Tour of California

Stage 8: Tour of California: Rancho Bernardo to Escondido (click pictures to enlarge)







Saxo Bank













EPO smoothies?















Mavic mutual support vehicals












On the way to TOC















Lance's one off Trek TTX












Lance's Stolen (then found) TTX












OUCH Kredo Ultras













About as close as I could get to the Astana bus. Complete chaos for Lance and Levi.














Certaintly not "squoval tubing"













Rabobank rode some crazy square tubed Giants














New DA
























Garmin Slipstream Felts













Cervelo TestTeam's camp was about a quarter mile away from the team parking lot (all the madness). Above Thor Hushovd and Carlos Sastre (not pictured) on their way to fly back to Europe for some R&R as the CTT car pulls away for the start line. Carlos said he will rest up and ride a couple spring classics to gear up for the Giro.









Phil White












Cervelo TestTeam heads down to the starting line









Christian Vandvelde interviews with VS












Big George making his way through the media towards the Columbia Highroad team bus.





























Rock Racing camp

Endure It! Club Input Needed

Now that the Endure It! Club is in it's third year, we are looking forward to growing the club to new and exciting heights. In order to accomplish this goal, we are looking for input from the members with regards to what you want your club to be. Below is a questionnaire that focuses on the Endure It! Club and ideas for the future. Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete the questionnaire and email it back to EndureItClub@gmail.com by Saturday, February 21st. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Click here for the questionaire.

We will be utilizing the March meeting to go over the ideas gathered and to kick off some the ideas that have been suggested.

March Club Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 11th at 7:00 PM
Topic: The Who, What, When and Why of the Endure It! Club. Ideas, discussion and events for the 2009 Season.

Thanks for you time and we look forward to an exciting year,

Chad Beert, Jill Bonniwell, Todd Byers, Katie Dumford and Doug Gibson

Club Meeting - Celebrity Bikes - Time Trial Info

February 15th 2-Person 20 Mile Team Time Trial
This Sunday is the 3rd race in the Endure It! Indoor Time Trial Series. This time around the course is 20 miles with rolling hills. For details click the link on the sidebar or email Dan@endureitsports.com

Carlos Sastre
Some of us here at Endure It! had the opportunity to ride with some pro tour guys from the Cervelo TestTeam. They were Serge Pawels and a fella you might have heard of... a one Carlos Sastre (2008 Tour de France Champion). Video is in the previous post. If you listen closely you'll hear a Lance at the Giro d'Italia prediction.

Wednesday Night Club Meeting 2/11
Club members - Wednesday’s featured guest speaker will be Monique Ryan. Last year Monique focused on race nutrition, hydration, calorie consumption ect. This time she will speak on improving body composition for the endurance athlete. If you missed her last time, be sure to make it out this time and improve your body composition with some some free snacks, free beer, and free nutrition expertise from one the the leading nutritionists in the field.

Cervelo S3 Olympic Edition & Carlos Sastre Edition

Morning Ride With Carlos Sastre

Video: Some of us here at Endure It! asked Carlos at dinner if he wanted to get in a morning ride before breakfast. The AM ride wasn't exactly on the Brainbike 2009 schedule, but Carlos is a super nice guy, he was all about it!

Every year Cervelo hosts a Brainbike event to which they invite their dealers to attend. This is a conference where the guys behind the scenes at cervelo further educate their dealers in such areas as aerodynamics, fit, comfort, engineering, ect. Last year Brainbike was held at the low speed wind tunnel in San Diego, CA. For 2009 the locale was not quite as exotic, or warm for that matter. Drew and I made the 4 mile trek (our trek had nothing to do with Astana or doping) to the Lisle Hilton for two days of Cervelo focus.

They had quite the impressive staff on hand including Phil White (founder), team mechanics, inside and outside sales reps, engineers, and a couple of guys you may have heard of Jean Paul van Poppel (9 time Tour de France stage winner, current TestTeam director), up and comer Serge Pauwels (2007 Tour Down Under KOM winner), and Carlos Sastre, whose accolades are too long to list. You may know him as the 2008 Tour de France winner.

This was no ordinary conference, and they don't just make ordinary bikes. Cervelo is the most innovate bike company out there. They are the largest time-trial machine manufacturer in the world. Cervelo was bike supplier for Team CSC since 2003. In 2009 Cervelo will have it's own pro tour team, Cervelo TestTeam.

Within the last year alone Cervelo riders have won the overall classification at the Tour de France (Carlos Sastre in video above), 10 medals at the Bejing Olympics (3 gold), the Ironman World Championship, won best pro tour team title, and won several Ironman and Ironman 70.3 victories. Want one? The 2009 models are rolling (not literally) into Endure It! as you read.

In case you were wondering Cervelo originates from the Italian word for brain (cervello) and the French word for bike (velo). Hence: brainbike

16.08 Individual TT Results