50 miles, 16 laps with a hell of a climb at the end of the lap, 16 times up a leg burner. This race is hard, I think it might be the hardest day, at least for me. It is flat out most of the time and then you have to climb 1k up a steep hill. The race was ripping fast, nothing really to dramatic, just some serious power put down to get over that hill every lap and man, it hurt! Then it would go single file for probably 1 mile of more. I was looking to survive and help Jacob make up some time on the GC. He got in a nice late race move that ALMOST stuck. Straub and I did some peleton maintaince while Jacob was up the road. The name of the game in this race is to arrive at the last corner before the hill in top 15, makes life a heck of a lot easier, I was able to do that a few time and it helped me to keep my legs for getting up the climb. Last lap was fast and we hit the finishing climb and it went fast. I finished with same time at and lost nothing which is cool, I remained in the same position on GC and Jacob moved up a spot or 2 and now sits top 15. Basically, FLSR is almost in the books. Not what I had hoped from me, but I learned a lot about my fitness and myself which is cool and we raced good as a team. Would be awesome to roll to one of these stage races with some heads.

The Cat 4’s are doing some serious damage with Chris DeCarlo claiming the mountain top finish yesterday and today staying out of trouble in the circuit race,  Seam M is holding on to 5th overall just a few seconds down from 4th,  there will be a BATTLE tomorrow on the crit course,  look for Sean and the boys take a podium spot!  Ryan Smolko and Erik Mitchell are representing hard in the 3’s,  while Kristine, Sara and Bianca are holding it up in the circuit,  Bianca had one hell of a ride in the Women’s pro/1/2 race and finished with a very select front group.  Mad props!

Peace.