Garmin team camp day 1…
We arrived last night to beautiful weather here in Boulder and were even more pleasantly surprised by the sunshine and balmy weather we had today. The morning started with some breakfast followed by a short talk from Jonathan Vaughters and how this year the team had well passed all expectations and that it is now time to follow up and even improve on this past season’s performances. From there we all piled into team vans and headed out for a few friendly games of paintball, having never paint-balled before I was pretty excited and we definitely had a good time. Award for “crazy of the day” definitely went to Cozza who decided to play with no shirt on, mix that with paintballs travelling at 400 feet per second at close range and you get Steve welted and bleeding, hahaha. The soingeurs had some lunch for us there before traveling back, a quick change for Svein and I before heading down to meet the boys at Retul for a full on bike fit. This was by far the coolest bike fit I have ever gotten done and their system is really impressive as they place little transmitters on all your major joints and actually have your stick figure pedaling on a big screen. From there with the help of a physio we quickly found that I had a functionally shorter left left, which was twisting my pelvis and forcing me to sit well off the center of my saddle. Between the physio giving me some stretches and strengthening exercises for my hamstring and pelvis and a some shims under my left cleat, they soon had me sitting straight as an arrow, cool stuff. Made it back in time for a quick shower and a phone call to Amber before heading out for a big team dinner at a local Mexican joint. Busy day, 6 to go.
Sounds like fun times. Did any of your new teammates have to change the tires on the team van? I’m guessing that stuff is taken care of. Enjoy the sunshine, remember what you’ll be coming home to!
Sounds like a sweet camp and big Congrats on the NB award.
cool about retul. im going to get a fit myself soon, so excited to hear that you though it was worthwhile
if you need more wedges let us know. we could even get them to you sometime at the track.
How do you get this far into your cycling career without a proper bike fit? Shouldn’t someone have picked up your leg length and positioning issues by now?
congrats on a great tenure at Symmetrics, and good luck at Garmin.
Ha ha not quite. We just sat behind the young man and said, “yeah he’s twisty but he goes alright”
Jake