winter training...best holiday location?

weeve

I have some airmiles burning a hole in my pocket...would like to go somewhere for xmas and new year to road train...where apart from southern spain or mallorca (with hills) do the team go? California? Any advise on good locations welcome
thanks

dennisn

I love training in Mexico for a week or so in the winter. It's really intense. The waiters
bring you food and beer faster than you can drink or eat it. Lots of active rest - sitting on the beach until you get too hot - jump in the ocean until you cool down - sit on the beach-
jump in the ocean-lots of reps there. It's tough. I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone. My wife and I are professionals and it takes some getting used to.
Sorry if you were being serious but I couldn't resist.

Dennis Noward

dcj

tenerife has a 13,000 ft mountain and amazing weather all year round.
Lance and many other pros use it for altitude and winter training.

synchronicity

Here's a list of professional cyclists that have trained in Tenerife... at least the ones I could find:

Miguel Indurain - fuente
Marco Pantani - fuente
Lance Armstrong US Postal Service / Team Discovery- Fuente
Andreas Klöden Fuente
Alexandre Vinokourov - fuente
Matthias Kessler - fuente
Gerben Löwik - fuente
Bjarne Riis - fuente
Tom Boonen - fuente
Steven de Jongh - fuente
Niclas Axelsson - fuente
Thomas Ziegler - fuente
Grischa Niermann - fuente
Markus Fothen - fuente
Paolo Savoldelli fuente
Mario Aerts - fuente
Matti Breschel - CSC Fuente
Eddy Mazzoleni - fuente
Levi Leipheimer - fuente
Ivan Gotti - fuente
Vincenzo Nibali - fuente
Franco Pellizotti - fuente
Enrico Gasparotto - fuente
Lotto Cycling Team - fuente
Paola Pezzo - fuente
Georg Totschnig - fuente
Tom Smith - fuente

claudb

I'm a Lanzarote fan. Only weather issue is that it can be, at times, very windy.
The terrain is always up and down but no huge climbs like on Tenerife.
I'd say there's plenty of scope for routes whatever part of the island you stay.
Here's a couple of Links which may help -

http://ciclomania.es/

http://www.cycle1st.co.uk/lanzarote/index.htm

liversedge

claudb wrote:

I'm a Lanzarote fan. Only weather issue is that it can be, at times, very windy.
The terrain is always up and down but no huge climbs like on Tenerife.
I'd say there's plenty of scope for routes whatever part of the island you stay.
Here's a couple of Links which may help -

http://ciclomania.es/

http://www.cycle1st.co.uk/lanzarote/index.htm

club la santa is getting a bit tired and needs a bit of a refresh but is very bike friendly (mechanics, bike in room etc), not the best place to take kids though. Lanzarote is *always* windy, not just at times. but this is a positive in some respects - so long as you have a power meter!! the roads are all pristine and their isn't a huge amount of traffic. flights are pretty cheap. Not the greatest night life if you're looking for fun for wife and kids etc.

claudb

If you want nightlife then the best you can do is base yourself in Puerto del Carmen. That's what we've done on all but one of our trips. Most of the accommodation there are used to cyclists because of the Ironman which brings large numbers every year.
For riding it's as good a base as any. In very windy conditions I've even resorted to loops within the 'residential' areas of the resort at the 'Los Pocillos' and 'Matagorda' end.

vitesse169

I go to Cypru, but only because I have family there. However, the roads are good, the weather warmer than UK, & I have seen numerous teams from Europe training there.

sloxam

claudb wrote:

I'm a Lanzarote fan. Only weather issue is that it can be, at times, very windy.
The terrain is always up and down but no huge climbs like on Tenerife.
I'd say there's plenty of scope for routes whatever part of the island you stay.
Here's a couple of Links which may help -

http://ciclomania.es/

http://www.cycle1st.co.uk/lanzarote/index.htm

great roads too