February 2009
6 posts
Levi Leipheimer Wins the Tour of California (3 in...
Levi Leipheimer of Team Astana takes his third victory in the Amgen Tour of California in stride.
Helped by his powerful team including veteran Lance Armstrong, Leipheimer rode into Escondido maintaining his 36 lead over second place finisher David Zabriskie of Team Garmin. Michael Rogers of Team Columbia-Highroad finished decisively in third place.
This year’s race saw an...
Tour of California in Pasadena
Amgen Tour of California: Stage 5 Paso Robles and...
Finally the damn sun came out. Its been five long days of rainy bullshit, but the So Cal sun is here (at least figuratively).
Anyways, so more cool photos today.
Some asshole from Rabobank’s VIP booth messed up all of us Press people’s shots.
In awesome news, I saw Garrett from MASH.
For those that don’t know - the MASH gang are riding the entire 750 miles that the Tour...
Stage 2: Tour of California to Santa Cruz
More rain was really the point of today.
We (the state of California) really need this water. But out of all the possible times we could have a torrential downpour - couldn’t the weather have waited a week?
The going was pretty light today in comparison to the first day of racing in Santa Rosa.
The rain was on/off throughout the 115.9 miles covered today. Luckily the finish line was...
Stage 1 : Tour of California
It was miserably cold and rainy today across the 107 miles covered by the Peloton during Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California.
It was a great victory for Rock Racing’s star - Francisco Mancebo - who led the pack throughout the entire day.
In the women’s crit - which took place in downtown Santa Rosa - the winner was Emilia Fahlin from Sweden riding for Columbia-Highroad.
The...
