Team Garmin: Tour of California in their own words

If you’ve been following this week’s Tour of California through race recaps or Twitter updates, you know that the Argyle Armada is often quoted by the media – or asked to write first-person perspectives. With two stages down and crazy days ahead, here are a few recent excerpts from Team Garmin:

For starters, the always
quotable Dave Zabriskie will keep his fans entertained while blogging
for USA Today: “I am now a resident of this great state, so this
is truly my home race. Some of the biggest names in cycling are here;
guys we compete with all over Europe are now on our home turf.”

Monday, Team CEO Jonathan Vaughters commented on a soggy Stage 2 that put Zabriskie, Tom Danielson, Ryder Hesjedal (8th today) and Peter Stetina within 10 seconds of the overall lead: “Tour of Cali is shaping up about as expected. A group of 28 came in to Santa Rosa today, making the first GC selection of the race. Garmin-Transitions and Radio Shack had the largest representations in this front group with 4 and 5 riders respectively, setting up the GC war to come.”

Twitter brought us 140-character-or-less post-race ponderings from Steve Cozza: “Lots of crashes today. I saw like 25 diff crashes today in the rain. I too lost some skin going down trinity.I felt strong.” and Stetina: “Rain+twisty descents+fogged glasses= mortally damaged brake pads. I gotta remember to drink in rainy stages.”

And we’ll let Zabriskie sign off for us as we agree completely: “I could sit here and type a million words about how excited I am about this race, but DZ needs to get his rest.”