United Nations of Awesome

Boombah!  Or, as we like to pretend that the Italians say, Opahhh! So the last post I put through (earlier today) was 16km from the finish, and included a series of “hopefullys” all of which came to pass, meaning we won today!  A great result for the team, and a super performance by the team. [...]

Read Full Post »

Double Figures

We’re now deep into the Giro, Day 10 in fact, and the cracks are starting to show!  Firstly, there was a horrific incident of five of the team’s staff getting on the wrong side of some VERY raw, yet delicious steak, which fortunately didn’t lead to a team-wide outbreak of GIT problems.  Thank goodness for [...]

Read Full Post »

4hr Race… 4sec Difference.

Days Four and Five Yesterday was the Teams Time Trial (TTT) a 33km shot through northern Italy where teams departed five minutes apart and raced the clock up the road. The order of starting was based on the overall standing of the best three riders from each team, with the slowest team going first, and [...]

Read Full Post »

The Giro: Good Times Bad Times

CIAO! The Giro d’Italia version 2010 has begun.  We started racing up in Amsterdam (which, while not technically* part of Italy, was a cool place to start racing from) with a time trial, followed by two road stages.  The start of a Grand Tour is always cool – the whole team starts to find extra [...]

Read Full Post »