The Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders), Sunday April 3, 2011

Warning: Cycle Crazy Week Ahead! A high of 13 degrees Celsius with showers in the morning becoming cloudy in the afternoon. That’s the forecast for Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) on the ProTour circuit. One of the five so called “monuments” in the sport, this 95th edition of the race will see many [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/the-ronde-van-vlaanderen-tour-of-flanders-sunday-april-3-2011/

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Fartlek Sprinting Intervals

Fartlek Sprinting intervals is an unstructured interval session which basically involves riding along and doing some short, sharp intervals at appropriate time periods. The main idea is to try and make really hard intervals a little more interesting and fun. Fartlek was developed in Sweden and simply means ‘speed play’. It was used by the [...]

Source: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/5959/training/fartlek-sprinting-intervals/

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Tribute to Wouter Weylandt (#108), 1984-2011

I’m sure many of you have heard the news regarding the tragic death of Wouter Weylandt of Leopard-Trek last week during the third stage of the Giro d?Italia, after he crashed during a mountain descent. The funeral was this week. This horribly sad event has really given me pause, but also a deeper understanding and [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tribute-to-wouter-weylandt-108-1984-2011/

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Freeplay Article.

  This article says it all. Well, maybe not it all, but it sure says a lot.  A whole lot. Not only did I have so much fun with the folks from Freeplay Magazine as we cruised the rustic town of Petaluma, but the Sorella Hair and Fashion Boutique gave me the princess treatment too!  It isn’t every day that a bike racer gets to do this… and I might have ended up with some new additions to my wardrobe, that definitely compliment my RoadID! Did I mention my favorite...

Source: http://alisonstarnes.com/freeplay-article/

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Tour de France, Stage 2- How Do They Do That?

55,645 Kilometers Per Hour! That?s 34.6 miles an hour. That?s the AVERAGE speed of Garmin-Cervélo in the short 23-kilometer (14.3 mile) Team Time Trial contested on the streets of Les Essarts, France on Sunday. Team RadioShack, just 10 seconds back, were close to that speed as well. Given the perfect convergence of a bunch of [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tour-de-france-stage-2-how-do-they-do-that/

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Tour de France 2011, Stage 1 Report

And so it begins, the 98th edition of the greatest show in cycling, a 3,436-km (2135+ mile), 21-stage professional cycling race consuming almost the entire month of July as well as most of the geography of France. That distance is the span from New York to California. The claim is that it is the largest [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tour-de-france-2011-stage-1-report/

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Official Team Radioshack Roster for Tour de France 2011

Team Radioshack has just announced their line-up for Tour de France 2011. Jani Brajkovic Chris Horner Markel Irizar Andreas Klöden Levi Leipheimer Dmitriy Muravyev Sérgio Paulinho Yaroslav Popovych Haimar Zubeldia Team Sports Manager Johan Bruyneel, together with Team Directors Dirk Demol and Alain Gallopin will direct the team. ?It was hard to make the selection [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/official-team-radioshack-roster-for-tour-de-france-2011/

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