Something little still missing

“From the team´s point of view, everything worked out well, which is the most important thing. Vino came in third and didn’t fall behind. As for myself, I´m not in the kind of shape that I had expected at the start. I´m feeling better than I did in the first stages but I still fall short of something to be able to keep up with the best ones. I believe to get into the rhythm soon. If it hadn’t been for the crash from the first day I would be happy with the race progress,” Roman added.“The worst enemy of today´s stage for the riders was the rain. “The temperature dropped from 30 to 16 degrees but when it stopped raining towards the end, it got warmer,” Roman described. Roman wasn’t  feeling bad on the last climb. “It was a short climb but very intensive. I was planning to attack at one point but the Rabobank guys set the pace so high to keep Gesink out of the trouble that there was no point. And certainly, they paid the price for it as they burnt themselves out. I coped quite well, but I am just still lacking something little to be able to keep up with the best ones.” Stage 4 (Lorient-Mur-de-Bretagne, 172.5km): 1st Cadel Evans (Aus/BMC) 4:11:39, 2nd Alberto Contador (Spa/Saxo Bank-Sungard), 3rd Alexandr Vinokurov (Astana), 4th Rigoberto Uran (Col/Sky), 5th Philippe Gilbert (Bel/Omega Pharma-Lotto), 6th Thor Hushovd (Nor/Garmin-Cervélo), … 15th Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Astana) +8.Overall: 1st Hushovd 13:58:25, 2nd Evans +1, 3rd F. Schleck (Lux/Leoprad-Trek) +4, 4th David Millar (GBr/Garmin-Cervélo) +8, 5th Andreas Klöden (Ger/RadioShack), 6th Bradley Wiggins (GBr./Sky) +10, … 55th Roman Kreuziger +2:29.