CTS Athlete Results from La Ruta Stage 2

Results from Stage 2 of the La Ruta de los Conquistadores are filtering in. We don’t have overall standings, just the stage finishes. We’ll update this post as we get more information. Manny Prado: 6th Jason Tullous: 12th Jim Lehman: 14th Adam Pulford: 23rd Francois Millard: 25th Pavel Popiolek: 29th Van Council: 44th Ben Morris: …

La Ruta Photos from Annie Pulford

Annie Pulford is in Costa Rica with the CTS Support Crew and to support her favorite racer, husband and CTS Coach Adam Pulford. Check out this huge photo gallery of pre-race activities and Stage 1. Click here to go to Annie’s La Ruta Gallery.

Welcome to the Jungle Stage 1

By Jason Tullous [You can see Jason’s blog at http://jasontullous.wordpress.com/] I made it and yes today was harder than Leadville.  The problem is I have 3 more stages. The beginning The start was actually very controlled with everyone aware of the day that lay ahead of them and the initial climb started 5km into the …

CTS Athletes after La Ruta Stage 1

Stage 1 of the 2010 La Ruta de los Conquistadores is in the books and it was hard day but overall a good one. Defending champion Manny Prado reported via Twitter, “Very hard day, felt terrible for the first 60km then made some time back on the last 50. Hoping for better legs tomorrow.” He …

Chris Carmichael’s Pre-La Ruta Thoughts

La Ruta de los Conquistadores starts tomorrow! After a year of training, four training camps (including a reconnaissance trip to Costa Rica in September), and an enormous number of hours on the bike, I’m finally in Costa Rica with the 10 CTS Athletes and three CTS Coaches who are going to tackle La Ruta with …

Living the Life

CTS Coaches work hard, just like CTS Athletes, but we also get to enjoy some great experiences. Lindsay Hyman traveled to Florida last weekend to guide some of the athletes she works with through their races at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. She’ll be headed back to wintery Colorado soon enough, but before she leaves …