Labor Day weekend didn’t consist of burgers, brats and relaxation for Team Type 1 Triathlete Ryan Jones, but rather nearly 73 miles of running in 11 hours and 44 minutes in a winning effort in the “Labor Pain” 12 Hour Endurance Run.
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Thomas Rabou left his home in the small town of Loosbroek in the Netherlands for a long awaited opportunity to compete in the United States of America. The Dutchman got his start in professional cycling with the Marco Polo Cycling Team and developed into a promising young road cyclist with his country’s esteemed Rabobank Continental outfit during a three-year term that ended in 2009. This year, he is racing for the US-based continental Team Type 1, and he has lifted the squad to podium success at the Amgen Tour of California where he won the King of the Mountain (KOM) jersey. He hopes to continue to lead the domestic squad toward its ambition of upgrading to professional continental status with the International Cycling Union (UCI) in 2011.
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Team Type 1 joins team endocrinologist, Dr. Bill Russell, and the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet team at Vanderbilt to promote diabetes antibody screenings.
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Team Type 1, a cycling group started in 2005, defies the myths about the disease that affects 24 million Americans. The No.1 myth is this: You can’t be a competitive athlete with diabetes.
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Rubens Bertogliati becomes the first Swiss rider to join the world's only professional cycling team with riders who have Type 1 diabetes. Bertogliati is best known for his win in Stage 1 of the 2002 Tour de France, where he attacked in the final kilometer and narrowly held off the charging pack in Luxembourg. The victory earned him the race lead and the coveted maillot jaune for two days.
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In his new role Rose will work to expand the team’s sponsor and fan base in Europe. He is a cyclist on Team Type 1’s elite team and is currently living in France where he is enrolled at INSEAD - The Business School for the World®.
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Team Type 1 will field six professional cyclists, all with type 1 diabetes in the Tour of Rwanda on November 15th for a six-day stage race. Team Type 1, in conjunction with the International Diabetes Federation and many diabetes suppliers will also provide hundreds of children in Rwanda with life saving diabetes medication and supplies.
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Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah Team Type 1 put riders into key breakaways scored a top 10 finish while doing its best to make the final stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah a decisive one.
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Park City, Utah With its founder watching along with thousands of others lining a challenging course in Downtown Park City, Team Type 1 put on a show of force during Saturday's fourth stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
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Tooele, Utah The race billed as "America's Toughest Stage Race" gets even harder for Team Type 1 in the final weekend of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
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Mt. Nebo, Utah His intent was to help his Team Type 1 teammates Javier Megias and Scott Stewart, but Chris Jones found himself riding to the top of the Mt. Nebo for himself Thursday afternoon at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
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Salt Lake City - Javier Megias capped an impressive day for Team Type 1 Wednesday at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah by winning the field sprint for third place on Stage 1.
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Salt Lake City - Davide Frattini and Scott Stewart finished 31st and 32nd, respectively, Tuesday night as the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah got underway with the prologue in Salt Lake City.
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Team Type 1 is ready to meet the challenge posed by the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah billed as "America's Toughest Stage Race" with an impressive roster that looks to continue the team's recent run of success.
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Glencoe, IL - Ken Hanson of Team Type 1 rode to a silver medal finish Saturday night at the AT&T USA Cycling Professional Criterium National Championship.
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Five riders – including three Americans – will represent Team Type 1 Saturday at the Glencoe Grand Prix, home to the AT&T USA Cycling Professional Criterium National Championship in Glencoe, Ill.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Aldo Ino Ilesic won his second stage at the Tour do Rio Sunday and Chris Jones finished second overall as Team Type 1 enjoyed a plethora of success in its first competition in South America.
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Cabo Frio, Brazil - Aldo Ino Ilesic made history Saturday when he won Team Type 1's first race in South America.
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Nova Friburgo, Brazil - With two stages remaining at the Tour do Rio, Team Type 1's Chris Jones remains within striking distance of the overall lead.
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Três Rios, Brazil – Ken Hanson delivered Team
Type 1 its second straight runner-up finish
Thursday at the Tour do Rio.
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Angra dos Reis, Brazil – Chris Jones finished
second and teammate Ken Hanson took the field
sprint for fifth Wednesday as Team Type 1 got
off to an impressive start at the Tour do Rio in
Brazil.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Team Type 1's participation in the
Tour do Rio in Brazil marks the first time the world's only men's
professional cycling team with riders who have Type 1 diabetes will
compete on the South American continent.
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Team Type 1 worked tirelessly to get a breakaway going on
Sunday's final stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake. Although the efforts
didn't succeed, the aggressive approach did help land Will Dugan the
team's fourth top 10 finish of the nine-day race.
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Qingshizui, China – Thomas Rabou figured prominently in
Saturday's eighth stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake and Davide Frattini
won the field sprint for seventh place as Team Type 1 enjoyed its best
day in China.
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Qilianmole, China – Thomas Rabou finished 15th to lead Team Type 1 on Friday's seventh stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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Xihaizhen, China – Thomas Rabou of Team Type 1 won the field
sprint Thursday to finish fourth on Stage 6 of the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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BIrd Island, China – Davide Frattini finished in the lead
group Wednesday on a wet, cold fifth stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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Xining, China – The early attacks that Team Type 1 threw down
on Stage 3 at the Tour of Qinghai Lake didn't come to fruition, but
with six days still to come the ultimate objective remains the same.
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Xunhua, China – Thomas Rabou made the breakaway Sunday for
Team Type 1 and teammate Scott Stewart was in contention for the win
until a crash during Stage 2 at the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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Huzhu, China – David Frattini scored a top 10 finish for Team
Type 1 in a rain-soaked, muddy circuit race in China that did not count as part of the overall classification at the Tour of Qinghai Lake Friday.
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Team Type 1 will send a mix of proven climbers and the most
successful rider with Type 1 diabetes in professional cycling to China
for the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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It was a fantastic day for the Team Type 1 Triathlon Team on
June 27, as two of its riders qualified for the USA Triathlon Age Group
Nationals Championships in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this coming September.
Both Bradford Gildon and Patricia Brownell had excellent races that put
them in top ten positions in their age category at the Cohasset
Triathlon in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
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For the second time in his career, Team Type 1’s Shawn Milne
took the victory at the Exeter Hospital Criterium in Exeter, New
Hampshire, outpacing cyclocross star Jonathan Page (Planet Bike) and
Eric Schildge (Mountain Khakis) in a frantic bunch sprint. Milne, who
previously won the event in 2008, was proud of his victory, as the race
had attracted some of New England’s top professional talent.
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One of the most prestigious stage races in New England will
attract two of Team Type 1’s top talents this weekend in central
Massachusetts. The 51st Fitchburg Longsjo Classic will be the next
proving ground for New England natives Will Dugan and Shawn Milne. Milne
will be an especially potent overall threat this year, having
previously won the overall classification in 2006. The stage race, which
covers four days and around 230 miles, is one of the prized feathers in
the cap of any rider from the north east. The race features four
distinctly different races that will test the fitness and abilities of
both Dugan and Milne, who will both certainly be up to the task.
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June 19, 2010 will go down in history as one of the most
successful days in the history of the Team Type 1 cycling family.
Development team member Alex Bowden added another podium finish to the
ones his professional teammates scored at the Tour de Beauce, The Nature
Valley Grand Prix, The Tour of America’s Dairyland and the Race Across
America by notching a second place of his own at the Cobb Park Criterium
in Kankakee, Illinois. Bowden is just coming off a mid-season break,
and his second place was an important finish for both his and the
Development Team’s confidence.
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Team Type 2 began their epic 3,005-mile Race Across America
on June 12 at 5:34 pm EDT in Oceanside, California. Seven days, 15 hours
and eight minutes later, the team of riders living with type 2 diabetes
rolled across the finish line together in Annapolis, Maryland at 8:27
am EDT. The team was both jubilant and exhausted, having lived for a
week on their bikes with only a few hours of sleep a day, but knowing
their journey was for a single cause: to inspire others living with
diabetes to achieve their dreams.
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“This has been one of the best weeks ever for Team Type 1!”
said Phil Southerland, Founder and CEO of Team Type 1. “We had our
riders with type 1 diabetes perform famously. Fabio Calabria took 7th at
Tour de Beauce, Martijin Veercshoor winning 6th at Nature Valley,
Javier placing 2nd at Tour de Beauce and last but not least, Team Type 1
winning RAAM for the 2nd year in a row. Our riders are heros to so many
around the world, and I know they are feeding off each others success
to see how high we can set the bar. The best part, is that the week
isn't over yet!”
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Team Type 1’s Professional Women scored two impressive first
place victories at Tour of the Dairyland in Wisconsin, on June 18th and
19th, with Kori Seehafer commanding a solid third place. Crowell’s wins
allowed her to take command on the US Crit Series Leaders Jersey as well
as the Lap Jersey for the rider who lapped the most number of other
riders in the races
Friday, June 18th saw Team Type 1’s Jacquilyn Crowell and Kori
Seehafer take on the Fiddleheads Coffee Criterium, the second race in
ten days of the US Crit Series, taking place throughout the southern
region of the state of Wisconsin. Crowell took first place with Seehafer
edging in right behind her in third place.
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On June 18, 2010, Team Type 1 claimed its third Race Across
America 8-person team victory with a total time of five days, ten hours
and 48 minutes over the 3,005-mile course from Oceanside, California, to
Annapolis, Maryland. Team Type 1 has now claimed victory in the epic,
24-hour-a-day Race Across America three times in 2007, 2009, and now in
2010
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A typical stage race, which has teams race during the day and
transfer to the next location that night or early the next morning is
like building a house over and over again, except this house is on
wheels. But the Race Across America is very different—it never stops,
whether it rains or snows, or is day or night. And like a typical bike
race, RAAM doesn’t care is someone crashes, gets altitude sickness or
battle a bout of stomach flu. The race just goes on.
Today for Team Type 2, the Race Across America continued across 338
miles of Kansas and into the western cusp of Missouri. Weather began to
play a factor throughout the day as Team Type 2 eased into the back-end
of a huge thunderstorm on the eastern edge of Kansas. But with the
Missouri state line in the distance, spirits were high despite the
weather. “Chances are pretty good we'll get wet at some point for the
rest of the day,” noted rider Rob Coburn.
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In what seems days ago now, Team Type 1 began the day just
past midnight at 3,958 above sea level in Walsh, Colorado at mile 1,284
of Race Across America. By the end of today, Team Type 1’s two
four-person teams, Team Shake and Team Bake, will have raced east
through Colorado and the entire state of Kansas before beginning
Wednesday just outside of Jefferson City, Missouri.
While the average speed for Team Type 1 has been reported at 23.5
mph, crew members suggest that Team Type 1 is, in fact, traveling
faster, and may have a chance at beating its own 3,000+ mile record of 5
days, 9 hours and 3 minutes.
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After a successful weekend at Washington D.C.’s Air Force
Cycling Classic, the team that brought home a pair of top five finishes
will make their way to Minnesota for the five-day Nature Valley Grand
Prix. A core of Team Type 1 sprinters and leadout men, including Joe
Eldridge and Martijn Verschoor, both of whom have type 1 diabetes, Ken
Hanson, Dan Holt and Alexy Schmidt will join opportunistic stage hunters
Davide Frattini, Shawn Milne and Scott Stewart in a well rounded team.
Five days of racing will kick off on Wednesday, June 16th in St. Paul,
and will conclude, after six tough stages, in Stillwater on the 20th.
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Team Type 1’s Valeriy Kobzarenko, who won the event in 2006,
will return to the 25th edition of the Canadian stage race, the Tour de
Beauce, which will get underway on Tuesday, June 15th in Lac-Etchemin,
Quebec, Canada. Joining the former champion will be Javier Meigas and
Fabio Calabria, who both have type 1 diabetes, as well as general
classification threats Mike Creed and Chris Jones, and a strong group
stage hunters in Amgen Tour of California King of the Mountains Thomas
Rabou and Will Dugan. After six days of racing, covering 762 kilometers
of Canadian countryside, Team Type 1 will look to bring home some top
results when they finish in Ville de Saint-Georges on June 20th.
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The Team Type 1 Professional Men’s “Speed Team” was in action
over the past weekend at the 2010 Air Force Cycling Classic, a pair of
famed criterium races in the greater Washington D.C. area. The two
races, including Saturday’s Clarendon Cup and Sunday’s Crystal Cup, are
each stops on USA Cycling’s National Racing Calendar, and gave Team Type
1’s Martijn Verschoor, who has type 1 diabetes, as well as Ken Hanson,
Dan Holt and Alexy Schmidt to contend with the fastest criterium riders
in the United States.
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In the past 24 hours of the epic Race Across America, Team
Type 1 has ridden 421 miles from Mexican Hat, Utah to Trinidad,
Colorado, at an average speed of 23 miles per hour. Over 1,145 miles of
the race are completed for the team, which leaves 1,859 more miles to
race. Meanwhile, Team Type 2 has logged 321 miles from Flagstaff,
Arizona to Durango, Colorado in the past 24 hours at an average speed of
17.5 miles per hour. This puts 857 miles behind Team Type 2 with 2,147
miles yet to complete. The good news is that the climbs and elevation of
the Rocky Mountains will be complete in less than 24 hours and the
rolling hills and crosswinds of Kansas and Missouri await.
According to Rob Coburn of Team Type 2, “sleep is hard to come by,
coming in shifts of three or so hours in the RV. The upside is that the
Milky Way is an incredible sight at night and Monument Valley just after
sun up is truly breathtaking.”
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On June 12th at 2 pm PDT Race Across America (RAAM) began its
3,000-mile journey east from Oceanside, California to Annapolis,
Maryland. In the first 24 hours, Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 powered
their way east through California and the highlands of Arizona before
heading into the mountains of Utah and Colorado early next week.
After departing Oceanside, California at 2 pm PDT/5 pm EDT on June
12, Team Type 2, represented by eight riders with Type 2 diabetes,
checked into the time station at Cottonwood, Arizona, at 7:47 pm EDT on
June 13. This represented 482.88 miles of racing in 26 hours and 47
minutes of racing, leaving 2,522 miles of racing to be completed.
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On June 12th at 2 pm in Oceanside, California, the 28th
edition of the Race Across America (RAAM) began. The race will travel
more than 3,000 miles, from Oceanside, California, to Annapolis,
Maryland. The lowest elevation in the race is 170 feet below sea level
while the highest elevation is more than 10,000 feet high above sea
level. Competition is 24 hours a day until the course is completed. This
is Team Type 1's fifth year participating in RAAM, and Team Type 2's
second year. In the five years competing, Team Type 1 has won the event
twice and set new course records in the process.
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Over the past months, Type Type 1 and Hammer Nutrition have
been developing a nutritional strategy to support Team Type 1 and Team
Type 2 in races from the Amgen Tour of California to the legendary Race
Across America.
The partnership between Team Type 1 and Hammer Nutrition is a result
of Hammer Nutrition’s research into the needs of the human body in
extreme physical conditions, especially with athletes with Type 1 and
Type 2 diabetes. During the 2010 season Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 have
been using Hammer Bars, Hammer Gel and HEED for nutrition and energy
during races. This relationship goes back to 2006 when Hammer Nutrition
was the first nutrition sponsor of Team Type 1 for Race Across America.
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Team Type 1, the US-based bicycle racing organization
focused on diabetes awareness, is sending two teams to compete in the
eight-man relay category of Race Across America (RAAM). The race
starts this Saturday, June 12th in Oceanside, California and finishes in
Annapolis, MD. The squads are: Team Type 1—a team of
athletes with type 1 diabetes, and Team Type 2—a team of amateur
athletes with type 2 diabetes.
RAAM is one of the
most well-known and longest annual endurance events in the world,
attracting international competitors in several categories. The
transcontinental event is a stage-less, straight-shot race across the
country offering cyclists little to no time to rest or even sleep. The
teams log 24-hour days riding through the country’s steepest, rockiest
and most treacherous terrain.
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In Team Type 1’s crusade for diabetes awareness and
empowerment, few have yet flown the flag higher than Javier Megias did
at the 2010 TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Classic. Aside
from placing in the top ten against one of the best fields the race has
seen in its twenty-six year history, Megias, diagnosed with type 1
diabetes thirteen years ago, showed that success on the largest of
stages can be achieved with type 1 diabetes. Megias’ finish, combined
with the tenth place finish of teammate Shawn Milne, capped an
aggressive and successful day for Team Type 1 as they, as team founder
Phil Southerland put it, “proved we are one of the major teams in
America to contend with.”
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Thomas Rabou proved, over a week of extremely aggressive
racing, that he was the man most worthy of wearing the King of the
Mountains leader’s red jersey. For his efforts, Rabou took home a total
of twelve individual King of the Mountains victories, the final King of
the Mountains leader’s jersey and the Most Courageous Rider jersey on
stage two. The week’s main attention may have been centered on the
overall classification battle, but the true star of the 2010 Amgen Tour
of California was Team Type 1’s Thomas Rabou.
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As the curtain closed on the 2010 Amgen Tour of California,
Team Type 1 achieved what it had been hoping to since it opened up the
eight-day stage race one Sunday ago. When Team Type 1’s Thomas Rabou
crossed the line safely inside stage eight’s time cut, he confirmed his
hold on the California Travel and Tourism King of the Mountains jersey,
arguably the biggest accomplishment in Team Type 1’s history. To further
Team Type 1’s achievements, Valeriy Kobzarenko and Chris Jones improved
on their positions in the overall classification standings with strong
rides on what was an extremely challenging day.
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With the conclusion of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California
stage seven Los Angeles Time Trial, Team Type 1 moved one day closer to
closing out what has shaped up to be one of the greatest weeks in the
team’s history. With great rides around the 21 mile course in downtown
Los Angeles, Team Type 1 was able to hold on to 16th and 17th place
overall, as well as move one step closer to securing, once and for all,
the Tour of California’s King of the Mountain leader’s jersey.
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Members of Team Type 1 discuss the monumental Stage 6 of the
Amgen Tour of California. Interviews with Vassili Davidenko, Michael
Carter, Chris Jones and Thomas Rabou lead up to the re-claiming of the
coveted King of the Mountains jersey.
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For the second time in the 2010 Amgen Tour of California,
Team Type 1 rider Thomas Rabou showed that he is one of the premiere
climbers in the peloton, regaining the King of the Mountains jersey that
he had lost one day prior. Rabou’s efforts on stage six assured that
the man from Schijndel, Netherlands will wear the King of the Mountains
leaders jersey on Sunday, when the curtain is drawn in Thousand Oaks.
The good news didn’t end there, as Team Type 1’s general classification
riders Valeriy Kobzarenko and Chris Jones were both able to make moves
up the overall leader board.
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A day that looked simple on paper, turned out to be anything
but for Team Type 1 at the fifth stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of
California. Despite only two rated climbs, the field endured nearly five
challenging hours in the saddle, as the overall leaders decided to take
action over the 121.5 miles between Visalia and Bakersfield,
California. Chris Jones and Valeriy Kobzarenko continued to hold their
own against some of the greatest cyclists of the current generation,
while Thomas Rabou again proved that he is one of the most aggressive
riders in this year’s Tour of California.
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Team Type 1 raced from Visalia to Bakersfield, California
today in the Amgen Tour of California. Phil Southerland, Michael Carter
and Javier Leal Megia share their thoughts on Stage Five of the Tour.
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Team Type 1 its first top ten finish of the 2010 Amgen Tour
of California after a grueling stage four took its toll on the team and
the peloton. The day’s affairs covered 121.5 miles between San Jose and
Modesto, California, including two rated climbs and untold painful
undulations. When the dust settled, the peloton finished the stage with a
sprint, allowing Hanson to mix it up on America’s biggest stage.
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Ken Hanson scored Team Type 1 its first top ten finish of the
2010 Amgen Tour of California after a grueling stage four took its toll
on the team and the peloton. The day’s affairs covered 121.5 miles
between San Jose and Modesto, California, including two rated climbs and
untold painful undulations. When the dust settled, the peloton finished
the stage with a sprint, allowing Hanson to mix it up on America’s
biggest stage.
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Michael Carter of Team Type 1 shares his thoughts before and
after stage three in an exclusive video interview at the start and
finish of the stage today.
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For the second straight day, Team Type 1 was the King of the
Mountains of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, picking up the maximum
number of points at all but one of stage three’s King of the Mountain
sites. Like Thomas Rabou one day prior, Team Type 1 climber Davide
Frattini was a dominant force when the road went upwards, and personally
ran the team’s win streak at King of the Mountain points to seven in a
row. When Frattini’s day was finished, Chris Jones and Valeriy
Kobzarenko took their turn to show that Team Type 1 can truly compete
with the titans of the sport.
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Davide Frattini chats with us before the start of Stage Three
in San Francisco and afterwards in Santa Cruz about the day and
defending Thomas Rabou's KOM jersey.
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What started out as a miserable, rainy California day turned
out to be one of the best days in the entire history of Team Type 1’s
Professional Men’s team, thanks to the efforts of Thomas Rabou. Stage
two’s conditions were more reminiscent of Rabou’s native Holland than a
late spring day in Davis, California, as Rabou used the many short,
steep ascents to climb his way into the Amgen Tour of California’s King
of the Mountain leader’s jersey and the Most Courageous Jersey.
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What started out as a miserable, rainy California day turned
out to be one of the best days in the entire history of Team Type 1’s
Professional Men’s team, thanks to the efforts of Thomas Rabou. Stage
two’s conditions were more reminiscent of Rabou’s native Holland than a
late spring day in Davis, California, as Rabou used the many short,
steep ascents to climb his way into the Amgen Tour of California’s King
of the Mountain leader’s jersey and the Most Courageous Jersey.
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Race strategy and keeping the bikes working properly are
essentials of making a successful team. Here, Assistant Director
Sportif, Michael Carter, and Chief Mechanic, Alex Banyay, briefly
describe Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California, as well as
the nuts and bolts of keeping the riders on the bikes.
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The Team Type 1 Professional Men’s team kicked off the 2010
Amgen Tour of California with a performance in Sunday’s stage one that
proved that they are capable of competing with the best in the world.
With one stage in the books, Team Type 1 can now settle in and focus on
the stages ahead, having come through the tour’s first stage in one
piece.
Not long after the Amgen Tour of California caravan left stage one’s
start in Nevada City, California, did the action in America’s largest
cycling race begin. Team Type 1 reacted when an initial breakaway group
of four escaped up the road. Accompanied by two others, young climber
Scott Stewart set off to bridge the quickly opening gap to the front.
While the peloton may have had other ideas for Stewart and his
companions, absorbing them after only a few kilometers off the front,
his move signaled that Team Type 1 is an underdog with fangs.
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Ken Hanson spends a few minutes with us in Nevada City before the start of Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California.
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The Amgen Tour of California may be hours away from Sunday’s
start in Nevada City, but the race has already started for Team Type 1.
Yesterday, Team Type 1 Founder and CEO Phil Southerland joined Team Type
1 athletes Davide Frattini, Aldo Ino Ilesic, Chris Jones, Scott Stewart
and triathlete Matt Vogel at three outreach events in the Sacramento
area.
To begin the day, Southerland, Frattini and Ilesic surprised the
children at the Children’s Center at Sutter Medical Center. Frattini and
Ilesic arrived at the front enntrance of the hospital astride their
Colnago CX-1’s and greeted a number of children and their parents along
with nurses and doctors. Phil Southerland pulled up behind in the Team
Type 1 BMW 328i wagon, punctuating the bling factor of professional
cycling.
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On May 16, riders from across the globe will descend on
Nevada City, California for the opening stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of
California. Team Type 1 will bring a powerful lineup to the race to
compete against the deepest field the eight-stage race has assembled in
its five-year history.
Javier Megias, a rider with Type 1 diabetes will be joined by general
classification hopefuls Davide Frattini and Valeriy Kobzarenko, sprint
specialists Ken Hanson and Aldo Ilesic, and stage hunters Chris Jones,
Thomas Rabou and Scott Stewart.
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As April turns the corner into May, Team Type 1 is as busy as
ever. The Amgen Tour of California is around the corner and race after
race is on the horizon. Here is what’s been happening this past week.
Phil Southerland carries the team flag to Italy.
Team Type 1 Founder and CEO, Phil Southerland, is meeting this week
in Italy with Giro d’Italia officials. Southerland’s goal is to have
Team Type 1 race in the 101-year-old grand tour – raising international
awareness of the team’s mission.
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Your interest in Team Type 1 has been integral to our mission
to instill hope and inspiration for people around the world affected by
diabetes.
The upcoming Amgen Tour of California is America’s biggest
professional cycling event. And Team Type 1 would love for you to be a
part of it.
To show our thanks for your interest in Team Type 1, we want to give
you a unique opportunity to see Team Type 1 and professional cycling
from the inside out.
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With the Amgen Tour of California just over the horizon, the
Team Type 1 Pro Men headed to Mexico for the Vuelta Mexico Telmex
brought home the team general classification victory, a stage win and
three top five finishes.
Team director Vassili Davidenko was optimistic about the chances for
Team Type 1 ahead of the Vuelta Mexico Telmex. “After three stages wins
and podium places at the Tour of Morocco, I knew we were going to do
well. I was confident in the guys. I think we have a great team and as a
result, we have five UCI wins so far.”
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In preparation for the New York City Marathon, Team Type 1
Triathlon Team member Kevin Powell took on the 114th Boston Marathon
this past Monday, with an impressive final time of 3:11:20.
Running the Boston Marathon is a challenge for anyone. But for
Powell, who has Type 1 diabetes, it requires additional preparation and
management to keep his blood sugar level as stable as possible.
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A lifelong athlete, James Stout has always loved cycling and
began training seriously as a cyclist at age 16. Two years later, in the
midst of his training and after a visit to Kenya, Stout noticed that
he’d lost a considerable amount of weight in just a few months. Well
meaning friends suggested he might have a tropical illness. After a
visit to his doctor, however, Stout was diagnosed with diabetes. A
challenge to manage at first, diabetes has not kept Stout from competing
in races across Southern California and pursuing other life goals.
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Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 are moving into the meat of the
racing season, and continue to achieve great results across the board.
Regional and training races have paved the way for national races for
some of the programs. And the Team Type 1 Professional Men continue to
thrive on an international racing schedule. The team cars are rolling
in the US supporting the pro men and logging some serious miles between
races and our home base in Atlanta.
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After a spring spent collecting top results against regional
competition, the Team Type 1 Women’s Team was ready to tackle its first
American NRC event, the Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama. The
team had Mandy Marquardt, Kori Seehafer and Jackie Crowell to contest
its toughest race so far this season.
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On a day that rivaled any early spring day in Northern
Europe, Team Type 1 headed to Cambridge, New York for the Tour of the
Battenkill. Team Type 1 had three riders with type 1 diabetes, Fabio
Calabria, Joe Eldridge and Martijn Verschoor, along with Will Dugan, Ken
Hanson and Thomas Rabou on hand to tackle the race fittingly called
“America’s Queen of the Classics.”
A race already feared for its grueling dirt sections, Tour of the
Battenkill was made all the more intense by temperatures in the mid
forties and intermittent cold rain.
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After a successful Tour of Morocco, Team Type 1’s Aldo Ino
Ilesic has taken the victory and yellow jersey in Stage One of the
prestigious Vuelta Mexico. The stage was a humid, flat and fast 80
kilometer circuit race in the sea-level port city of Veracruz. Despite
headwinds, crosswinds and rugged roads, the powerhouse team of Valery
Kobzarenko, Shawn Milne, Scott Stewart, Javier Leal Megias, Chris Jones,
and Davide Frattini were able to lead Aldo out to victory.
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With the first quarter of 2010 behind us, Team Type 1 and
Team Type 2 are training, racing and thriving. Here are a few highlights
from the past week.
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As the days grow longer, the performances of Team Type 1
continues to get stronger. This past weekend the Developmental Team
headed to the Rock Hill Bicycle Classic in Rock Hill, South Carolina,
for the three day, three-stage event that would be a perfect proving
ground for top sprinters, especially Team Type 1’s young superstar, Olaf
Kerkhof.
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April sun has the teams outside and riding in all parts of
the country as the Pro men continue the world tour with extremely
impressive results. So impressive in fact that this may be one of the
biggest weeks in the history of Team Type 1.
The following story from Cycling news features the team’s huge
success in the Tour du Maroc. Aldo went on to win another stage and the
team captured the team title for the event. This is a big win for the
program and is an early indication of how strong the team is riding and
working together to protect race positions.
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Team Type 1 has officially been handed the chance at claiming
California glory, being named as one of the sixteen teams invited to
the 2010 Amgen Tour of California today.
“Being invited to one of the most prestigious cycling events in the
world is a true honor,” said Team Type 1 CEO, Phil Southerland. “It will
be a wonderful opportunity to share the mission of Team Type 1 with the
spectators.”
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Stage 9 of the Tour of Morocco was actually split into two
stages. Stage 9A took the tour from the Atlantic coast directly inland,
which meant that if there was to be any wind at all it would be a tail
wind. The information about the stage (since there have never been any
profiles provided) was that both stages today would be pancake flat.
That was not really the case, but the rolling terrain was not
significant to really make a difference or determine or create a
selection in the peloton.
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The pre-race report was that the last 5 K of this cross-wind
day was supposed to feature a KOM. However, no such climb in any way
shape or form did a climb occur. Our objective at the start was the same
as stage 7—watch out first for Kobzarenko and his standing on 2nd in
the GC, then the 1st place Team GC.
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The American NRC circuit was finally in full swing as Team
Type 1 headed to Redlands, California for the Redlands Bicycle Classic
for four days of intense domestic racing action. Team Type 1 brought a
balanced squad of riders to both chase stage wins and overall
classifications. When the dust settled, Team Type 1 emerged with its
first classification jersey of the season.
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What seemed to be a rather benign stage turned into an event
that saw the filed blow into pieces after the second KOM. This stage
started inland in the town of Teouan and raced west towards the Atlantic
coast into a head wind that came just a touch from the right.
After 75 K, the race turned north and the winds became
cross-headwinds. Following the second climb. The filed was split into
six groups. The first group of 21 contained all of the principle players
on GC. Once again, very little information about the stage was
available but we knew that once the stage turned north along the coast,
cross winds would play a major role in determining the out come for the
stage.
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At this point of the stage race, the Lobroyika team has the
race under good control. The tactic is to allow riders who are of no
threat to the leader go up the road and then watch only the riders who
are dangerous, like out own Valerey Kobzarenko, who is in 2nd on
individual General Classification (G.C.).
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The rumors at the start of this day were that this was going
to be he first of the two hardest days of the tour and, hard it was! The
winds picked up and were from behind (tailwinds) all day. That makes
for very difficult racing as there is much less draft that the riders
can enjoy by sitting in the group or on someones wheel and the pace
tends to be much higher than normal, which it was! The first climb came
after 28 K, about 5% and lasted for 6 K or so. This climb took the
riders up to a plateau where the winds really took their toll on the
peloton. Riders were spread between at least four different groups as a
result with quite a few stray riders in between these groups.
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This day brought Team Type 1 its’ first international win
for 2010, thanks to not only the winner of the stage, Aldo Ino Ilesic,
but also Aldo’s other three remaining teammates, Valerey Kobzarenko,
Michael Creed and Chris Jones. A break of three was established after
50 K, when a rider from Nippo and two from the Moroccan national team
escaped and gained a maximum lead of 3:40 at one point. The race
leader’s Croatian team, Lobroika rode at the front with the Russian Team
Katyusha and Team Type 1 riding just behind the Croats.
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As we finish up the month of March and head into the spring
rain of April, we at Team Type 1 want to say thanks again for a great
start to the season. We have a lot of successes to be proud about
already, both on and off the bike. As for being on the bike, we hope
each of you takes advantage of the end of winter and the beginning of
spring by getting out your bike and giving it a tune up at your favorite
bike shop so you can head out for a spin and enjoy the end of a cold,
long winter.
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Team Type 2, the amateur bike racing team made up entirely of
athletes with Type 2 diabetes, today announced the eight-man squad
selected to race RAAM this year. The squad was selected after 3 months
of directed training and a time trial held at the Team Type 1/Team Type 2
training camp in February. The team will compete in the 8-person relay
category.
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Team Type 1 notched its first national championship medal of
the 2010 season March 24th at the Russian National Track Championships
in St. Petersburg. Team Type 1 professional rider, Alexey Shmidt, and
his partner, Sergei Kolesnikov, won the Russian Madison title and earned
a qualification for Saturday’s Madison World Championships in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
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As an Italian cyclist I can tell you that I always dreamt to
race on an Ernesto Colnago bike because it is considered the “Ferrari”
of the bicycle. It is a name rich in tradition, culture, history and
victories. With more than 55 years of experience, Colnago is one of the
most desired brands in the world.
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Team Type 1 today announced the launch of a research project
to better understand Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes using 23andMe’s Personal
Genome Service™.
23andMe, Inc., a leading personal genetics company, began its
analysis of all 88 Team Type 1 members by collecting saliva samples from
each member at their training camp in Georgia. These samples were then
analyzed using the latest in DNA technology.
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After coming together for the first time this season at the
San Dimas Stage Race, Team Type 1 turns its attention to the first stop
on the American NRC calendar, the Redlands Bicycle Classic. Team Type
1’s depth and balance will be their greatest asset at the Redlands
Bicycle Classic. The variation in discipline and the difficult nature of
the race itself will be the perfect showcase of both Team Type 1’s
ability to ride with the best riders in America, and their ability to
adapt to any racing situation.
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The first few weeks of March have been a race to get to start
lines all over the United States, as well as Morocco. And Team Type 1
could not have accomplished any of this without your generous support
and guidance. So, a big Grazie Mille to each of you for being part of
our mission! We are sincerely thankful for your support and enthusiasm
for our teams and our cause.
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As the NRC calendar bears down upon the American peloton,
Team Type 1 was in San Dimas, California for the San Dimas Stage Race.
The three-stage race, which has become a mainstay of the early domestic
season, served as the final tune-up for Team Type 1’s Fabio Calabria,
Will Dugan, Ken Hanson, Dan Holt, Davide Fratini, Scott Stewart and
Martijn Verschoor before they turn their attention to the season’s first
major goal, the Redlands Bicycle Classic.
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Friday, March 26th will kick off Team Type 1’s first
international stage race of the season, the 23rd Tour of Morocco. The
race, which totals ten days of racing, spread across ten stages – two of
which are split stages – begins in the Moroccan capital of Rabat and
concludes in Morocco’s largest city – Casablanca – on April 4th.
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Funding for the 2010 Tour of Missouri is in question. As a
participant in the Tour of Missouri in 2009, Team Type 1 was able to
reach the 325,000 citizens of Missouri who have been diagnosed with
diabetes. The Tour of Missouri was also beneficial to the state of
Missouri, bringing in $38.1 million in economic development from a $1.5
million investment by the state. For both Team Type 1 and the state of
Missouri, the 2010 Tour of Missouri is a “win-win.”
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This weekend plays host to the Team Type 1 Proessional Team’s
first major stage race of the year, California’s annual San Dimas Stage
Race. Team Type 1 sends a strong team to the event, including Fabio
Calabria, Will Dugan, Davide Frattini, Ken Hanson, Dan Holt, Scott
Stewart and Martijn Verschoor. Seasoned director Vassili Davidenko will
lead the squad as they hit the line Friday afternoon for the first of
the race’s three stages.
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Team Type 1’s Professional “Speed Team” kicked off their
criterium season March 7th at the OCBC Cycle Singapore. Criterium
specialists Joe Eldridge, Martijn Verschoor, Ken Hanson and Aldo Ino
Ilesic traveled to Singapore to officially begin the Team Type 1
Professional team’s racing calendar. Eldridge, Verschoor, Hanson and
Ilesic make up one of the strongest criterium foursomes in the American
domestic peloton, and showed that they can mix it up on the
international stage, thanks to a fifth place finish by Ken Hanson.
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Temperatures may not have climbed high enough to make outdoor
triathlons comfortable, but members of the Team Type 1 Triathlon Team
have been sharpening their tools in anticipation of the triathlon
season. Team Members Bradford Gildon, Kevin Powell and team co-manager
Tom Kingery all showed they are moving steadily towards their peak with
strong performances in key early season tune-up events.
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The Team Type 1 Development squad returned to Greenville,
South Carolina for their first races of March at the final two races of
the Greenville Spring Training Series. After two intense weeks of
racing, the Developmental Team was eager to prove that they were coming
together as a unit, and repeat the success of their trip to Greenville
two weeks prior.
Developmental riders Simon Bennett, Olaf Kerkhof, Justin Morris,
Stradford Helms and Team Directors Tim Henry and Tim Powell were joined
on the road by Team Type 1 Pro Men's team member, Davide Frattini, in
the team’s search for more victories.
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The Team Type 1 Women’s Team took advantage of the first
weekend of March to extend their unbeaten streak to six straight races,
winning the three events that made up the Regions Bank Race Weekend in
Athens, Georgia.
Team Type 1 Women’s Team members Jackie Crowell and Morgan Patton
again had the chance to show off their near-perfect team dynamics, and
the results could not have been better.
Saturday morning found Crowell and Patton lined up for their second
short time trial of the season, after Crowell rode to victory in the
time trial stage of the Tallahassee Omnium seven days earlier. The time
trial took place on the same course as the criterium, completing nearly a
full lap of the course before turning around and doing a lap in the
opposite direction. While the course may not have been the best match to
Patton and Crowell’s strengths, they proved to be getting to their top
fitness at an early stage of the season.
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While the Team Type 1 Professional team may have had its day
on the podium one week ago in Greenville, South Carolina, members of the
Team Type 1 Women's and Developmental Teams made the best of their
opportunities at the Tallahassee Omnium as February drew to a close.
Team Type 1 riders on both fronts took home a total of three wins, eight
podium finishes and grabbed a first, second and third place overall.
On Saturday, the Women's and Developmental teams faced a grueling
circuit race that would be a good early season test for Stradford Helms,
Justin Morris, Olaf Kerkhof and Simon Bennett of the Developmental
squad and Jackie Crowell and Morgan Patton of the Women's team. Coach
Tim Henry and professional men's member, Dan Holt, were also in
attendance to get some early season racing under their belts.
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The calendar may only say February, but members of the Team
Type 1 professional and development teams already have two races under
their belts. And they didn't wait long to grab the season's first win. A
mix of professional and developmental riders headed to Greenville,
South Carolina, shortly after wrapping up the team's pre-season training
camp, for the first two races of the 2010 Greenville Spring Training
Series.
Team Type 1's first race for the 2010 season was the Donaldson Center
Road Race in Greenville - a 56-mile road race that brought out some of
the fastest locals Greenville has to offer. Team Type 1 used the race to
provide developmental team members the opportunity to ride alongside
their professional team counterparts.
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Team Type 1 Professional Men team member, Mike Creed knows a
thing or two about racing bikes. In his 10 years as a professional,
Creed has ridden for 7-Up/Colorado Cyclist (2000), Prime Alliance
Cycling Team (2001-2003), U.S. Postal presented by Berry Floor (2004),
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling (2005), TIAA-CREF (2006) and Team
Slipstream (2007).
Mike also knows how to work with a bike to make it do what he wants,
both during the racing season as well as post-season. "I have an
appreciation for people who do things a bit different. For people who
put thought and process into everything they do," he observes.
Like many pro cyclists, Mike is constantly looking for ways to tweak
his bike to make it better, faster and stronger. A millimeter lower
here. An angle adjusted there. In cycling, it's the little things that
make the biggest difference.
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The café:ine Airstream is the most distinctive support
vehicle in the sport of cycling. It serves bold cups of hot coffee to
professional athletes and curious fans alike. It travels to all the
major races in the United States. And for gosh sakes, it's all done out
of an Airstream. What could be possibly more hip than that? Jason Kriel,
that's what.
In a move that is equal parts hip, smart and inspired, Jason has
joined the ranks of Team Type 1's official sponsors in 2010. On top of
this, you will find Jason pulling espressos and selling Team Type 1
merchandise. So, wherever you see the café:ine Airstream, you will be
sure to find a great cup of coffee, a line of cycling fans, a couple of
pro riders and some sweet Team Type 1 gear.
To kick off our partnership with café:ine, we wanted to learn a
little more about Jason and what his company is all about. And, so, we
subjected him to the Team Type 1 10 Question Challenge.
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Imagine this. You wake up on a Wednesday morning in Sydney,
Australia. You make a cup of strong coffee, stuff your luggage in the
trunk, hop in the car, drive to the airport and kiss your loved ones
goodbye. You and your oversized, overweight bags head over to the
international terminal. You check in, pay the extra weight fee, get a
seat assignment ("Aisle, please. Exit row if you got it. Thanks."), go
through security, head to your gate. And wait.
You board the plane, walk down the aisle, find your seat, fill the
luggage compartment with your over-stuffed carry on, sit down. And wait.
You listen to the flight attendant explain the emergency evacuation
procedures and how to fasten your seat belt. You wonder why-and even
how-a seat beat could do you any good on an airplane at terminal
velocity.
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"Good day. This is Tim Dolan." That's what you get on Tim's
voice mail. And he's not kidding. Dolan hasn't had a bad day since April
23, 2006.
A veteran of the beef industry, Tim traveled the country in various
professional roles selling beef, talking beef and eating beef. Lot's of
beef. He had decades of business dinners in some of the best steak
houses in the country. The focus was the food. Vegetables came with
sauce. Salad was something to hold up the dressing.
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