ValueAct teammies HB Banks and Hot Sato say warming up is fun.  I prefer to just take pictures. 

Devon Vigus from Strawberry Giant will not leave his clothes on.  I don’t get it, but atleast he leaves them on during races (usually).

Whoever can guess who’s booty this is gets a big huge Yellow Bug prize.  I’ll give you one hint: it’s not mine;)

On the women’s side, international power house Ina Tuetenberg launched attack after attack after attack.  High Road’s also got some women that look an awful lot like Ina on a bike these days, so it was a little tricky for me to tell them apart.  Cover cover cover, finally one stuck and I could see Blue Diamonte Sato up there pedaling away – phew! So we all chilled out in the pack, Colavita road some tempo stuff and I tried a couple attacks towards the end to try out some tricks.  Finally Colavita and Tibco set up some powerhouse trains for the lead out and I managed to pop around most of them for second in the field sprint and 8th over all with the Sato finishing third behind Ina and Brooke M!  So we had Sato on the podium, prize money, burritos and some rootbeer to round out the afternoon. 

And of course there was the cycling tragedy yesterday with Kristy and Matt, making it so all this was just nothing when your friends are . . . are what . . . are gone.   This event is so tragic, it hurts me, it scares me, and it just makes me plain old sad. 

I just got off the phone with my friend and off-road monster cyclist Dan K Harris and when we said good bye he said something that made sense:

“We got this life to live, you gotta keep living it.”

And so that’s what I’ll do.