1/25/10

Sitting in the airport . Our flight is delayed from the Bahamas and we will miss our connecting flight out of FLA, UGHHHHH . Now for the race. First off let me tell you about the course. There were a couple of small climbs out there and a lot of fucking wind. The cross winds would play the defining roll today. These were 30+ mile an hour winds. The first lap was fast, there was a section that was about 2 miles long with a 500 meter climb when you first turn and a killer crosswind. I new this was going to be where the race was made. Then further in there is a double traffic circle like you see in the Tour but a lot tighter, which leads to a 3 mile tailwind stretch . On this section on lap 1 we were going 40mph !!! I was 53 /11 just holding the wheel in front of me when I see this yellow thing hit the ground in front of me it bounces and clips me half in the face and half in the helmet. I now have a Powertap tattoo on my forehead. Things settled in on the 2nd lap, I moved up to the front before the crosswind section and was top 15 or so . Garmin fucking drilled it up the hill and kept the pressure on all the way to the next turn. We were going so hard my eyes were rolling up into the back of my head. Midway down the road Floyd Landis tryed to muscle his way in front of me, I was on this big guy from FLA Velos wheel. I didn't let him in and kept him sheltering the wind for me NICE. When we got out of the crosswind there were attacks coming all the time, there were 15 of us left and the winning move was going to come out of this for sure . Floyd attacked and normally I wouldn't go with him for two reasons, one they will all chase and two I dont think I could hang in a move he was spear heading. I was in position though so I had to go. We got off for a bit but no dice. I will give props to the Bike Reg guy, he was in this move and had the strength to go with the next one which was the move. Garmin had the guy they wanted up there and that was it . Then to my shock everyone sat up. We rolled at 15 mph in the same section that we went 40 in the last lap. I was talking to a few guys with multiple riders and they didn't want to keep it going. I was like fuck me after all that they want to sit up know . Then the rest of the field caught us and I think we went even slower. We went so slow the 3/4 and Masters field caught us. The marshall moved that field through and we went like 10mph for like 5 miles. E just rolled off the front at this point with a few guys in tow and got a nice gap. I was thinking you never know they might just let them roll off never to be seen again. No such luck they started to chase, as we hit the double circle section a dickhead about 2 guys in front of me fucked up the corner and three of us had to turn down the wrong road or hit the curb. We were chasing at 33mph for a couple of miles an the field was pulling away , there was nothing we could do. That was that for the three of us . We roll into the start finish and called it a day I wasn't about to do the lap of shame to say I finished. E hung tough he really rode well all weekend. He had a nice shoulder bump with a guy trying to muscle in on him (Mike would be proud !!!) Now for the best part , Robyn is in 2nd overall in the woman's race and looking good going into the last lap. The woman that was in 3rd made the pack of masters and 3/4 and was way up the rode so she was racing for 3 now . She wanted to come in top 3 so her goal would be met if she stayed with the girls she was with. She came through the finish and turned around rode by E and I , we were like what was that? Then this chick starts to yell at her. We were dumbfounded she was swearing and threatening Robyn . This was right in front of the officials. Me and E stared to get in the bitches face to see what the problem was. The asshole was mad that Robyn came in 3rd and she didn't. She had crashed the first day as did Robyn, but she didn't get back on, but Robyn did . It was getting ugly and people were telling us that this bitch does it in every race. One guy was like shes a peach isnt she ? Everyone laughed we ended up riding away from her to watch Robyn on the podium. She was riding around in the parking lot for like 10 minutes yelling, we got Robyn's money and rode back to the hotel. Robyn rode her first century, so it was a big day for her .


Photo : hose bitch from hell . I bet she'll make some guy really miserable some day .