Wow, so I fell behind on my blogging again... Sorry. The excuse this time: trying to plan our eight week road trip to Nationals in California in August. It was pretty stressful but we are finally on the road. First stop: Colorado Springs. We piled into my old van this past Tuesday and drove through the night to get here on Wednesday morning. The van was pretty packed: four bikes on the back, two inside together with stuff for eight weeks. On top of it, Will, Phillip, Corey, Peter and myself had to fit too.
We got some solid riding in, about 30 hours last week. We've got another week before we'll move on to Bend, OR to race in the Cascade Classics. Should be a lot of fun: racing for five days with some of the best riders in the country (Levi, Danielson and Co decided to show up...). After that we'll head on to Idaho for another of the US Crit series races and after that we'll finally make our down the coast to LA for Nationals. I won't be able to start there but it should be fun watching the others and lending as much support as I can.
But there also was a life before the road trip: the weekend before we left we were down in Austin for the AMLI AT&T Crit, also part of the US Crit series. It was pretty hard because I tried to get in a break. I was up there but unfortunately non of them stuck. So it came down to a sprint. I got stuck on the back stretch but still managed to come in 18th. Considering all, I was pretty happy with that. Unfortunately, it didn't go that well for some of the others: Will went down with five to go after some guys in front of him decided to tangle up on the straight and go down; fortunately, he only lost a little skin. Rachel wasn't as fortunate: she went down hard in the women's race and broke her collar bone. Very unfortunate, so shortly before Nationals.
Get well soon Rachel!
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