My Plaid Thermos: Landis interview, CX Worlds, Velonation and Boonen

My last interview with Floyd Landis caused quite an internet stir. It was poached by numerous media outlets and blogs (some giving me credit and others not) as well as appearing in forums from The Netherlands to Japan and back again. As I looked through the numerous posts some people doubted the validity of the [...]

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Floyd Landis: Living the dream behind the car wash

Since my last conversation with Floyd Landis his luck has turned around. With a record setting time trial victory in the Tour of the Bahamas, Landis has been offered a lucrative job. Not content with just working, Landis has also taken a group of young cyclists under his wing and is guiding them in the [...]

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Floyd Landis nails time trial at the Tour of Bahamas

If you read my previous post you know that Floyd Landis is participating in the Tour of the Bahamas this weekend. He just emailed me the hot news from day one of the race – the time trial. “All that drinking is starting to pay off. I beat the course record set by Zman [David [...]

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Floyd Landis: Rumors, Rock Racing and bowling

As the season approaches and teams are conducting training camps, Rock Racing has been surprisingly silent. No press releases of upcoming training camps or even a 2010  team roster. In 2009 Rock rode in a splashy kit proclaiming “Rocks not dead”. For 2010 team owner Michael Ball stated he was taking the team to the [...]

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Floyd Landis update

With all the hoopla around Floyd Landis, his move to Rock Racing, and his recent interview with a New Zealand newspaper, it seemed time for me to once again reach out and set the record straight. With two stages of the Powernet Tour of the Southland completed I asked Landis how the racing was going. [...]

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Floyd Landis called me an idiot

Just ran into Floyd and I continued our long running joke of him becoming a pirate. He said he put his pirate resume on Monster.com but with no luck. I suggested he try Craigslist. “You’re an idiot. I’ll try it.” What can I say, pros hate me.

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Floyd Landis in San Francisco-Friday!

WHAT: Tour de France winner, Floyd Landis, and sports trainer, Michael McCormack, introduce the CycleOps Club Pro 300PT, the only indoor cycle on the market to accurately measure training power workload as measured in watts. WHEN: Friday, March 30, 2007 Benefit Power Ride Challenge – 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Floyd Landis Q & A [...]

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I finally got a cover!

This is the cover. It will be cropped a little but you get the idea It’s been awhile since I blogged. I’ve had stuff to write about from the Tour of California, like Tim Johnson telling me how the Health Net squad and the Slipstream team got into a food fight. Johnson is great at [...]

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Shenanigans with Landis

We’re discussing the merits of piracy Frank Bellino / The Press-Enterprise Apparently my training paid off. I’ve just returned from the Floyd Landis PowerTap camp and I didn’t suffer as badly as I thought I would. I attended the Palomar Mountain ride, which means climbing to the top of the said mountain at an elevation [...]

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The seventh deadly sin

Sarah wins three golds just as she is on the cover of ROAD. Coincidence? I don’t think so… It was quite the busy week. There were the three days of track racing at the ADT velodrome and I had to continue training for my upcoming camp visits. You ask, “Why do you need to train [...]

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