Cameron Wurf

Cam Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - New buddy in the bunch

September 13, 2013

Today our team manager had one simple demand of us: don’t miss the breakaway! Miss it and your chasing it!! So with that, we all knew it was easier for us to be in everything that went up the road than have to chase it all back. The team shared the load of following all […]

Cam Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - a ticking time bomb

September 12, 2013

Today was a ticking time bomb after our day of leisure yesterday. The peloton was full of beans and the wind was blowing just hard enough that if a team wanted to blow the race to bits, the opportunity was there for the taking. However, there is always hesitation to be the team who turns […]

Cam Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - a short but tough stage

September 10, 2013

Today is the final stage before the rest day. It was nearly 100km shorter than yesterday with only three climbs on the menu - none which were overly steep, but just steep enough for a strong team to absolutely decimate a peloton with some ferocious pace-setting. The only thing missing was a team with the […]

Cam Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - Survival mode

September 9, 2013

The queen stage of any grand tour is always meant to present the greatest challenge to the peloton. For me, that was certainly the case. From the first kilometer I was suffering and with the 224km stage culminating atop the Col de Peyresourde, the suffering didn’t end until I crossed the finish line. I would […]

Cam Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - The Rat was first up the drain pipe!

September 8, 2013

What an absolute cracker of a day. Daniele the ‘Rat Man Rattster’ has been banging on the door for a jolly long time and today he completely blew the door off its hinges! He has come in second or third place more than any other rider this year and to take his first victory on […]

Cameron Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - No easy days

September 7, 2013

Today had the potential to go one of two ways; full gas or nice and easy. Stage 13 looked ideal for a breakaway to take the spoils and the only questions were how long it would take the break to form, and which riders would make it. Sure enough the full gas scenario panned out. […]

Cameron Wurf’s Vuelta diary - pinching seconds

September 6, 2013

I got the feeling that it was a pretty unmotivated bunch this morning at the start of stage 12. With most people using the time trial as a rest day, it seemed like most of the peloton’s engine had shut down and nobody wanted to make the stage harder than it needed to be. On […]

Cameron Wurf’s Vuelta Diary: It’s TT Time!

September 5, 2013

Today we jumped straight into a ITT, a nice way to get our engines running again after yesterday’s day of leisure. The 38.8km course was pretty straight forward: 18km up and 20.8km down! Like the rest of the Vuelta, I don’t remember there being much in the way of flat so you always had something […]

Cameron Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - Rest Day

September 4, 2013

After ten days of action we were rewarded with a rest day today. The rest day marks the halfway point in the race and while it seems to have taken an eternity to get to this point, I am certain the second half will go by in a flash.

Cameron Wurf’s Vuelta Diary - a bit banged up

September 3, 2013

On paper today’s stage looked like it would go off like a fire cracker — and that’s exactly what happened. Before each stage officially begins we have a neutralised section of between 2 and 20km where the peloton does a bit of a parade through the host city at the start of the race. Once […]