Tour video – previewing the TTT course
See the team as they scout the course one last time before riding to their strong second place finish, despite high winds and a challenging course.
Food site profiles Team Garmin-Slipstream’s diet
The award-winning food web site Epicurious recently wrote an article about healthy energy food, speaking with Timmy Duggan and Allen Lim in order to get an insight into the team’s much-talked about dietary plan.
With the Tour de France kicking off next week and several other big road races, such as the Giro d’Italia, [...]
Injured Reserves: Blake Caldwell update
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Blake Caldwell is one of many of the Argyle Armada that is currently recovering from an injury — in his case a broken hip. But with a little time, and some ’space-age’ equipment from Dr. Allen Lim, he should be back on the bike sometime soon.
Like several of you, I’ve been anxiously sitting [...]
Growing Up
Provided courtesy of Saris Cycling Group
My older brother and his wife are going to have a baby in three weeks. It will be their first child — the first of our family’s next generation. Between baby showers and trips to ‘Babies R Us,’ I’ve been taking every opportunity to make fun of him, razing [...]
Bicycling.com: The Moving Feast
Bicycling.com talks to Team Garmin-Chipotle Team Physiologist Allen Lim for an inside look at the team’s daily menu that includes meals prepared by the famous Chef Willy Balmat.
From the article: “Post-stage on the team bus, which also has its own refrigerator, riders snack on white rice and eggs drizzled with olive oil and balsamic [...]
Cooking with Allen: Rice Cakes
Allen Lim reveals all in this instructional video on how to make his rice cakes or “Francois”.
Our secret recovery weapon
Over the last two years, Team Garmin / Chipotle has earned the reputation as the leader in the fight against doping in sport. As part of this revolution, we are continuously driven to find new and innovative ways to ethically improve athletic performance. So when we were invited to compete at this year’s Tour de [...]
Tour stage 4: Why we’re world-class time trialers
Featured Athlete: David Millar
We slept them, we fed them, we warmed them up, we cooled them down, we fed them again, we compressed them, we drove them, we dressed them, we fed them some more, we warmed them up, we iced them down, we made them drink, and in the end, they went really fast. [...]
Looking after our
yellow numbers
I’ve got a yellow number! I’ve never been on a TdF team good enough to get yellow numbers. We get them because we’re leading the team GC. This is due to Will’s excellent breakaway and near miss a couple of days ago. That launched us into first place. Then between Danny, Christian and myself, [...]
Scientific American: Winning the Tour with cutting-edge technology
Scientific American looks at the gear necessary to win a Grand Tour. The article takes a particularly close look at Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O’s impressive Felt fleet.
“We create frames that will cut through the air faster than a standard or traditional round-tube bicycle frame,” says Bill Duehring, Felt’s president. “We calculate that, in a five-hour race, [...]
Tommy D caught flying uphill
Under the guidance of sports physiologist guru Allen Lim, Tom Danielson has been training hard in and around the hills of Girona and Barcelona. In this video, Tommy D takes on Mt Montseny outside Barcelona, Spain.
Injured Reserves Report: Za Dave heading home
For me there’s a particular point in our medical team’s management of a serious injury situation when I feel the most relief. That’s when the involved rider gets on a plane and heads home. Early this morning our Team Physiologist Allen Lim took Dave Z to a small nearby airport and got him headed [...]
The calm before the start
13:35 Heading out to pre-ride the 23.6 km course. Still 25 min ahead of schedule. Traffic and crowds are insane. It’ll take us a little more time to get to start just trying to move through all the crowds.
14:00 The calm before the storm. A small moment of peace for the staff as [...]
Giro drumroll…
Many of our major sponsors have come for the start. Julian Dean talks to Andy Ording from Zipp (right) before the ride.
9:15 First ride of the day. A one hour “coffee shop ride” for the boys to spin their legs out and test their spare road bikes. Dave Zabriskie arrives with with fresh bed [...]
Good morning Giro with Chef Willy’s perfect muesli
The boys got up at 8 this morning for breakfast. The hotel here isn’t letting Chef Willy into the kitchen. But he’s overseeing the prep of our food by giving the hotel cooks recipes and ingredients for the riders favorite meals. I came in after the boys finished to sample some of Chef Willy’s muesli [...]
Bicycling.com: Inside Slipstream/Chipotle’s Strategy
Bicycling’s Joe Lindsey interviews head trainer Allen Lim on the team’s impressive roster and Slipstream/Chipotle plans to put all their fire power to work for the Tour of California. Includes podcast interview with Lim on team strategy.
