Rabobank Team Thread

Hi Rabobank,

Welcome to the Tour De France Bike Challenge 2008.

On the roads of France this Dutch team will be about team leader Russian Denis Menchov who is out to try and convert his two wins at the Vuelta Espana (Tour of Spain) into a win at the Tour De France.

Among the support riders are two exciting riders who often feature in breakaways, Oscar Freire and Juan Antonio Flecha.

On BT, your team line up for the challenge is:

1. adamsc2

2. AmbulanceDriver

3. Barqhead

4. cadmus

5. jeffy_101

6. kns57

7. xmann1102

8. Yoganerd

Now you have found the team thread, introduce yourself to your team mates below with some information which could include name, goals or info on your current bike(s).

Reporting for the challenge over the next three weeks will take place in three blocks matching the Tour De France racing days. The dates are as follows:

Week 1: 5^th – 14^th July

Week 2: 15^th – 21 July

Week 3: 22 – 27 July

Your team has a tracking spreadsheet set up and active in google spreadsheet.

To open the spreadsheet click on this link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfYL7DR_dx-BNPVnMVWzyKA&... />

To login to Google Docs:

Username: btchallenge

Password: challengeforum

You can update the spreadsheet at any time to track your own, and your teams progress. I will be grabbing each teams results to date and posting a challenge update that includes all of the teams progress and any interesting tid bits from the various team threads. This update will be posted at the end of the each reporting week listed above.

The winning team will be determined by the team with the highest percentage of goal achieved. No one can go over 100% of goal and if more than one team hits 100% then there is more than one winning team!

To remind everyone to post their updates, and I recommend that you nominate a team leader to help with reminding everyone to report in each week. But the job of inspiring and motivating your team mate really does rest with each individual so don’t forget to give everyone some regular encouragement here in the team thread and through inspires on training logs.

I will try to pop in regularly to see how your team is getting on. If there are any questions throughout the course of the challenge let me know, I will pop back in the next 24 hours with some additional information and rider profiles for your Tour De France team before the action kicks off on the roads of France.

Happy Pedaling

Cat