Stage 5

I "bumped" into a tree on about 20min from the finish today and though it feels like I did, somehow I didn't break my shoulder, collar bone, or anything else...though I couldn't be any less mobile.

What started as a play day ended up not being too bad...2nd on the stage and hopefully I can ride a bike on Thursday.

Sneedon is leading his home providence race on a stage that finished and later started in his home town. Cool.




Some of these starts kinda suck. Everyone wants to be a hero...can't they just relax?



I was really proud of Nat. I was trying to trick him by talking about beers...and he was able to do math. Maybe he can only do math because we were talking about beer.



Dre. He made a strong split early on of Seamus, Shep, Plaxton, and myself...big guy was climbing strong. So strong his bike couldn't handle the watts.



Seamus is going to China in August. He doesn't even seem to be trying in this race...but then again, he and Shep are on the the every other day program.



Trek guys. I like the Trek guys, but I like even more working them over. You won't see us initiating attacks when folks flat or at water stations or when exiting raging rivers...no names mentioned.



Props to Kona and their boys...but they're damn lucky we flatted on day two...though I suppose we all have our battles out there. Doesn't hurt when you grew up on the trails we're using, either.



whittling down things...with us having missed yet another turn, kona was gone...so we worked through traffic until none remained.