The Tour of Utah begins in less than an hour. Here is a link for the Tour Tracker, which begins streaming pretty soon. The race looks to be pretty hard this year with over 40K vertical feet of climbing in less than a week. As much as I hate it, I have to pick Francesco Mancebo to win this year. He doesn’t have the greatest team to support him, but there really aren’t a ton of other pure climbers in the race. I hope I’m wrong.
Steve, have you noticed your buddy Joe Schmalz is now riding for Hincapie Sportswear in the Tour of Utah?
Thorns-Yes, I got a hold of Joseph yesterday and wished him good luck. Climbing at altitude might not be the best place for him to show case his abilities, but he is a super rider and just generally nice kid, so he’ll be fine.
Thanks for posting this, great coverage. Tim Johnson is pretty good.
USADA are not being allowed to test at Utah so expect amazing things. 😉
Correction. USADA are testing at UTAH but not the US prochallenge
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15172/USADA-to-carry-out-testing-at-the-Tour-of-Utah.aspx