Chocolate milk at SuperWeek

The races here don't start until 6pm everyday. So you race that night, get in bed around 10 or 11, depends on how far the race is, sleep until you wake up, watch the Tour, go for a 1-2 hour ride in the mornings, come home, shower, eat lunch, pack the car, and do it all over again. Chocolate Milk, is my recovery drink.

So now for yesterday's Race in De Pere, A suburb of Green Bay. It was a new course, very tight with all fast corners. A hair over 1k around. It was like a rectangle, but one end had a 200m straight away, the other, you almost didn't have to pedal through. So 4 corners in total.

My legs felt like wood the first 80 laps. My Jetfuel Coffee teammate Ryan Roth was being very attentive at the front trying to make the split, but had no luck. There was a few moves that would look like they'd stick, but none of them did.

With 10 laps to go, I kinda got a "second wind" I went off the front with 4 guys, they were messing around, so I left them behind, did about 3 laps solo 20 seconds ahead of the pack and about 25 seconds behind the break of 5 or so guys, who were also about the same distance behind the lead group of 7 or so guys. So as you can tell, the race was blowing apart, with only a main field of maybe 30 guys. I was soon joined by 3 more riders, 2 of which we dropped a few laps later and with 4 to go we got caught by the pack. I wasted no time, and launched on the far side of the road and went again, taking 2 guys with me, we caught the next group on the road in front of us on the line, so we were not able to sprint past them. We needed another 200m and I'm sure we would have caught them sleeping. In the end I was 17th. it was a very hard fought 17th place that's for sure. So for now, 2 days off. then 2 more days on.