In 2009,
Levi Leipheimer won the Tour of California for the third consecutive year. It was also the year he launched his biggest post-retirement project: the mass participation cycling event Levi’s GranFondo. The event will return for its 15th edition this April and to mark the occasion, Leipheimer is shaking things up a bit.
"I’ve always wanted to make it a race," Leipheimer tells Velo. "I moved to Sonoma County purely because I fell in love with the roads. When I was training there for 22 years, I would dream about big races coming through."
