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• Stage 16 – You Call Yourself a Sprinter? The Irony of Tour de France Sprinters
  July 21st, 2010
  

  “Hey man, you a sprinter or a climber?” “Oh yeah, dude, I’m totally a sprinter. I got these huge hulking sprinter muscles that are just too big to haul over [...]

• Stage 15 – It’s All About Celebrating All the Small Victories In Between
  July 19th, 2010
  

  “You don’t have rooms??” “You have not reserved hotel?” “You have no where to stay?? IN THE PYRENEES?????” In many accents, said in many different ways, I was told not [...]

• Stage 15: Inside the VIP Village
  July 19th, 2010
  

  Two weeks into the Tour de France, and today was the first day I’d indulged the fruits of the VIP Village. Full of food, snacks, news, chill areas and places [...]

• Stage 14: In With The Crazies
  July 19th, 2010
  

  It’s easy to criticize a bike race and it’s players from afar – he should have done this, he should have done that, how could he X, Y, and Z, [...]

• Stage 13 – Through the Valleys of Hell, to the Meadows of Sun(flowers)
  July 19th, 2010
  

  The bounty is always sweeter when you’ve had to go through hell to get it. This is one of the reasons Le Tour is the revered bike race it is [...]

• Rest, Celebrations, and the World Cup
  July 14th, 2010
  

  MORZINE, FRANCE – The Tour pace is go-go-go – wake up early, push through traffic to get to the start, scramble to the start, rush to either the finish or [...]

• How to Give a Good Speech and Stay Classy When You’ve Had a Bad, Bad Day
  July 11th, 2010
  

  Today, Stage 8 of Le Tour de France (Station des Rousses to Morzine-Avioriaz) was a rough day for Lance Armstrong – a couple of crashes and lost time. I admired [...]

• I Still Don’t Speak French, But I Know You Speak English
  July 9th, 2010
  

  Today was a day of liberation, of pushing through mental and physical crashes to live another day, to pick yourself up and start fresh all over again. And again and [...]

• Stage 0, Stage 1: Attitude IS Everything
  July 5th, 2010
  

  The Race Inside Who wants to run around like a chicken with their head cut off in a country where you don’t speak the language, having no concrete details organized, [...]

• Joanne Kiesanowski (TIBCO) On How To Follow Your Dreams
  June 20th, 2009
  

  By Cynthia Lou Joanne Kiesanowski of Team TIBCO, fresh off two trips to the podium at this year’s Nature Valley Grand Prix, one for second place at the St. Paul [...]

• Giro d’Italia – Trying To Drive Through The Breakaway In A Car
  May 30th, 2009
  

  Driving THROUGH the Peloton On a Descent to the Breakaway. Giro d’Italia 2009 Stage 15. Very cool vantage point. If not a little nerve racking.

• Driving Up To The Peloton: 2009 Giro d’Italia
  May 29th, 2009
  

  have you ever wondered what it looks like to be in a team car and get the call to the peloton to deliver some bottles? Well her is our very [...]

• The Scoop With Lou – Giro TT In Car Gallery
  May 24th, 2009
  

  After throwing some elbows and asserting myself (read: begging day after day, thank you Phillipe!!) I got myself a ride on the Time Trial course with Astana’s Phillipe Maertens following [...]

• Top 6 Obvious, and Top 10 Not-So-Obvious Things To Remember For Your Race Prep
  May 23rd, 2009
  

  Written by: Cynthia Lou There are the obvious things to pack and prepare for a race – bike, kit – and then there are some of the less obvious items, [...]

• Cynthia Lou Hanging With The Astana Mechanics
  May 23rd, 2009
  

  Our very own Cynthia Lou “The Scoop With Lou” had the opportunity to hang with the Astana mechanics as they ready the bikes for the Giro’s TT. She shows them [...]