Hello everyone! I am writing to you from the massage table after day three of Four (six actually) Days of Dunkirk. Joachim is my massage therapist this week and I am happy to report he has good legs to work on.
I’m sure a lot of you are wondering why I am at a flat, […]

Another day like the past two here. Lots of polished up sun tans in the bunch and, unfortunately, a few bodies with a bit of blood showing crossed the finish line today. The lack of crashes yesterday was balanced out with a few in the once again crazy finish today. Fortunately, we all managed to […]

Review of Dan Martin’s Trophée de Grimpeur power performance
Last Sunday, Dan Martin raced the Trophée des Grimpeurs, a one-day race over 17 laps for a total distance of 137.3 km. In the figure below you see on the x-axis the time and on the y-axis in yellow the power output (watt), in green the […]

I have received a number of notes from friends and family wondering why I wasn’t on the Giro roster. Back in November, the Giro was the focus of my early season. My schedule was even changed early February to better prepare for the epic adventure. I was excited, the team was excited. Moreover, […]

Things started today with a crazy, aggressive first 40 km; group after group getting a few seconds, the peloton splitting in half, and stress levels climbing well into the red. Then two riders attacked, everybody sat up, looked around for a bit and decided that was the move.
50, then 60, then 70 km […]

With sun, blue skies and less than 40 kph winds, we’re all pretty excited to be up here in northern france right now for the “4 - held over 6 - Days of Dunkerque”. A race notorious for wind-shredded fields will be a good opportunity for a good chunk of us that are returning […]

How can you make fast guys go faster?
We attempted to do just that during the team time trial training camp here in Girona. After our second place finish in the team time trail (TTT) in Qatar and our TTT win at the Tour de Georgia, we should be ready to be competitive in the […]

OK. That was the hardest short race of the year! It kinda hurts not getting the results down on paper. But hell, that’s bike racing!
It was basically a sprint up the steep finish climb every lap (17 total laps!). I stayed right up front and made the split with five laps to go. […]