🙂."

Liebe Grüße an Deine Mutter!
Gab es denn Stürze vor Dir, so dass sich der Sicherheitsabstand konkret bewährt hat?
Ich habe wenig von Stürzen mitbekommen - aber man hat ja generell wenig mitbekommen. Habe lediglich von der französischen Meisterin Audrey Cordon-Ragot gehört, die nach Sturz ausgestiegen ist. Mir schien, der kam aber auch ein wenig mehr Pause vor dem Giro Rosa, der morgen startet, ohnehin gelegen.

Klar, falls Deine Strategie in diesem Rennen keinen Krankenhausaufenthalt verhindert hat, sagt das natürlich nichts. Ich benutze ja auch weiter den Sicherheitsgurt, obwohl er bisher nie nötig war ...