Another nearly 200 km day awaits the riders as stage 3 takes them west to Montelupone. The stage includes two mountain sprint lines and a challenging 26 km finishing circuit.
Stage 3 starts at 10:45 am and finishes up between 3:30-4:10 pm.
Slipstream Squad
Magnus Backstedt
Julian Dean
Timmy Duggan
Will Frischkorn
Ryder Hesjedal
Martijn Maaskant
Chris Sutton
David Zabriskie

Stage 5 heads back in to the “flats” of southern France for 172.5 km of category 3 hills before it finishes in Sisteron.
The stage starts at 12:22 pm and finishes between 4:15-4:45 pm.
Slipstream squad
Lucas Euser
Tyler Farrar
Christophe Laurent
Trent Lowe
Dave Millar
Danny Pate
Tom Peterson
Christian Vande Velde

Two 200 km stages later and we’ve arrived at the Adriatic. A beautiful day and once again some very controlled Italian racing. Really the very best training anybody could ask for as Classics prep with another unreal hard finish circuit.
And by unreal hard, I mean that other than the first 30 guys up […]

With a grueling finishing circuit that included a hill with 200 meters of at least a 20% gradient, today’s stage 3 saw further deterioration of the overall classification and more upward movement by Slipstream/Chipotle’s top GC contenders Ryder Hesjedal and Timmy Duggan.
“Today was an important day and the team set me up in good […]

The brutalities of the 2008 Paris-Nice finally taking their toll, several riders did not start today’s stage 5 including Slipstream/Chipotle’s David Millar. Suffering from a fever, cough, and fatigue, David opted for the flight back to Girona where he will recover.
The rest of the Slipstream/Chipotle squad held their own despite having, at some point, […]

Yesterday, we started in yet another wind-blown valley of France with yet another historic piece of cycling culture looming in front of us. Mont Ventoux. There have been many obstacles on our way to the sunny beaches of Nice, but this one by far was the most daunting and magical.
In order to get to […]

The Sun-Sentinel.com features Jason Donald and the dietary needs and discipline of the Slipstream/Chipotle H3O team. Said Donald, “I eat the same thing everybody else should eat,” says Donald, a native of Winter Park, Colo. “Fruits and vegetables and a little protein. People would be surprised at how normal my diet is.”

For those of you who remember my little monologue back in November at our team launch, perhaps you vaguely recall one rather somber note. I said, ‘We must embrace failure and celebrate the rarity of victory.” Those of you who have been following our team’s rather euphoric ride for the last six weeks were […]