Gaimon to host Malibu’s first Gran Fondo in November

Watching the Tour of California, you might have wondered about fans dressed as cookies chasing riders up Gibraltar Road on stage 3, but if you follow Phil Gaimon, a regular VeloNews contributor, you probably guessed that he was behind it. Well-known for his love of cookies, Phil is putting on a cookie-themed Gran Fondo this fall, and his friends were on site for some combination of heckling, partying, and guerilla marketing for Phil’s Fondo on “Cookie Corner.” We asked Phil to tell us more about the event.

Question: Why Malibu?

Phil Gaimon: Every time I tell someone that I live in Los Angeles, they ask how the hell I can train in a town known only for traffic and movie stars. The truth is that I’ve ridden all over the world, and I can’t say L.A. is the very best, but it’s part of a 20-way tie for a climber like me. Just north of the city, you’ve got the Pacific Coast Highway with the ocean on one side and a ridge of mountains on the other. There are tons of tiny roads up and down that ridge, with Mulholland on top — this twisty, beautiful road where they film every car commercial. You …

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