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Race Report: Tour de San Luis: Stage 6 – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
I knew that waking up at 1am coughing and feeling hot wasn’t quite the best start to the Queen Stage. I started pounding down some vitamin C in hopes that I would put a stop to it early. Waking up in the morning though I knew I was in for a tough day as I …
Race Report: Tour de San Luis: Stage 5 – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
Well its never a dull moment down here at this race, I don’t know why we would expect it to be somewhat straight forward because it never is. Today started out with a nice two hour transfer to the start of the stage. I haven’t been sleeping much the last couple nights so I opted …
Race Report: Tour de San Luis: Stage 4 – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
Today was the first mountain top finish and from what I found when I asked around it was a pretty descent climb. When they have to make the road with concrete slabs that usually means its a bit steep. The stage on paper was 140 km and we started climbing at around 110. The game …
Race Report: Tour de San Luis: Stage 3 – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
I was pretty excited going into todays stage. We previewed the last part of the stage earlier this week and it looked like a bit of a good time. It was a shorter stage around 130 km and there was a cat 2 climb at the end which was about 6 km long then a …
Race Report: Tour de San Luis: Stage 2 – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
So, I looked over the stages when I was at home and stage 2 looked to be pretty easy and in my mind a pretty mellow day. But in cycling, things usually go not as planned. On paper the stage was basically flat with a slight climb in the beginning and then mainly slight down …
Race Report: Tour de San Luis Stage 1: TTT – By Jon Hornbeck, Holowesko | Citadel
Stage 1 is finally here. I found out I was doing San Luis maybe 7 weeks or so, and the last 6 weeks I’ve been trying my best to be a good little cyclist with my training, etc, etc. So the 6 weeks go by and it’s time to travel. The travel to come down …