Tour of Missouri was awesome and Kansas City is a pretty cool place, but now I’ve ben sick in bed all day.  Feeling under the weather yesterday when I woke up but I still felt like racing cuz I had already flown to Missouri for just one day to race after racing in Michigan over the weekend.  Just talked to the nurse on the phone and I’ve got all the symptoms of strep so hopefully some antibiotics will kick this real fast but who knows?

So Kansas City . . . I was envisioning lots of cow n stuff but what I found was a vibrant down town and lots of cycling fans.  I thought the race was fast-ish at times but definitely not quite fast enough to get us single file in the last few laps so scrounging for position I rolled in 10th place.  I had not realized so many women bike racers hailed from the area, and with the enthusiasts of Kansas City plus the relatives of Kansas Citian Kelly Benjamin, we had a great crowd for the first Women’s Tour of Missouri.

The race promoters put us up in the Embassy Suits a few blocks from the course and we also got racer gift bags with lotions, earrings, and other Kansas City products.  Hands down the best race promotion for women I have ever seen, and I know many people in town worked hard to make it happen.

Brooke Miller won the sprint in her new stars and stripes skin suit . . . suprise suprise.  Overall, it was an awesome race and I was very happy I made it out to Missouri, sore throat and all. 

(And PS . . . Kansas Citian is a real word, I looked it up)