Tim To Hit The Road Again

3/1/07

Balanced Bodywork and Massage of Lake Placid's co-owner Tim Chien is going on the road again this spring. He'll be working with the Advil/Chapstick professional women's cycling team as well as the Colavita/Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light women's team as they compete in spring races in California. This reprises his duties from last year, where he and his partner Shelley LaPorte helped the Colavita/Cooking Light team to a very successful spring campaign which saw them garner several wins, podium finishes in every race and to go into the middle of the season leading the National Racing Calendar points classification. Team rider Tina Pic won the series overall.

Tim will again juggle duties as soigneur for the teams, mechanic and occasionally filling in as team director. Soigneurs provide massage therapy for the riders, nutrition during and after races, and assist the riders with preparations for racing. Mechanics maintain the machines, and the director devises strategy and dictates tactics during a race. Tim brings his experience from providing massage therapy for athletes at the Ironman, local events and Balanced Bodywork and Massage, bike mechanics at High Peaks Cyclery and 20 years of bike racing around the region to the teams.