Friday will be a day for the GC favourites to take it easy after two seriously testing days and focus their mental energies on the weekend time trail to come while the sprinters will be geeing to jam down the roads from Reinosa to Logroño. Only a feed-zone and small, un-classified climbs will face the riders on the 184.3-kilometre run where at the end a sprinter should reign.
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