Ted King

Back from injury, Ted King shares his experience of a mammoth ride along the Californian coastline.

Ted reports in from his team's winter camp in Sardinia

Mind-reading in wine country

It's a torn Ted King that visits home in October. Some time away from the bike would be welcome, but the roads in New Hampshire in October pass through 'a seemingly impossible explosion of colors.'

A grateful Ted King, winding down his season, gives a final push toward the finish line and the world championships.

Final Approach. Something about flying into a town stirs nostalgia and excitement for pro cyclist Ted King.

Summer camp pro-cyclist style involves long days in the saddle, the Tour on TV and ... chocolate bananas?

Ted returns to the U.S. for some post-Giro R&R and reports on how he found the state of domestic cycling

On the Giro's second rest day Cervelo's Ted King takes some time to define some new additions to the Giro d'Italia vocabulary.

If there's a single lesson to be gleaned from the Giro d'Italia, it is to expect the unexpected.

It's not the volcano that's making Ted's ears ring, it's the church.

In a report from a grueling Paris-Nice, Ted says he's proving Albert Einstein's theory about repetition and insanity.

Another foggy winter day in Girona, and Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King contemplates why so many cyclists migrate to the Spanish town.

Cervelo's Ted King rejoins his second family at a team training camp in Portugal.

It’s staring at me from across the room. We all know the feeling when we’re being watched, ... and it’s happening right now.

A jet lagged pro gives tips on how to kill time in Frankfurt at 2 a.m.

Everyone has his own way of killing time on the lengthy drive that we've just begun to the start of stage 6.

Ten-lane highways. Venti. And of course, the mere fact that there exists something called a Triple Baconator. There’s no getting around the fact that seemingly everything is bigger in America. This is noticeable the moment I got back on home soil, since the list of “everything” includes the two-hour wait I slogged through immediately after landing while creeping through customs.

Everyone's favorite 1965 Charlton Heston film, in which he stars as Michelangelo tirelessly painting 12,000 square feet of the Sistine Chapel, takes place in the Vatican City.

Video: Lance Armstrong interviews Ted King at the 2009 Giro

With 18 stages now logged in the books at this year's Giro d'Italia I'm finding my creative juices running a bit dry. After the last rest day, this final week is slightly strange since it's only five race days and features yesterday's mere 83km stage and Sunday's concluding 15km time trial. So it's tough not to peek towards the light at the end of the tunnel, but like a good grand tour rookie, I'm still taking it just one day at a time.

Bike races are a circus-like spectacle best witnessed firsthand. This is especially apparent at a race the size, caliber and prestige of the Giro d'Italia. Obviously the cyclists whizzing by at breathtaking speed and the unique dynamics of the races themselves are fascinating, but to experience the race caravan is like taking a stroll through the Vegas strip.

Simon Gerrans won yesterday's stage 14 of the Giro! At our hotel last night, there were fireworks, there was dancing, the champagne was flowing, and music was blaring! Of course I think this has less to do with Simon's win and more to do with the wedding reception at our hotel last night. In fact, it's worth pointing out that the music made sleeping difficult between the hours of 11pm through 2am, and the cannon like fireworks seemed a bit excessive. But I'm sure that everyone at the wedding party had a great time and the Giro d'Italia was the last thing on their minds.

I'm going to start by tooting my horn a bit here and saying that I'm a fairly handy time trialist. Furthermore, I'm lucky enough to be riding the finest, fastest, and one of the most heavily sought after time trial machines on the market, the Cervélo P3. That might stir up a lot of questions to the tune of, "Hey when are you going to get the P4?!" Well that's for me to know and you to find out.

After being in Italy for a week and a half and with eight days of racing completed here at the Giro, I've noticed a thing or two. In fact, based on this list I've compiled, I've noticed at least ten things.

To start, it might be worth pointing out that these entries are being written via BlackBerry, so I apologize for their sometimes-rambling nature.

This year, Ted King is making his professional European racing debut with the upstart Cervélo TestTeam.