Tavira Pro Tomás Swift-Metcalf’s Blog 
Volta ao Alentejo(0)
At the Volta ao Alentejo I spent the majority of every single stage on the front of the bunch controlling the race.
All four days.
Our sprinter was quite well placed to win the race, so I was quite happy to do this.
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Season Opening “2nd Trofeu Cidade de Luís” and the Volta ao Algarve(0)
Although my season started over a month ago in Argentina, the Portuguese season opened on Sunday the 12th February with the “2nd Trofeu Cidade de Luís”, followed by the Volta ao Algarve.
There were a few things that really limited me during this first Portugese race.
Tour de San Luis – Update(0)
A quick update from Argentina, and it’s a tale of bad luck and hard-going.
Tour de San Luis – Stage One(0)
Well, I’ve never seen anything like that…
Not the Tour of Britain, not even the “GrandÃssima” (Volta a Portugal). Maybe only the opening of the Tour of Spain in Seville a couple of years ago was up to the scale of this “small” event here in the middle of Argentina.
We are like rock stars here.
Tour de San Luis – prequel(0)
After an eight hour car journey, fourteen hours in planes and a lot of hanging around, came the bus ride from Mendonza to San Luis.
Mendonza is a wine producing region and is heavily farmed. For hundreds of kilometers there are well arranged crop and dispersed housing, like an endless suburb. It’s not picturesque.
Pre-season Chat and the Tour de San Luis(1)
My season kicks of in a few days at the Tour de San Luis in Argentina.
I’ve never been to Latin America, so I’m a bit apprehensive – Brits aren’t the most popular in Argentina, but it’s probably just paranoia on my part.
Introducing our New Blogger: Tomás Swift-Metcalfe(2)
Hi, my name is Tomás Swift-Metcalfe. Tomás is Portuguese, the Swift element is Irish, and Metcalfe is English. I’m a “Euro-mongrel”, but I’m very much at home in Portugal.
I race with a British UCI licence, not Irish or Portuguese, because I relate somewhat with the multicultural/multinational nature of the place.
