1st Endurance is heading to  the Team Astana training camp in Santa Rosa, California from February 1st thru the 5th to work (and ride) with the team and management.  We’ll be posting frequent updates, photos, daily riding details, interviews, etc… here.  If you have questions for any of the riders or directors on the team, post them on the blog and we’ll do our best to get them answered for you.

About Team Astana:

The new Astana Cycling Team is in its second year under the leadership of Johan Bruyneel, the eight- time winning Sports Director of the Tour de France.  In Bruyneel’s first year, Team Astana accumulated  35 victories, including the prestigious Grand Tours of Italy and Spain.  Sponsored by a consortium of companies hailing from Astana, the capital of cycling enthused Kazakhstan, the Team was created to foster national pride and develop the next generation of professional Kazakh cyclists.  The 2009 squad consists of 27 riders representing 9 countries and includes Grand Tour leaders, Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Andreas Klöden and Levi Leipheimer. Team Astana is a member of cycling’s elite UCI ProTour and competes in a clean and ethical environment under the guidance of Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard’s anti-doping program.