Team Astana leader Levi Leipheimer pedals through a kitchen corridor at the team's winter training hotel, the Embassy Suites, in Albuquerque. Astana — a team of cycling All-Stars including last year's Tour de France winner — is in town because of the elevation. Training at altitude provides an endurance advantage for riders after they return to sea level. Manager Johan Bruyneel also envisions opening an Albuquerque cycling academy in 2009.