Complete course details are out for the tour of California, here's the stage into San Jose. It's going to be ALL HILLS. Pig Farm, Momma Bear, Happy Valley, Pinehurst, Redwood, Seven Springs, Palomares, Calaveras, Sierra. I'm thinking they've gotten a bit too excited as there's basically no hill they left out. Whoever wins this stage deserves big props.

I rode Sierra this morning with new eyes, it went by pretty quick but I couldn't find a place to recover, there's little shelves where it levels out for 50 feet at the most, basically if you attack (which you must) and don't have it you are really going to pay for it when the grade goes up and then up again.

Click on the "upcoming races" link at right for more information.