Etoile de Bessèges, France

Mike Friedman on today’s 120K breakaway:
“Don’t quit, don’t give up, fight till the end. After yesterday’s blow out with the climb and GC, my job was simple. Be really aggressive, make the breakaway, and take pressure off the boys. Jason and I both had this job, and we worked as a tag team initiating and […]

Team Slipstream/Chipotle H3O dug deep today and came back strong from yesterday’s thrashing. The start of the 151K loop kicked off with several breakaway attempts. It was at the 35K mark, on a descent, that Mike Friedman made the the big break of the day along with four other riders.
Halfway into the race, the break […]

Etoile de Bessèges, France

With a double ascension of the Col de la Baraque (631M), today’s decisively difficult stage 3 took its toll on the team. Only Pat McCarty and Will Frischkorn were able to hang on to the peloton over the second ascension of the climb. Mike Friedman has fallen out of the top ten in the overall […]

Etoile de Bessèges, France

After several break away attempts, Thursday’s 149K stage from Nimes to Saint Ambroix finished in a massive field sprint. Martijn Maaskant was the highest placed Slipstream finisher at 13th. Mike Friedman’s 48th place finish managed to move him up to 8th overall in the general classification.
Tomorrow’s decisive stage 3 is a figure eight-shaped circuit that […]

Etoile de Bessèges, France