PCM 2011 The Basics part 2

In the previous post I said I would be looking at the arrow "condition" indicator. As I have said the initial arrow is the first phase of said indications. This initial arrow can point in 3 directions:

As you can see in this shot the directions are up down and central, these basically equate to "feeling good", "feeling bad" and "feeling so so". These are just the initial indications of how a riders feeling at this point in the stage and is not in fact a perfect guide as to how a rider is actually going to feel during phase 2.

This screen was taken from the same race and as you can see at this point Zaballa is in fact now feeling slightly down on what he felt in phase 1 while Cesaro is now a +5 and feels quite good indeed. Rocchetti is also feeling up at +3, these numbers are not exact numbers but still just feelings of how the rider feels at this point. In phase 3 we have more definite feelings from the riders, when a rider enters phase 3 we get a coloured box behind the number which looks like this:

As I was trying to quickly do this in a race I put Cesaro on the attack and possibly knocked him down to a +3 this is why as I said the numbers the rider give is not a definite until it has a coloured background. At -5 this colour is bright red while at +5 it is bright green. The more a rider is used the quicker it will become evident how he is feeling that day.

Sometimes when you go on the attack you will see your riders name flash green like this:

This means the rider feels good about the attack and that he feels he could do something with this, however I do find sometimes riders will feel good even in a hopeless situation so take this with a pinch of salt :P.