Cute fuzzy bears and make-believe root beer floats
It hurts when I rest. It hurts when I walk. It hurts when I ride. It really hurts when I get massage. It hurts when I think. It is the singular word identifying my legs. Oh lordy, the pain! As I write this, I’m 3\4 watching a program about polar bears, and 1\4 getting a [...]
Tour of Limousin stage 1: Maaskant 10th on stage
Competing in his first stage race since surviving the Tour de France, Martijn Maaskant is back on form and finished 10th in the opening stage of the 41st Tour du Limousin in France. He finished just 3″ behind stage winner Nicolas Roche in the front chase group. Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O Stage Results 1. Nicolas Roche [...]
Tour de France stage 13: Narbonne>Nîmes with Hesjedal
Location:Aude & Gard, France Overview:Team Garmin-Chipotle riders are recording the stages of the 2008 Tour de France with their Garmin Edge 705s for all you data hungry fans out there. Each day we will feature one rider and his data. Stage 13 is yet another transition stage as the Tour heads west towards Italy and [...]
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, we [...]
Tour de France stage 2: Auray>Saint-Brieuc with Maaskant
Location:Brittany, France Overview:Team Garmin-Chipotle riders are recording the stages of the 2008 Tour de France with their Garmin Edge 705s for you data hungry fans out there. Each day, we will feature one rider and his data. At 164.5 km, stage 2 is one of the shorter road stages. It is flat to rolling as [...]
Injured Reserves Report: Good start, knock wood
I arrived two days before the start to find that management had selected nine riders who showed up for the season’s premiere race (yes, the Tour) with only one minor issue among them. Martijn Maskaant had a “tickle” in his throat and that was it. 48 hours and several doses of Emergen-C later, even that [...]
Avid Argyle June: Meeting Farrar like meeting President
Martijn Maaskant (left) and Tyler Farrar (right) take a moment to pose with Alison before the start of the CSC Invitational. By Alison Moore, winner of the June Avid Argyle essay contest I am relatively new to following professional cycling but my dad travels from Atlanta, Georgia to California each year to volunteer at the [...]
Can't wait to get to Brest!
I’m really excited to be on the Tour de France team! Now I can’t wait till we get to Brest for Le Grand Depart! It’s going be my first Grand Tour and the longest race I have ever done. I don’t really know what to expect. But I’m ready to learn from all the guys [...]
Dominating the Delta
I had awesome legs today. We were actually working for Martijn. We led out the first sprint for the bonus seconds and Martijn was on my wheel. Maggy hit out first, then I kicked with 250 meters to go. I opened up a gap on Credit Agricole and won the sprint. I knew then we [...]
My home-town advantage
It’s really nice to do some races in my home country, especially around here for the Delta Tour. This is near the area where I grew up and used to train. So I know the roads and there is a lot of support from the Dutchies! Today is the last day of this short stage [...]
Dunkerque Done! Martijn 8th in final sprint!
Today’s stage was tailored made for the sprinters. Short and to the point. This stage was a welcome change from the 190 km stages of a few days ago. Martijn and Mike were our designated leaders for the day. Once the pace picked up with 5 laps to go of the 6.5k circuit, the rest [...]
Amstel Gold: Legs of Lead
Amstel Gold: The day dawned sunny after a night of unpromising rain. A nice change for this part of Europe. Of course after Martijn’s fantastic cobble race and with Maastricht being his home town, it was an agreeable idea to do everything we could for him today. He was well placed in the front with [...]
My personal 'Hell of the North' nightmare
After having a bit of time with my family and time to reflect over last Sunday’s happenings, I have come up with this. So I worked my backside off to get from a heap on the tarmac in Qatar to the hardest one day race in the world and be competitive there. With all the [...]
Martijn Maaskant's Roubaix Power Data
Check out the Saris power file of Martijn’s impressive performance at Roubaix. Young Martijn put in 6006 kj of total work in 6:05’56″ in the saddle over 256.39 km. Not bad for a debut ride!
Amstel Gold postage stamp racing
Riders sometimes say the Amstel Gold is a race on a postage stamp. The area where the riders race is so small that they pass the same point on the road sometimes three times. Here is the actual course. You can see how they use different colors to better indicate where the course goes. It [...]
Cyclingnews.com: Sleepy Martijn rocks to 4th in Roubaix
Cyclingnews.com profiles “Sleepy Martijn” on his brilliant 4th place finish in his first Paris-Roubaix and his plans for the rest of the Spring Classics. From the article: Next week the Dutch young man will enjoy a home race, with the Amstel Gold Race featuring as next Spring Classic. “I’m very happy with my fourth place [...]
Velonews.com: Maaskant 4th in Roubaix
Velonews.com profiles Dutch prodigy Martijn Maaskant, the unexpected 4th place finisher of the 2008 Paris-Roubaix. “It was very difficult; a very hard race,” said Maaskant, who is Dutch, but lives in Belgium. “When Boonen attacked that was the hardest part of the race for me.”
Injured Reserves: Tour of Flanders
24 hours have passed now since the Tour of Flanders and I’m really happy (and significantly relieved) that no one was seriously hurt. Mike Friedman crashed at a really bad time, banging himself up a bit. Though he wrecked his chances of a good showing more than his rugged Meatball body. Despite the epic weather [...]
Flanders First: Maaskant finishes 12th in debut!
Race report direct from DS Johnny Weltz “The race turned out to be just as hard as expected. We really wanted a group to go from the start. We tried hard to make it happen, but a strong tailwind made the pace too fast for anyone to go.” “As we got close to first feed [...]
Cozza's death-defying De Panne
Today’s stage 1 at De Panne was both good and bad for our classics crew. For the first three quarters of the stage, it was fairly mellow. One single rider went off the front and gained up to ten minutes at one point. Then we approached the first of two 38 km finishing circuits with the [...]
Slipstream Sports LLC announces Team Slipstream/Chipotle 2008 roster; Chipotle increases sponsorship, signs on as presenting sponsor
Slipstream Continues Mission to Promote Ethical Sporting and Invites Fans To “Get In The Slipstream” with a Contest to Design the Official 2008 Team Jersey August 31, 2007 – Boulder, CO – Boulder, CO – August 31, 2006 – Slipstream Sports LLC and its chief venture, the Slipstream/Chipotle Professional Cycling Team, is poised for a [...]
