Roadcycling.com: Christian Vande Velde interview
The latest issue of Roadcycling.com talks to Christian about his 2008 season, life on Garmin-Slipstream and his goals for the 2009 Tour de France. “Yeah I’ve had a pretty diverse career, that’s for sure. I’ve spent a lot of time being a team pursuiter. A lot of people forget about that. I had a lot [...]
Napa Valley Register: Cycling star shares his world
The Napa Valley Register features Lucas Euser and his presentation as “Speaker of the Month” at the Napa City-County Library. “By the end of high school, I was committed to the bike and knew that was my future, my sport,” Lucas said. “But I didn’t know if an actual future in it, a lucrative deal, [...]
Versus.com: Chillin' with Dave Zabriskie and more
As part of a special Versus video series on Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Silver City training camp, Robbie Ventura talks to Dave Zabriskie his form for California, his new national time trial champion skinsuit, dznuts chamois cream and his 2009 season. There are also video features on the team’s training program and the mechanical side of cycling.
Tour of Qatar stage 4: Doha Old Souq>Madinat Al Shamal
A first for the Tour of Qatar, today’s particularly stunning stage starts in the Old Souq of the capital and finishes in the coastal beauty of Madinat Al Shamal. The 141 km stage includes two intermediate sprints. Today’s stage is scheduled to start at 11:45 and finish between 14:49-15:06.
Tour of Qatar stage 3: Al Zubarah>Doha Golf Club
Stage 3 follows the northeastern coast of Qatar as heads south to the Doha Golf Club. The 137.5 km stage includes two intermediate sprints. Today’s stage is scheduled to start at 12:45 and finish between 15:41-15:57.
Qatar stage 3: Life in an echelon
Stage 3 was 141 km of riding in a construction zone. I’ve honestly never seen anything like it. If you had a giant sandbox and a lot of glue, you could do what they are doing here. At a certain point during today’s stage, I’m pretty sure I could see the curvature of the earth [...]
Quacking up in the desert
It’s windy as hell here! I think I have seen this countryside in a movie or two. “Star Wars” maybe with the sand people, or in “Tremors” with those man-eating worms. It is a sandy, windy, dust-blowing desert and we are here racing! A pretty crazy, and actually, a pretty awesome experience. Yesterday’s stage was [...]
Tour of Qatar stage 2: Khalifa Stadium>Al Khor Corniche
Today’s fast stage heads north from just outside Doha to the beautiful Al Khor Corniche. The 134 km stage will be a fast one with two intermediate sprints. Today’s stage is scheduled to start at 12:53 and finish between 15:44-16:00.
Cyclingnews: Wiggins grabs gold for Garmin
Cyclingnews reports on Team Garmin-Slipstream’s team time trial win in the opening stage of the 2009 Tour of Qatar. As the first to cross the finish line, Bradley Wiggins took the golden leader’s jersey. “There are some really important time trials coming up for us this year – the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France [...]
Our simple strategy: "Go fast!"
Six hours ago we left for our team time trial warm-up. Fours hours ago we celebrated with our first ever team time trial win in Qatar! Our strategy was simple: “Go fast!” Since I arrived two days ago – yes, two days and 36 hours of travel ago from Silver City, New Mexico – it [...]
Tour of Qatar stage 1 team time trial: Doha>Doha
The 8th Tour of Qatar opens with a 6 km team time trial that Garmin-Slipstream hopes to win this time around, taking the gold jersey from the start. Last year the team opened the 2008 season with a strong second place in the Qatar TTT. The first team starts at 15:00 and the last team [...]
Team Garmin TTT training video
Team time trial training video from Girona in January. Be sure to turn on the annotations. This is one of the team time trial exercises we did during the Girona training camp. Two days of training were completely dedicated to TTT preparation, specifically for the opening TTT in Qatar. We worked on finding the top [...]
0 to 60 in 30 seconds
Just shaved the legs for the first race of the year. The race is 6 km and is going to be very hard. We go from 0 to 60 kph in less than 30 seconds and hold it. My pulls this morning during a practice run were at 745 watts on the front. We each [...]
