I am back from the cascade classic now. I was having a pretty good week until saturday when I had a asthma attack on the first climb 15k or so in to the race. I havn't had an asthma attack in a while so it was scary moment. As I was getting passes by the caravan cars I told Chann what was going on and he just relax and keep going. Relax is what I did, I was able to recover enough to ride back to the caravan and hand sling my way back to a group that made it back to the peleton after a long decent. After riding in the group for a bit my body just turned off. I dug a big hole while I couldn't breath and my body was pissed. I did everything I could to make it to the feed zone so I could make it home.

Bend is a really beautiful place and it was awesome place to be for a bike race. I wasn't mad after so much traveling to be in a place like that, plus my girlfriend showed up for a few days which was rad. Now I am back home taking a few days off the bike to let my body recover. I have about 3 weeks tell I start rolling again and start the traveling. First is Elk Grove in Illinois then back to Cali for U23 nats, and back out to Downers Grove for Elite crit nats.


If anything interesting or crazy happens I will let you know.

An update while I have a few min.

After Tour of PA I flew straight to Michigan for the UIV 3-Day. Being that MIchigan is not a very friendly bike community and the roads are not really conducive to ride on. I only road a few times that week and it was for a short time on the track. On friday my legs wern't so hot and the goal was to make the top 10 teams which was pretty easy to do. My legs felt better each day but my teammate had some bad luck and crashed twice and was not allowed to continue racing. I left Michigan feeling pretty good with my legs after a hard week before.

RIght now I'm in Oregon at the Cascade Classic getting it put to me in the Hills. So far the first two stages have gone by and Im still kicking enough to ride. Tomorrow is the TT and a Crit. The TT starts out with a up hill and then down hill to the finish, Im only nervous because Botero and Levi are flying and I hope the 25% time cut is enough.

Time for more R&R!