Another solo mission

Well, the boys took a licking at the Gila for the most part. Mart Santurbane has been going well all year and has been doing NRC/pro am events all year. He converted his good TT into a high 20's finish, but a cold spread through the team, Matt crashed and got the sickest of all, and Derik was feeling some effects of the bug and not enough training. And then of course there is the altitude and pro team tempo and power.

Our cat. 2's did awesome with a stage win and a 2nd as well, but the lack of neutral feed about killed the 3 of them, and killed Justin M. and Chris Stuart's chances that they had in their break that had 6-8 minutes on the field. All three required IVs post-race, but I guess Justin M. has an aversion to needles. That left him cooked for the duration I hear.

The line-up for Wenatchee was already tenuous, but now it is basically scratched from the team's programme. So, climber extrordinaire that I am, I am now "free" to ride my own race. What a joke! I have managed a top-10 in the Omnium in the past and have won the crit there before, so it isn't that bleak. I'll target the crit, do as good a TT as I can, and try to not get left behind to early in the road race. Maybe I'll attack from the gun again and get a head start? Why not?

Oh, my back. It is feeling much better. The massage was painful on Monday, but it was much needed. And now I am feeling the legs that I should have had at the state champs had I not had the back injury in the first place. Last night I finished the Oly club ride solo with a nice 1/2 minute gap, then rode strongly in our three trips up Tumwater Hill. The wind was brutal last night and I had to bridge a 20 second gap at one point that really was a test. Easily as hard an effort as in a race.

Hopefully it wasn't just the combination of Naproxin and the muscle relaxant I had taken!

I hope there is a good field over there now that it isn't the State Omnium. In the past not that many people did all three stages and the championship drew more people I think. So, another solo mission. 3rd week in a row. Hopefully guys will be rejuvenated for Enumclaw in 2 weekends.