Haute Route Dolomites, stage 2.

Stage 2, could have been a good day for me with it mostly being 2 time trials. But ended up a little flat... We firstly had 57k neutralise rolling. This seemed to put me to sleep a little. Then once we got going I found my friend Oliver, a strong French guy with a lot of experience. The first 30k of the furkapass was rolling you could say and having ridden with Oliver before I knew he ride like me, very consistently. We were moving along well then saw barriers ahead, bloody train crossing. 2 minutes stationary and you wonder why you bothered to work in the previous 5k... Off we went again at a good lick and 15k, bang, another train crossing and the barrier was again across! Double bad luck. Once we finally hit the real start of the furkapass (around 15k at 7%) I went to the front and thanked oliver for his awesome work! He gave me s couple of his clients to pace up the climb as he was looking after the slightly slower one. I chewed average power up this climb feeling the cold more and more but very glad the rain was holding off. Once we summited I only had one guy with me, he thanked me for pacing him. All kit on and a good few hundred calories consumed I started the descent. Rain still behaving, I was just able to stay warm enough. Andermatt in front of me I found the feed station with out support to unload our descending kit. A 10k climb was all that we had left, a few of us started it together with the theory we would help each other on the flat section towards the final 3-4k. This was good theory but we all separated inside 500m so I rode it solo. Not ideal, and with sticky legs too.

One of the biblical view on route to St Moritz. Doesn't actually look real..

I don't think I ended the day too badly in GC, but not great. Tomorrow is another day and it brings the time trial. A pretty flat one by haute route standards, I'm debating giving it the full beans or not, I'm more looking forward to the little lay in.My alarm call might have a 6 or 7 at the start of it...?! Bliss! Thanks for reading as usual.