what a strange race. A split of 45 go off on the first lap, with three of us in it, but that's not to a few team's liking so it comes back. then, a split of 50(!) goes the next lap and somehow that's cool with everyone and they gain 7 minutes. all we can do is wait for the reaction of CSC and Lotto, as Bobby and Fred have missed the move of the day, they get it back to under two minutes, but i think they were impatient as the 9th time up the wall it went hard but only got rid of the workers and the gap goes back out as the hitters look at each other.

10th time i was hurting but knew it was go time so i just left it in the big ring and said to myself "if you have it, you're going to need to push this up the hill this time." sure enough, it was live and Freddy went from the bottom, caused a split of five with Glen in it, but the tactics still made it negative and it all came back. I was in the hurt shack on the small circuits and couldn't follow when Freddy finally went across on lemon hill, not for lack of trying it's just a matter of 150 miles already ridden getting the better of me.

Yeah I'm bummed as i wanted to get a better result, but i've never raced Philly in the heat before and the race was so different from the previous few times i've been there. chalk this one up in the experience collumn.