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The next phase of Tejay van Garderen’s life is about to begin. The past few weeks, however, he’s simply been able to enjoy not being a professional athlete for the first time since his teens.
“I’d say I’m still in that honeymoon phase of, ‘Yeah, let’s have fun and I don’t really have responsibilities,’” Van Garderen told The Aspen Times last week, “but I’m going to start working again with the team, being a coach and being a director. That’s going to pick up here pretty soon. It will probably be back to reality in a little bit.”