Redlands is in the bag, and it went from good to really bad in the space of
five minutes Friday. I had a great opening TT, got on the podium, felt good
for more, and then on Oak Glen flatted with 15 K to go, chased back on, okay
try and recover, salvage something out of this, literally 30 seconds in the
pack flat #2 hits and it's game over. Chase back on again, and all I'm good
for is passing off my H2O bottle to someone who really needs it.

The Crit went okay, and then sunset was a huge sufferfest for all involved,
just tons of animation and I wanted to go for a break, tried like 10 times
but HNBPM for some reason didn't want me to ride so Jackson countered and
the break immediately went. Oh well. Rode around in big fat hilly fast
circles, got popped, chased back on and then got popped again, this time
with everyone watching on the finishing circuit.

I also did a primary school class presentation this morning down in Palm
Springs which was great and it's fun to see a bunch of 8 year olds getting
into cycling and wanting to know more. Lots of questions going around like
"what's your bike's name?" and showing off scars which the boys liked but
the girls thought were gross.

Anyway now that I'm home I can update more often and I might even be able to
take the computer with me next time so I can update on the road.

Cheers, BJM