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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …