A nice morning in SLC, woke up on my own schedule (I slept in) and enjoyed
my coffee. I'm staying at the Fogarty's again, always a pleasure. Mike and
Krista have been so kind to me whenever I come, and it's been awesome
hanging out with the kids, Ryan and Megan are well behaved and pleasant to
be with.

I've been feeling strong and well in the last few weeks, no major hiccups.
I've felt open and able to push hard, my training data points to great form,
and you always expect a post-Philly openness. So when I put a number on my
back why the hell can't I race good? I've felt like I can go, but then
someone else just slams me and I can't recover. Is everyone else just way
better then me at the moment? Is it the altitude? IDK, but I got to start
racing well soon...

Tour de Nez: I suffered uncontrollably, and it was no fun. I dropped out of
the crit Thursday, just got ridden off. I felt much better Friday, but
couldn't go with the CO climbers at 8000 feet (no surprise there). Sat I
felt better yet, but this just meant I didn't get dropped. At least I could
do a little defending for Glen and Pete up the road.

Nevada City: What can I say? I was the go to guy for the team, everyone else
was hurting or sick, we started with five and only with three really able to
race the race. Pete and Tim hung especially tough, as they had problems. I
made the front group but had a bit of asthma in doing so and just suffered
around the course not really being able to go with any accelerations. I did
what I could and ended up last out of the group.

TT Natz: I think I'm a reasonably good TT rider, no specialist like Baldwin,
but I felt I had a good chance of repeating a top ten like last year and
maybe even going top five if I went well. No dice, I rode 46 KPH average
and still got beat by three minutes. I guess I'm missing a gear in every
section, I felt like I got a good rhythm but it was a slow one. I think I
didn't have the power to spin the higher cadences I needed, as the gearing
was good. It's one of those things where you think afterwards "what
happened?"

Moving on: I'm flying out this morning to NY and the Serotta factory, then
a twilight Crit in Rochester NY the home of Kodak. Fitchburg, Cascade,
Stupid week, 'Toona...