Epic Stage 3 in Austria

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in News | 3 Comments »

That was a big day. One of my biggest of the year power output wise.  It started off full gas on the first short climb, where the field split over the top. In the valley on the other side I ...

Epic stage in Austria

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

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Tour of Austria stage 2

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

Todays stage was an important GC deciding stage finishing on top of Kitzbuhel horn. It was a really hard climb, finishing on grades of 22 percent.  Not sure what is harder, racing up it or ski racing down Kitzbuhels infamous ...

Tour of Austria stage 1

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

Today we thankfully avoided the rain all day while my teammate, svein tuft, who just re-upped his Canadian national tt championship last week, took off the front with one other for a 100km time  trial, but we caught them with ...

4th of july from the tour of Austria

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in News | 3 Comments »

Since I'm  starting the tour of austria tomorrow we figured we'd "throw another shrimp on the barbie" in celebration of the 4th of july.  It was good to get some good ol American hamburger, potato salad and watermelon in me ...