312km with the neutral start to be exact. You might think that 7:30 hrs in the saddle might be boring, well, you would be right. Spending the night in Milan, well the outskirts anyway, fails to give you the sense of what is to come the following morning. A seven and a half hour race, [...]

A lot of people would assume that being an athlete the hardest thing we do is compete. But the truth is we live for competing and all the things it involves. Training is hard and races are even harder but when you push your body hard and it responds there is no better feeling in [...]

Its been a rough week leading up to Haut Var for me, nothing felt right on and off the bike, it just wasn’t clicking. Chalk it up to a thousand different things, maybe its just something you have to go through when you uproot your life and move to the other side of the world. [...]

With all the recent articles surrounding the Ricco case, Floyd Landis’ allegations and other negative press it is hard not to be discouraged. When I read this quote from Floyd Landis: ”If you want a role model look at your mum and dad and if you have bad parents find someone else. You won’t find it in [...]

Jelly Belly cyclists describe what they’re wearing during a cold and rainy stage of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California. Go to the Source – http://www.kielreijnen.missingsaddle.com/

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There was a break of 3 that went early and stayed away to the finish (1 fdj, 1 big mat, and 1 dalkia). They escaped after a flurry of attacks in the first 20km. We were very active in the attacks but with only 3 gone and major teams missing we felt comfortable to let [...]

Sorry about the delay on getting the last write up out, but after the race there is plenty to do. Packing bikes, eating, washing clothes, repacking bags and of course the closing ceremonies, but I am getting ahead of myself, first the final stage. The last day of this Tour was a particularly brutal one, [...]

You’ll never be able to guess what we woke up to this morning! Rain, again. This time it was light rain though and the outlook was much better for later in the stage. After a flurry of attacks a break of five went up the road. Unfortunately for us two of the five were a [...]

With yesterdays stage neutralized and cut short as a result of flash floods on the course the legs were a bit blocked up this morning and waking up to the. continuing hurricane was not a welcoming sight. The rains had persisted all night long and further flooding put today’s stage at risk of being canceled. [...]

Today’s stage again was shortened due to the flooding, however we were greeted at the starting line by a light drizzle rather than a torrential down pour. The first attack of the day seemed to satisfy the peleton and almost immediately we sat up. It was a very nervous few minutes for Team Jelly Belly [...]

A nearby hurricane that has been threatening the cities here on the island of Hainan and has already damaged hundreds of homes and towns, forced stage 4 to be shortened today to 100km. A bit of relief as yesterdays efforts took a bit of a toll. We woke at five this morning to thunder so [...]