Day 1, Prologue 15.5km

Thursday 4th June
Day 1, Prologue
Monaco 15.5km

We are finally here at the starting line of the 2009 Tour de France route and can’t believe it after all these years of hard work and preparation.
Monaco will be a great place for the 14km Tour de France prologue so make sure you watch it on TV on the [...]

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Training Ride with Simon Gerrans

Simon Gerrans and I both grew up in country Victoria. I thought I would mention that geographical link because physically there aren’t many links to speak of!
My max V02 (which tests aerobic capacity) is 44 (atrocious)! Simon’s is 84.
I watch 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre on TV. Simon is his team mate and [...]

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Rome

VSL#3
The Crohn’s Crusaders are on schedule as far as the cycling is concerned but we have fallen behind with our e-news updates so we will send you a few at a time over the next few days until we catch up.
The major sponsor of the Crohn’s Crusaders project, VSL#3, arranged an amazing week in Rome [...]

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0 sleeps till Prologue!

Thanks very much for following the progress of the Crohn’s Crusaders. On Thursday we arrived in Europe and we only have 30 minutes until we start the ride! We can’t wait.
Training has progressed along pretty well and (we think) we are ready!
e-news call to action
One of our two project goals is to raise awareness of [...]

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Crohn’s Crusaders Announce Patron

I am very excited to announce that leading Australian cyclist Simon Gerrans has become a patron of the Crohn’s Crusaders project.
Simon won a gruelling mountain stage at the Tour de France last year and is one of the most highly respected cyclists in the sport.
Since his stage 15 win last year he has been paid [...]

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