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Bookwalter crushes for 2nd and Cadel 3rd in first stage of Giro!

May 8, 2010

I cruised in for 28th, 20 seconds down. I had what we say, good sensations. Just obvisouly a little bit short… Brent had an amazing ride just 2 seconds of the pink!!! Cadel wasn’t even a second behind him. It was a generally damp day, with light rain off and on all day. I was [...]

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Giro- One week away

May 1, 2010

The Giro is one week away. My first grand tour. I did a good 5hr ride today up some climbs and I’m actually feeling good. So I got that going for me, which is nice… On another front, I’m a bit sad that I have a brand new bag of my own personal blend coffee, [...]

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Lucca Mornings

April 29, 2010

Another morning here in Lucca getting ready for the day. What’s on the plan today? 4 hrs in the mountains. Should be fun. It’s actually been really good being here the last few days, Reseting the body from racing and actually getting out for some training rides. It’s crazy when you start racing in February [...]

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Some Giro trainin' in Lucca Italy

April 25, 2010

Sitting here in my hotel inside the famed wall of lucca, I’m getting my mind wrapped around the idea of my first grand tour in less than 2 weeks. From Qatar to roubaix to Italy… it’s been a solid campaign so far this year. I will admit my legs are feeling all the racing. So [...]

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Trentino

April 19, 2010

Giro Del Trentino- First of all its not easy to get to Itay from belgium right now cause all flights are pretty much cancelled. Been driving most of the day today and yesterday to get there. So the race better go well after all of this. There are some big climbs here so I’m hoping [...]

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Groene Hart 1.1(Green Heart)-Holland

March 22, 2010

Groene Hart aka Green heart was another race in Holland summed up like most of them are, Heavy Wind. So we were fighting for the first 50km to stay at the front of the group when the echelons split it all up. Unfortunately at the very moment the group split, we had no rider in [...]

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Nokere finish Video

March 19, 2010
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6th at Nokere Koerse 1.1

March 17, 2010

To celebrate St. Patty’s day I wanted to have a good showing today at Nokere. I thought maybe I was gonna have a shot at the win! With 350 meters to go on the cobblestone finish climb, I connected with Alexander Kristoff and he drove it hard up the base of the climb. With about [...]

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Off and running.

March 8, 2010

So my spring campaign in Belgium has begun and I can officially say it hasn’t been the smoothest start. I came down with a cold right before 3 days west flanders. Got through the first two cold days ok, but when I woke on sunday I could barely breath. I didn’t start and spend the [...]

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Podium Insight

March 3, 2010

http://www.podiuminsight.com/2010/02/10/its-go-time-for-john-murphy/