A phsyio's tale: Throw the book out the window
Team Garmin-Transitions’ physiotherapist Toby Watson will be checking in from the roads in France during Le Tour (literally from the roads as the transfers from start to finish in the car are the medical staff’s only down time!) There was a quote one of our boys gave on a day he crashed twice in 200m: [...]
A physio's tale: Two day theory
Team Garmin-Transitions’ physiotherapist Toby Watson will be checking in from the roads in France during Le Tour (literally from the roads as the transfers from start to finish in the car are the medical staff’s only down time!) Ow… ow… ow… ow… It hurts just looking at it! It is a very fortunate thing that [...]
A physio's tale: The bounce!
Team Garmin-Transitions’ physiotherapist Toby Watson will be checking in from the roads in France during Le Tour (literally from the roads as the transfers from start to finish in the car are the staff’s only down time!) During stage 3 the physio team was ‘deployed’ to help with wheel changes and feeding on the cobbles. [...]
A physio's tale: Tour de France, stage 2
Team Garmin-Transitions’ physiotherapist Toby Watson will be checking in from the roads in France during Le Tour (literally from the roads as the transfers from start to finish in the car is the staff’s only down time!) After stage 2 the physio team was ‘on the rivet’ themselves tending to the carnage. (You can follow [...]
The Millar Diaries: Absolute carnage
Today was definitely in my top five worst days on a bike… ever; and that’s a big call considering the length of my career! My first crash was a simple race incident where Christian, Julian and myself were well-positioned at the front, but someone in front of us lost control before the Stockeu. This didn’t [...]
Cam Meyer Giro blog: First mountain-top
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia. Giro d’Italia Stage 8 – First mountain-top Well I am on the massage table finally after a post stage transfer of 2 hours. This is a good time for me to introduce to you my soigneur (french term for a person [...]
Cam Meyer Giro blog: Things are looking up
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia. Giro d’Italia Stage 6 – Things are looking up What a great stage. I really enjoyed todays race and most is due to the fact my legs felt good and my health felt much better. This stage had a little bit [...]
Cam Meyer Giro blog: Team Time Trial
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia. Giro d’Italia Stage 4 – Team Time Trial The alarm goes off, open the curtains and its a perfect sunny day. So we think. On our way to the course in the afternoon the clouds start rolling in and with just [...]
Cam Meyer Giro blog: Farrar on Fire!
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia. Giro d’Italia, stage 2 – Farrar on Fire! What a stage it was. Anyone who had the pleasure of watching Tyler Farrar’s win yesterday would of witnessed a perfectly executed sprint and one the whole team was very proud of. An [...]
Cam Meyer Giro blog: Down but not out!
Team Garmin-Transitions Cameron Meyer will be sending in regular dispatches from the Giro d’Italia. Giro d’Italia, stage 1 – Down but not out! What an interesting last 24 hours I have had. Saturday was the opening stage of this years Giro. An 8.4km prologue around the streets of Amsterdam. Riders had the chance of riding [...]
Rider diary: Meyer brothers at Track Worlds
Team Garmin-Transitions will be well represented at this year’s track world championships, thanks to its Aussie contingent of Cameron Meyer and younger brother Travis, as well as the up-and-coming talent Jack Bobridge. The Meyer brothers sent along this diary entry from Copenhagen: Travis: Cam and I are currently in Copenhagen for the 2010 Track Cycling [...]
Rider diary: Stetina making a splash
One of Team Garmin-Transitions’ neo-pros, Peter Stetina, is making the most of his debut races in Europe, including making it into a two-rider break for 160km in the Volta a Catalunya, taking over the KOM jersey. He gives us a recap of his season so far in this diary entry: Today was a career highlight [...]
Rider diary: Hesjedal's Strade Bianche
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Ryder Hesjedal has turned into our man for the increasingly revered Montepaschi Strade Bianche race, over the white marble roads around Siena, Italy. After two top ten placings the last two years he delivered another solid performance, making it into the final selection and finishing fifth. Well, my goal was to better a [...]
Cozza's diary: A cheetah drive-by, rain and sandstorms in Qatar
After settling in to our desert oasis, we went for a ride. Many extremely strange things happened today. That’s why I like traveling so much! It’s just been one great adventure already. Just five minutes after leaving the hotel parking lot, I sensed something was looking at me. I turned to my left and there, [...]
Video: Millar Time – Aero Wheels
In response to a recent reader comment we present to you another edition of Millar Time, with your host David Millar. In this episode Canadian cyclist of the decade Ryder Hesjedal gets grilled about his mysterious new wheels:
Cyclingnews: David Millar interview
Team Garmin-Transitions captain David Millar recently did a feature interview with Cyclingnews about his career and his role on the World Anti-doping Authority’s Athlete’s Committee. The sport of cycling has arguably suffered more than any other sport from the scourge of doping, and as the antidoping authorities finally begin to get ahead of the dopers [...]
The Millar Diaries: Winning.
I am so relieved that I won — I am so happy that I felt as good as I hoped to — and above all, I am over the bloody moon I won a sword! But what makes this great is that I can share my success with my team. Kiwi Guy is sitting here [...]
The Millar Diaries – Crash
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Crash v. crashed, crash-ing, crash-es a. To break violently or noisily; smash. b. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact. This happens often in bike racing, often due to one or more of these six reasons: 1. Mechanically induced (puncture [...]
The Millar Diaries – Hotel hunting sessions
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Ryder Hesjedal and I have become talented skeeter hunters. ‘Skeeter’ is Ryder’s name for mosquitoes and a term I have quickly come to adopt. Last night, Ryder was sufficiently pleased and impressed to be woken at 3:00 a.m. when I, in [...]
The Millar Diaries – One for the ages
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Millar battles the elements in the Vuelta prologue Well that was a bit crap. The weather was always going to be a bit of a lottery today, since first thing this morning it has been intermittent torrential rain and blue skies, [...]
The Millar Diaries – Grand Tour número tres
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. On the bus in northern Holland, on the way to the start of my third Grand Tour of the year (I didn’t finish the Giro, a planned retirement on stage 15 saw to that, so it’s not as if I’m attempting [...]
The Millar Diaries: Them are the breaks
Friday, July 17 — I’ve been trying really hard to get in the break the last two days. Thursday I ended up trying too hard, I was probably one of the strongest in the race that day — well I certainly was of the riders who wanted to go for the stage win, but unfortunately [...]
The Millar Diaries: Just plain crazy
About 30km into the stage today, Fabian Cancellera (aka: Swiss Bear, Spartacus, Big Baby, Freak…) pulled up beside me, sat up and reached inside the front of his jersey while shouting in his loud cheery way, ‘Millar! I have a present for you!’ This was the conclusion to what had been the most-wacky first 30 [...]
