Above in the red Canadian national champion jersey is Christian Meier, just to the left of Steven Cozza.
For those who don’t know me, my name is Christian Meier. I am 23 years old, from Canada and am a stagiaire with Team Garmin-Chipolte H3O. What is that you say? A stagi what? A stagiaire (French […]

The 2008 Volta a Portugal wraps up with a 31.2 km time trial.

Here are the start times for today’s 31.2 km time trial.
14:47 Tyler Farrar
14:56 Chris Sutton
14:58 Steven Cozza
15:03 Christian Meier
15:50 Pat McCarty
16:02 Lucas Euser
16:19 Dan Martin

While there wasn’t much I had to say about the last stage, there is just about everything I could write about yesterday. Stage 9 consisted of five major climbs with the first starting as we crossed the KM 0 sign and the last finishing as we crossed the finish line. There were the countless […]

Dan Martin continued to hold his own in what has become a race within a race for the Best Young jersey on today’s epic 5-climb stage in Portugal. Keeping the lead group in check, Dan didn’t let Tiago Machado, second in the Best Young race, get too far ahead of him. Machado finished 17″ ahead […]

Tought the shortest road stage of the race, the penultimate day of the 2008 Volta a Portugal will certainly test the riders’ weary legs with five climbs and a finish on high.
The climbs include in order of appearance: category 2 Lameira, category 1 Alto do Viso, category 1 Alto do Velao, category 2 Cavernelhe and […]

Tour du Limousin completed. This was phase one of my world championships build up. I’ve had a good break post Tour, although to be honest, it didn’t feel like a break. It felt more like a rehabilitation program. I was man down for two weeks. In fact three really, as before Limousin I still hadn’t […]

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O continued to defend young Dan Martin’s position despite today’s deceivingly hard stage profile at the Volta a Portugal. Chris Sutton was part of an early break that eventually broke up on the climbs. With the help of his hard working teammates, Dan Martin (pictured above) finished 10th on the stage, sticking close […]