Yeah, that’s right.  I like it so much here, I might just move in with my host mom and dad.  So the race weekend went like this:

Saturday we were like practically the star event at an Anniston Children’s Festival.  Or something.  The kids were so enthused about us, I only had to beg these girls 5 times for us to get our picture with them.  They don’t look really happy to be seen in public with us spandex queens.

Well while we were at this kiddie event, I decided now would be the best time to get over my snake-a-phobia.  Taitt is a snake charmer in a prior life, while I am about to pee my lulu pants.  I had a funny feeling about this situation and its a good thing I got the heck out of there, because not 2 minutes after I forcefully screamed at the snake man to get that thing off me did old Uncle Python drop some huge snake doo-doo on the next victim who was about 8 years old and handled it alot better than I would have.  Elis, are you proud of me?

Now on to the really important stuff.  The races.  Well I raced super aggressively for the break-aways (in my opinion) because of the strong history of breaks on these courses.  While I was seeing double from riding kamakazi  for the breaks, Lara K had some good finishes for 10th on Sat. and 6th on Sunday and I did manage to rake in a little extra money in the finish still, but not the thousands of sweet mulah dollars I was hoping for.

And now on to even more important stuff.  This has got to be one of THE HOTTEST BOOTIES in the men’s peloton (I mean, aside from Roman but if I posted his it would be way too obvious).  I would really like to post some women racers (or even directors) but I think they would come and kick my ass when they saw the pics up on this site.  C’est la vie.

Finally, this dingleberry on the right was desperate to get his picture with lil old me, so I said “Ok.  Maybe.”  I mean, I did get 17th place today.  I can’t blame the guy. 

Just a quick post here . . . so proud of my teammies in Gila!  Leah Goldstein won stage one and the team successfully defended her jersey yesterday!

Yesterday was the travel day from hell for me.  Took 15 hrs to get from SF to Atlanta and I still haven’t made it to Alabama yet.  Spent the night at a motel near the airport by my lonesom, the other girls are coming to get me as I write.  Yippee for teammates!  Interesting to note is the housecleaner must be a Shania Twaine fan as she has been singing her “Looks Like We Made It/Still Together” or whatever its called at the top of her lungs all morning.  Between you and me here, I don’t think she has a career in vocals. 

I am starved from all this travel on a diet of Powerbars and I hope hope hope that the girls are willing to make a quick stop at the Waffle House down the street for me!  I need to refuel and get energized for these crits this weekend, I am feeling like I got run over by a semi-truck this morning.