MissingSaddle » Christian Meier http://www.missingsaddle.com Cycling News From The Pros Tue, 14 May 2013 06:35:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Votla Algarve http://www.missingsaddle.com/2011/02/22/votla-algarve/ http://www.missingsaddle.com/2011/02/22/votla-algarve/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:22:51 +0000 Biking Brothers http://www.missingsaddle.com/2011/02/22/votla-algarve/ First European race of the season done. Volta Algarve is one of the traditional season openers for the euro season and this year was no exception drawing in a truly stellar field of sprinters and Tour contenders. It was the first euro race for United Healtcare as a team and even the first taste of the top level of racing for some of its riders. Overall the team fared well in what was a very difficult edition of the race, speeds were high over the very difficult terrain. For myself the race had its highs and lows, my legs felt like they were coming around and I spent the first day in the breakaway but some bad luck and crashes did not leave me to high in the classification.

A few notes-

-Boy earned us our first top 10 with 8th place in the sprint on stage 4.
-Learned that our Maxxis tires are prob the best tires in the rain in the whole peleton, I dropped my breakaway companions on nearly every descent.
-I like Nutella.

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Unitedhealtcare Pro Cycling just finished its first race of the season, Tour de San Luis in sunny Argentina. Over all it went quite well. The warm weather and great stages allowed us to get some of that race rhythm that is difficult to simulate in training. As always the first couple days you feel like you are missing that “souplesse” you remember from the end of the following season, when the pedals just seemed to turn themselves, but by the end you again feel like a racer rather than just a rider.

For myself the majority of the Tour was spent in the break aways, managing to get myself in there on four of the six road stages. Pressing on in each one to to push the body to newer thresholds and seeing where my limit was at for the early season.

The travel to argentina was adventure to say the least, travelling over 60 hours with my fellow team mate Andrew Pinfold. Lay overs, delays, cancelled flights, missing baggage but misery loves company, and we were able to really catch up after a few years since riding together on the former Symmetrics team.

Just as I am traveling back from Argentina my mind is already getting prepared for team training camp in California, only a week away now. From there its off to our European home in Girona for a solid spring schedule ahead of the team’s first major goal of the season, the Tour of California. I am looking forward to getting back to Spain, grabbing my fresh bread on the way home from each ride, catching up with friends and hopefully more sunny weather.

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  • RT @Meierwife: http://simplyrosie.ca/journal/?p=2107 what a treat to come back from a honeymoon and have a whole new batch of wedding photos #
  • heading out for a little spin this morning in Girona with Dom Rollin, info from Lombardia still on my Garmin, reset to a new season #
  • @camevans Le Crocodile eh? Lucky son of a gun.. #
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