Have been pretty packed, so I apologize for not keeping you updated. To my horror I just realized that my last post dates back to memorial weekend so I’ll give you a short rundown of what has happened since.
The weekend after the State Crit we drove up to Tulsa for the Tulsa Tough omnium. Leo and I did the Pro/ 1 race while the rest of the guys did the 1/ 2 races. In hindsight it might have been better to help the others get some upgrade points in the 1/ 2 races as Toyota United showed up and dominated the races. All we could do was to hang on and that was about it. I hope my top 40 finishes were enough to get me some points for the US Crit series overalls (of which Tulsa was a part of) to get invited to the finals in Vegas at the end of the year. Both Leo and I have our sights set on that race and that was also the reason we did the Pro/1 race in the first place although we might have had more fun in the 1/ 2. Well, this weekend we’ll head down to Austin for the AT&T crit, which is also part of the Crit series so hopefully it will go better there.
After Tulsa I flew back to Phoenix one last time. Christine is done with school there and so I helped her move out and all that good stuff. It took us the better part of the week to get that done and then we decided to spend her last couple of days here in the States at the Camelback Inn Resort in Scottsdale, AZ to relax after all the stress. Those were some nice two days, floating in the pool and relaxing (in the process of which I drowned my cell… but after drying it out in the dry Phoenix heat, it turned back on… Nokia rocks!) but unfortunately they only lasted that long and I had to drop her off at the airport to let her fly back home to Europe.
The rest of last week I then spend with loading and unloading my van and driving the 1000 miles from Phoenix to Dallas with what little belongings I had left. It was endless drive but at least the van held up and I made it back to Dallas.
This past weekend I finally got back on the bike to race in the Matrix crits here in Dallas. It was hot and humid as always and the races were hard. I could tell that I had been off the bike for the better part of two weeks but still managed to hang in there and finish 11th each day; not what I had hoped for but not so bad considering everything else.
So, that’s it for now. This weekend we’ll be in Austin before some of us will head up to Colorado Springs for some good training for a couple of weeks. We are all looking forward to that so it should be a lot of fun.
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