Today’s mountain time trial to Plan de Corones tested the weary legs of the Slipstream/Chipotle H30 crew. One rider - Canadian Ryder Hesjedal - felt at home on the challenging course.
“Today was spectacular! Easily one of the coolest time trials I have ever done,” said Ryder, who covered the 12.9 km course in 44′42″. Ryder […]

Today’s individual time trial - though short at 12.85 km - goes straight up for 1080 meters of climbing with an average grade of 7.9%. The last 5.25 km of the climb are on a gravel road that tops out at 24% grade!
If Ryder Hesjedal still has something left, this could be his day to […]

Good weather, good form and cool team mates all add up to an awesome week of racing at the Volta a Catalunya. It felt good to actually be ‘racing’ in the final of such a big race. It was a really cool feeling to have the team looking after me with Trent and Tommy […]

Traversing the Dolomite mountains, today’s stage - with its six classified climbs and almost 5,000 meters of climbing - was all about survival. After two hard weeks of racing, and more fun to come, the Slipstream/Chipotle H3O crew’s sole focus today was to finish. Ryder Hesjedal (above) was the first across while the rest of […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Today anything was possible. With a heavy rain, a technically hard circuit, a short 106 stage and a close overall classification, it was still unsure who would take the overall win. So, like every other start, it was very fast. We had some good chances to go for a stage […]

For reasons unknown to me, I decided to go in the breakaway today. Little did I know that today would end up being an epic stage with an elite group all thinking the same thing as myself. I was already in trouble when Sella attacked, and in all honesty, I didn’t even think about […]

Christian Vande Velde with Alberto Contador on his wheel on the final climb.
Christian Vande Velde continued to demonstrate his tenacity and talent as one of the Giro’s top 20 riders with a heroic 16th place finish in today’s first mountain stage. Riding with the front chase group for most of the race, Christian quietly hung […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Again a blazing fast start. We had Christophe Laurent in all the moves that went the first 40 km. But the day’s breakaway didn’t go until right after Tom Peterson was taken down in a crash with three other riders. (Tom is fine and finished the stage.)
There were no […]