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 […]

The Argyle Armada takes it up a notch this month as the team competes in its first ever Grand Tour - the Giro d’Italia. Team Slipstream/Chipotle H3O has been putting the final touches on the team’s preparations and will arrive in Palermo with rose-colored goals.
With four time trial stages (three individual and one team), this […]

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. […]

DS Johnny Weltz reports from Slipstream/Chipotle H3O’s team time trial training camp in Girona, Spain that is running through Monday, May 5.
The team time trial camp here in Girona is going very well. We have ten riders here and nine of them will be going to the Giro. We’ll make the final selection on Tuesday. […]

It has been quite a bummer missing all of April’s great races because of a wrecked collarbone. After going for quite a few check-ups back home, the doctors concluded that it was a non-unioned fracture which is presumably a collarbone crack that never really heals unless acted upon. Kevin, our team chiropractor, kindly sent me a bone stimulator which […]

Before the start of the final stage of the 2008 Tour de Georgia, Jonathan Vaughters and the entire Slipstream/Chipotle H3O team took a little detour to visit a young cyclist in his Atlanta hospital room. The visit was a surprise for Russell Tindol and also included the gift of a sweat and champagne soaked jersey […]