Rider diary: Pooley victorious in the mountains of Ardeche
Sharon Laws updates us on the progress of the women’s team, this time with a huge win by Emma Pooley at the Tour of Ardeche! The Tour of Ardeche is one of my favourite stage races; it is held in a beautiful area of France, the weather is usually good and having done it 3 [...]
Rider diary: The temperature drops but the heart rate rises
Sharon Laws continues her diary entries, this time from the GP de Plouay-Bretagne in France. After the Sweden World Cup I spent three days back in Girona before getting on a plane again for a race in Belgium. Carla was particularly excited with her Cervélo S5 making its debut. It failed not to disappoint and [...]
Rider diary: Racing in the land of the vikings
Sharon Laws continues her diary of adventures with the women’s team, this time from the TTT World Cup in Sweden. With Thuringen completed we sent Emma home to Switzerland, to do some more baking as provisions were running low and Noemi, Trine, Iris and I headed for Sweden via Copenhagen. Lizzie headed back to Belgium [...]
Rider diary: Tired Legs and the infamous Hankaberg
Sharon Laws sent us another great diary entry, this time from the Thuringen Rundfahrt in Germany. Noemi Cantele, Lizzie Armistead, Trine Smidt, Iris Slappendal, Sharon Laws, Emma Pooley After an easy five days recovering from the Giro I was back on a plane again heading this time to Germany for the International Thuringen Rundfahrt. I [...]
Rider diary: Highs and lows of the Giro Donne
The longest and hardest stage race on the Women’s calendar is the ten-day Giro Donne. Second place on GC and a stage win for Emma Pooley made it a good result for our women’s team. Sharon Laws reflects on the biggest race of the women’s season. Iris Slappendal, Noemi Cantele, Sharon Laws, Lucy Martin, Jessie [...]
Rider diary: Giro Trentino
Sharon Laws wrote this diary entry about the Giro Trentino just before the start of the Giro Donne. Apples, Apples and more Apples. The Giro Trentino. One of Italy’s most famous wine regions but unfortunately we had to stick to the apples. The Giro Trentino was my first stage race in Italy last year and, [...]
Rider diary: Chasing the green machine in Spain
Sharon Laws of our women’s pro team checks in after tough racing in Spain. I’m wearily travelling back from northern Spain to Girona having just completed Iurreta Emakumeen Bira a 4 day, 5 stage, race and one day race – Durango Durango. Marianne Vos is on fire and won both Durango and Bira. It was [...]
Blog: Carla Ryan goes to California
Garmin-Cervélo’s women’s team member Carla Ryan recently ‘took one for the team’ by trading the harsh conditions of Northern Europe for the sun of Southern California to represent the team at the Cervélo Brain Bike Show. She sent in this dispatch: When I was asked whether Id like to go to California for 10days or [...]
A physio's diary: Consistent Aggression (Tour of Britain)
Team physiotherapist Toby Watson sent this dispatch from the recent Tour of Britain, despite few hours of sleep! I’m in Ipswich, southeast England, and have finally found time to get finger to keyboard (what is the modern equivalent of “pen to paper”?) to scribble (again – what’s the digital version of scribbling? – such important [...]
A physio's tale: You've ****** done it!
Stage 5 of the Eneco Tour had the race heading back into the bumpy territory that did so much damage on Stage 3, this time on similar roads to those used in the Amstel Gold spring classic. Svein was still in contention for a podium position on the over all, and the main role for [...]
A physio's tale: The final efforts
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!) We’re on the downhill slope for this race now, and the fatigue is starting to show. It’s [...]
A physio's tale: R&R for some
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!) After a single day of respite from the searing heat of the majority of this race, we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
