This past weekend was my first real classics races. Het Volk didn’t go super for me. I crashed with about 120km in, about 20km to the real bulk of the climbs. I got a spare bike but we were team car 26 so it took forever. I chased back through the caravan and was ALMOST [...]
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A day to relax
February 20, 2010
Finally after 2 weeks of racing, we get a day to relax at the Shangri-La in Oman. We have a 330am departure for flights from muskat to doha to parus then driving to belgium. Ill be staying in gent for the time being with my friend tyler farrar. Het volk is up next weekend. Time [...]
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The days keep ticking by.
February 18, 2010
Yesterday we took a 35 minute plane ride to get to the start. It took us an hour to get to the airport with police escort. We went through some gridlock traffic so that was cool. Then once we landed in wherever we flew to we got to drive another 2 hours. Seemed sorta pointless [...]
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Oman stage 1
February 15, 2010
The first ever Tour of Oman started with a 60km crit at night. It sorta reminded me of twilight but not quite as cool. It was still pretty cool but also quite dangerous. Along most of the hot dog(out and back) course there were no barriers, so spectators were literally right on top of the [...]
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Qatar yesterday, Oman today
February 13, 2010
We finished up Qatar yesterday keeping Marcus in 5th overall. I managed 10th on the day with a late run to the line. I was fast but I was just too far back. I gotta work on that. Now we’re in Oman and we are staying at a sweet resort hotel on the beach. it [...]
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Stage 4
February 11, 2010
So the wind has been non existent the last couple days. Our plan worked perfect and Kohler made the break from kilometer 0. The 3 man break lasted 130km before getting sucked back into the group. We made it to the finish with little drama. Another crash right in front of me limited my sprint, [...]
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Stage 3
February 9, 2010
This one wasn’t too dramatic. One section of cross wind that was hard but no major separation. It came together for a bunch kick. Boonen won. I was top 15 I think. I waited too long to get to the front. There was a nasty crash right next to me at the finish. Thankfully all [...]
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Stage 2
February 8, 2010
This report is gonna be short and sweet. I’m not stoked about today. We went slow the first hour. Then hit the first cross wind section and it all blew apart. I was in the front echelon with maybe 30. Then I punctured out of it. Then 3 groups passed before I got a wheel. [...]
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Stage 1- TTT
February 8, 2010
The 2010 Tour of Qatar kicked off with a 8.2 km TTT. I got the sweet position in the line-up to follow Ballan, which made for a hard battle when he was taking the lions share of the pulls. Everytime he pulled I just hoped I’d be able to still take mine! In the end [...]
