There is solitude to these mountains. Tranquillity.
Away from the pressure of racing, the grind of team duties and the constant white noise of the world, Tejay van Garderen rides on.
All he can hear is the slick hum of his gears as they run from cog to cog, the metronomic draw of his breathing, and the autumnal breeze as it whistles through the snow peaked passes of the Rocky Mountains.
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A few hours later he is back in the valley, spinning his cyclo-cross bike through the small town of Basalt with a basketball under one arm, a Golden State Warriors jersey on his back, and Stephen Curry's name across his shoulders. This is Tejay van Garderen; the unplugged version.
"I'm a Curry fan, not a Golden State fan. I just wanna make that clear from the start," van Garderen says when he comes to a stop in Crown Mountain Park.
Basalt lies just under 200 miles from Boulder. Out west and along the seemingly endless Highway 70 as it meanders through the mountains. Like a blur, we drove past signs for Georgetown, Silverthorne, and Frisco until after almost half a day say behind the wheel we reached our destination.
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