La Vuelta Femenina stage 5 LIVE: After a frantic start a five rider breakaway is finally established

Despite being caught so close to the line on stage 4, Lauretta Hanson (Lidl-Trek) wasn't happy, though other breakaway riders were celebrating.
"To come so close is a bit heartbreaking," said Hanson.

Sara Martín (Movistar), Idoia Eraso (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) and Marina Garau (Vini Fantini-Bepink) Aniek van Alphen (Fenix-Premier Tech) and Alice Coutinho (Mayenne-Monbana My Pie) have increased their lead to 2.05.
This is the day's break. Probably!

90km to go

Now the gap goes out again. Maybe the peloton is happy after all.

The gap is coming down now, it's just 35 seconds, someone in the peloton is not happy with those up the road.

In the breakaway, Coutinho is Allione's team mate and the French rider is another strong climber, maybe she can defend the jersey, or even take it herself.
They'll have to stay away from the bunch yet, they're still chasing.

This situation will suit the Mayenne team and Allione's polka-dot jersey as all the points are currently up the road, though if the same woman takes maximum points on both today's climbs they could take the jersey.

100km to go

Van Alphen and Coutinho have caught Martín, Eraso and Garau, so we have five at the front with a lead of one minute.

The breakaway is formed

Martín, Eraso and Garau are being chased by Aniek van Alphen (Fenix-Premier Tech) and Alice Coutinho (Mayenne-Monbana My Pie) who are 10 seconds behind the leaders, while the bunch are almost a minute down now.

Martín has been joined by Idoia Eraso (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) and Marina Garau (Vini Fantini-Bepink), the three of them have a 20 second lead.

Martín was being chased by two riders but they're caught and the Movistar rider's lead is out to about 15 seconds. We're flying at the moment, the average speed is 45km/h, and yes, we are going slightly uphill.

We have another attacks up the road, Spanish champion Sara Martín (Movistar) has around 10 second on the chasing peloton.

110km to go

The attacks keep coming, but nothing is sticking just yet.

Each of the classified climbs have 6, 4, 2 and 1 points, so if Allione were to win just won of them she'd be safe in the jersey.

Today might have been described as the easiest of the entire week, but there are two third category climbs through the day, as well as another late intermediate sprint, with 6, 4 and 2 bonus seconds available.

Allione will be hoping to harvest a few more mountains points to consolidate the jersey, but she tried too soon, the pair are caught.

Marine Allione (Mayenne-Monbana My Pie) is wearing the polka-dot jersey of the mountains classification leader, and she's trying to get away.
With her is her team mate Justine Gegu.

118 riders took the start and some of them are attacking from the get go.

We're on our way, stage 5 of the Vuelta Femenina is underway.

The flag drops!

No rain in the forecast today, sunshine and highs of about 17º for the stage. The wind is blowing from the south, but for now it's only around 11km/h, so it shouldn't affect the race, though the final 60km will be mostly headwind, making it hard for a breakaway.

And we're rolling for 6.9km of neutralised riding.

After finally winning a stage, Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) is the overall leader. But who's close behind? And what about the other jerseys?
Who is leading what after stage 4?

The neutralised start was delayed by five minutes for stage 4, so maybe it will be today.

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Today is arguably the easiest of the whole week, but things never work out that way.
The climbing starts to ramp up before the final weekend onslaught.

Before we get going, how exciting was stage 4? A nail-biting, will-they-won't-they pursuit of the day's breakaway.
Lotte Kopecky finally won, bonus points helped her claim the race lead.

Sign on is well under way in León. UAE Team ADQ lead the teams classification.

We've headed east, leaving Galicia for Castile y León, for a slightly earlier start. We're due to roll out of León at 13:55 for 6.9km of neutral before the 119.6km stage to Astorga.

Good afternoon, we're back for stage 5 of the La Vuelta Femenina, welcome along for our live coverage.