I am back from Missouri now.


That was such a great experience for the future. I learned a lot and had tons of fun.


I am trying to recover from a upper chest infection. I may have been racing with it, but it is hard to say. I leave Sat for a race in D.C. which should be a blast. After that I get a week to get ready for track nats, and the Vuelta Chihuahua which goes from oct 6-12 in the middle of Mexico.

Right now its all about spending time with the lady and enjoying a moment of relaxing.

Day 2 and 3


Day 2 was the longest the stage of the tour and I could for sure feel it. Even though there is no substantial climbing here, we did over 4000 feet of climbing. The circuit was really hard due to how sketchy and long the stage was. I tried to help Tyler as much as I could but missed out a bit in the final lap. I'd like to think I helped VDV out a bit by giving him a nice shove as he was coming back after leading it out from 1k to go, but I'm sure it didn't make much of a difference.


Day 3

OUCH!!! That hurt!

After getting time cut last year, I put down a fast half of the race and kept a hard tempo the second half to make for sure it did not happen again.

VDV absolutely killed it today and took the jersey. The rest of the is gonna be tough, but I'm ready to do work.


On the flip side. My roommate Blake crashed really really hard today around the fastest corner on the course. His tire blew out and he went off a steep embankment. All the details of how it all happened are still unknown, but I'm relieved to say he is awake and responding normal.He ended up with a concussion, a broken clavicle, cracked sternum, cracked iliac and lung contusions. Blake has been my roommate for the 2 races I have done with Garmin, for the rest of the week I'm going to be thinking of him and try to do some more work for him. Wish him a speedy recovery please.


Who knows if I will have enough energy the rest of the week after riding the front.

MIssouri Day 1


Everything went better than I had hoped. I had the legs to help Tyler stay safe and as fresh as possible. He ended up 2nd which is awesome, but we know we can get that first spot. We are all super motivated, and ready to do all the work needed to succeed.

Tomorrow is the longest day of the tour and the weather is supposed to be good, so that makes everything a little bit better. The legs feel better than they did before so that gives me an easy mind to sleep with.


Time for bed.

Tour of MIssouri


Holy CRAP!!! What an adventure! Last time I was here, it was a totally different. A different team, different teammates, different thought process, everything is nuts. Sometimes I catch myself a bit star struck from guys like Dave Z, The Pate, VDV. But they are just normal guys. Last year the team van smelt bad, and had trash all over it, but now I get to ride to the races in a tour bus the Stones would roll on. (okay maybe not that lavish but its still a huge tour bus) Something I am not all used too.

We did this awesome meet and greet at the Garmin headquarters today which was rad. That whole team of people is amazing and awesome to have behind us. The Q&A was awesome, bunch of laughs and great questions. Tomorrow we do a big group ride with 150+ employees, that should be a blast.

Two more days tell the action starts, I'm excited for it to all start.

Time for Space Legs!