Garmin team camp day 3…
Ouuff. So lets start with the same old, breakfast followed by a 3h beautiful ride in the mountains. Then came the afternoon meetings to discuss racing schedules for next year as well as a meeting with our finance people as well as a meeting with Prentice, our team doctor. Schedule looks good for next year, starting with Tour Down Under followed by some solid races, including the Ardennes Classics among some other big time races, which should make for a fun year. Fast forward the more interesting part of the evening, the team got invite ted for a tour/tasting at the Avery Brewing Company here in Boulder which quickly turned into an initiation ceremony for all the new people to the team, both staff and riders. The story was this, five glasses of beer and the last to down them all of each heat, staff first then riders, was to do a lap of the parking lot sans clothes, haha. First heat was lost by Matt our resident chiro extraordinaire and then came the riders heat, hotly contested by myself, Svein, Hans Decker, Ricardo Vander Velde, and Bradley Wiggins. I was quite nervous coming into the comp but think Svein and I would have made the old Symtrex boys proud as I won followed closely by Svein, both Ricardo and Bradley struggled Brad eventually being the naked man out. All in good fun, but not really having anything to eat since lunch made for some lightheadedness pretty quickly, but hey the once a year we are all able to get together why not a bit of fun and as our director Whitey said “boys this week have fun, enjoy yourselves cause some next week it’s all business and back to winning bike races”.
hah sounds like a ball! you guys are lucky to have such a gig, but you both deserve it.
That’s awesome! I hope you all have a great week!