Journal of professional cyclists Ian MacGregor and Timmy Duggan

Epicurious.com looks at my diet

Check out my interview and article with food website, Epicurious.com, about what makes up the diet of an athlete.

Garmin-Slipstream movie on the Sundance Channel

The past couple seasons my Garmin-Slipstream teammates and I have had a camera crew following us around at various races, camps, and events.  The result of this filiming is a documentary called Blood, Sweat, and Gears produced by the Sundance Channel.  Dont miss the premier on monday, June 29th at 10:30 PM.  But if you do it will be showing more throughout July.  Check it out for a good look at the inside of a pro cycling team.  ITs a lot funnier than you’d think too.

Chill Time

After the Dauphine it was really nice to have a little down time with Loren and Karli.  After only seeing them for 4 weeks total all season so far it was nice to be just the two (or 3) of us again. We hung out in a little village in the alps for a few days and just enjoyed the quiet and coolness.  Nice to get out of the heat and the noise of Europe in the summer!  Back in Girona for a bit more recovery and then Ive started getting it going again for the upcoming Tour of Austria in a couple weeks.  I hope to carry some good form over from the Dauphine and get a win this time around.  I really made some breakthroughs last week at the Dauphine getting some of my automatic thought processes back during the intense moments of the race that Ive been struggling with.  I cant wait to apply them next week and Austria and see what happens!   Thanks for checking in 

Tour de Winghaven

I was scheduled to be in St. Louis today for the tour of winghaven. After getting in the mike horgan hill climb at 8am yesterday and then rushing home to shower and pack, I drove to DIA only find the flight to st. louis canceled. An hour and a half of crazy ideas with the ticket counter trying anything and everything to get to st. louis in time for today 2pm start led to nothing. So back home I went. Mike Creed was in the same boat with his flight from DIA to St. Loius. It sucks to miss out on a race especally after already having driven to the airport, hopefully the type 1 guys will be alright today with two riders missing.

Unlucky Fabio

My poor Team Type 1 teammate Fabio Calabria has had a bad week! He was taken out on the bike path in Philly the day before the race. Upon returning to Colorado a MRI showed the he had broken his scaphoid. Minimum six weeks in a full arm cast. Obviously he hasn’t been putting in much time on the bike with only a few 3o min trainer sessions in the garage. Yet somehow he managed to get a pretty bad saddle sore. For anyone who doesn’t know what a ’saddle sore’ is, picture on your underside where you body contacts the seat and gets hours and hours of friction. Not a pleasant thing! So Fabs gets to the point where he figures he needs to go get it lanced off. Upon inpection at the hospital they freak out, and rush him off to the OR. Apparently it was way beyond a simple slice and drain procedure. His infection had started to spead and now had become a serious health risk. Poor guy now has three days in the hospital on IV antibiotics…pretty bad week, eh!

Au revoir Beauce

Another year of hard racing; up and down big rollers, on slow bumpy roads. Team Type 1 had a solid week. I’d say the same for myself. We really hug it all out there, risking loosing a couple top 5’s in the overall for the win. I had to dig pretty deep a few days to get the job done and was pretty roasted by the end of the week. Back home in Golden with a few easy days to hopefully recover and bump the form up a notch.

Dauphine Photos

  To the wire….      

So close at the Dauphine Libere

Nothing inspires the will to win inside me like my second place   finish by a wheel in the Dauphine Libere  yesterday.  It was a bittersweet moment for sure. On one hand it feels so good to finally be at the point   where I could win on the ProTour  level after fighting so hard this past year  recovering from my traumatic brain injury.    But man it really  sucks crossing the finish line with a guy half a meter in front
with his hands in the air. I’m losing a few nights sleep with that image in my head for sure.  Trying not to think about it to much other than letting it feed the fire. To keep it in perspective, I was lucky to have my wife Loren and my  dog at the finish line, watching their first ever European pro bike race in person.  Might have to bring em along more often in the future for good luck. And after the  week of solid teamwork of  each of  my Garmin teammates, I was really inspired in the race today.
I can definitely assure you that after some long months of  struggling to just fill in the pack, my  internal fire is lit up
again and I remember what it feels like to be in it for the win.
Thanks for all the support, and if anyones looking for me ill be out on the road working on my sprint.

Bored in Beauce

I flew into Quebec city last night, a full day ahead of the rest of my team. With nothing to do and nowhere to go I’ve had a full 30hrs of being alone. Eating alone in restaurants, reading and scariest of all - I made a facebook account! Now, I have to explain a bit; I was the guy that made fun of everyone’s facebook accounts. Laughing at the time they wasted on it, and about how they were acting like a bunch of pre-teens. So I guess now I must eat my humble pie, and say you all were right, and I was wrong! I finally caved in when I realized that it really would help me contact some people I had lost touch with. I’m now finding out what happened to all my ski racing buddies from 10 years ago. Now I’ve got one more mind numbing thing to do when sitting endlessly in hotel rooms…

Tour de Beauce starts tomorrow. I can’t wait for it, I’ll try to keep the website updated as the race progresses.

Coffee’s Here

Just got a fresh batch of coffee. We’ve got both a medium roast and a dark roast. The coffee is at its peak for the next two weeks - if you have never had truly fresh coffee now’s your chance! We never sell ours past 6 weeks, compare that with the grocery store or starbucks where you could be buying 6 month old beans!