Yesterday was stage two of the Nature Valley Grand Prix and it couldn't have gone any worse for me. Actually, it could have gone allot worse becasue I didn't crash. Only a 58 mile stage so it shouldn't have been to difficult right. Wrong. At about mile 8 we made a left turn into a cross-tailwind. Health Net put it in the gutter and it was hang on as long as you could. I was hanging, then hanging some more, then SNAP! My legs felt like lead and I cracked falling off the lead group. Shortly after my group came to the only section of the course that I had been looking forward to all day, the 2 mile dirt road section. Guys were weaving all over and I ended up in the gutter. I worked my way to the middle and started hitting it hard cross style moving right up to the front of the group which at this point was only 10 seconds of the leaders. I was feeling comfortable again and moving up when I got a rear flat tire. I called on the radio for a wheel but Ken and "Jelly" were to far back because the field had been blown apart for so long and the riders were all over the dirt road. That was it. I was done for the day. I kept it buried and tried to catch back up but no one would work with me at all. I found myself in a group of guys that wouldn't do shit the entire way back. They wouldn't even rotate just to get back to the finish faster. It was so slow and so boring! I lost 8 minutes on the day and I feel cracked.
Frank Pipp had an awesome day finishing 4th in the sprint. He was right there and is tied with a Sierra Nevada rider for the sprinters jersey. Good job Pippsy! I hope I can hang in the crit tonight as I hear the race is super fast the whole time. Game on!
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