As you can see, the rats have been giving me crap. I threatened to send them to Peru and they shut right up.
Been busy last couple of days sending out e-mails, contacting folks and thinking about 2009. I think I’ll be offering an electronic version for our yearly newsletter to help [...]

Here’s a picture of Jake off the front with 3 others at the Giro di Basilcata. We think he’s the 3rd one in the line.

Mel also mentioned to me that Jake I think won the latest came in 2nd in today’s stage! (Mel, could you confirm that this what you told me!)
Big [...]

Thanks to Mel Rathe!
From Ben Sharp- Stage 1, Italy.
Info should be at girodibasilicata.com. Our hotel doesn’t have internet so I’ll have to be brief.
Good racing today, 107km with 2 KOMs. At the start, Slovenia, Russia, Croatia, Japan, Bulgaria, Belarus and a host of Italian national teams, 110 riders in all.
The team was active [...]

Lots has been happening… Got a haircut. Makes me happy.

News
Hilary Billington is featured in the US Women’s Cycling Development Program diary on cyclingnews. Linky found on the Veloforma site.
Lyne has a chat with the Bissell boys including a little piece with Omer. She also has a post about the media Q&A [...]

Yeah yeah yeah. I’m due for an update. Today was a pretty busy day- taking care of paperwork and all.
News
Congrats to Sarah McCarthy, Poplollies who won the overall for the Norman Babcock Cat 4 Women’s Series by winning the Eugene Celebration! Congrats to her! Also a big congratulations to [...]

Looks like Tina was lucky enough to make it out there too!
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The Olympic Games. A big deal. Once every four years random little sports like the one I have such a good time partaking in get a chance to explode onto our World’s Grand Stage. But, in order to explode properly, you [...]

Well, there’s been a lot of racing in the last week or so… I’ve finally had time to sift through stuff and pull out the important bits.
Quick Race News
2009 Amgen Route Announced
Breckenridge 100
2 Evan Plews (Scottusa/Csc)
Gastown
Men
1 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
3 Zach Bell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
4 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe’s Pro Cycling
9 Chris [...]

Great job Jacob! We’re proud of you!
Report from Jacob Rathe
The big day finally arrived this past Sunday. The race started at 2:00 in the afternoon on what was truly an amazing course. 13.3 km in length, it started by twisting its way through downtown Cape Town, criterium style. We then shot up towards the [...]

Official start list
Stage 1 Results and Analysis

Velonews
Cyclingnews
Heidi already has her take up. Also check out her predictions.
Note: All links contain race results.
Predictions for final GC
Cadel Evans, Silence Lotto or
Kim Kirchen, Columbia

Sundays are always good for a soul crushing, march of destruction. One person in particular suffered this fate- Dave Aldersebaes conquered today’s Elkhorn stage all by himself from mile 17 to mile 106. He didn’t give up when he could have taken the easy way out. We cheered for him as he [...]