The 2012 Giro d'Italia is nearly over. I've only modeled a couple of stages of this race in the past, mostly because my spring semester keeps me extremely busy as the race gets underway. This year has been no exception. A rising sophomore Lynchburg College physics student, Brian Ramsey, is working with me this summer in preparation for modeling the 2012 Tour de France. We thought a nice warm-up exercise would be to model a few stages of this summer's Giro.
To introduce Brian to what it's like to stick one's neck out for science, I had him model tomorrow's Stage 17 using the model I developed for the Tour de France. Tomorrow's stage is a wonderful mountain ride that takes cyclists from Falzes to Cortina d'Ampezzo. Here is our prediction for tomorrow's stage:
- Stage 17: 5h 28' 26" (prediction)
We shall see what happens!
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