the agony and the ecstasy

giro d'italia stage 18

There is no peloton. 

Not for all it matters, anyway. They’re just over twenty minutes behind on the road. They may as well be in another country — may as well be on another planet. 

There’s no breakaway either, leastways not after these two have laid waste to it with a couple of successive moves off the front, each thoroughly predictable but equally unst…