The month of November is usually the time for the teams to start to prepare for the next season. That is the case for the Colombia team which will host its first team gathering this week in Bogota.

We are still one-and-a-half month away of January 1st, 2015, and two months of the new year’s debut, set to happen once again in Argentina, at the Tour de San Luis, but the new season is already knocking on Team Colombia’s door. Confirmed and new athletes will gather this week in Bogotà for a three-day session focused on physical tests, bike fitting and next season’s schedules.

General Manager Claudio Corti, along with some technical and medical staff members, landed  in Bogotà on Monday November 17th, while from November 18th to 20th, fifteen out of seventeen team riders (the exceptions being Brayan Ramirez, taking part in the Juegos Centroamericanos with the Colombian National Team, and Leonardo Duque, who is based in France and will meet the staff in Italy in the next few weeks) will assemble at Coldeportes’ Centro de Alto Rendimiento in Bogotà to undergo the ritual physical efficiency tests and – particularly for the new athletes – the bike fitting sessions on the new Wilier Triestina Zero.7, operated with the Retul system, Team Colombia’s partner in 2015 as well.

“It will not be an actual training camp as the working schedule for those days will be very intense," General Manager Claudio Corti explained. "Nevertheless, it will be an important moment in the new season’s set up: a valuable chance to know each other, and start talking about next year’s programme.”