After a nice long drive up to AT's pad in Lancaster, PA we jumped on the bikes for little ride. Great country riding in the heart of Amish territory. We went out for an hour or so and got to ride alongside of horsedrawn buggies, tons of dariy cattle, and sporatic batches of horse crap on the roads. The Amish keep their homes, yards and farms immaculate. The women were out working in the gardens and pushmowing the yards with non-motoried push mowers. Our ride was beautiful, windy, rolling back country roads, covered bridges...and more horse crap.We had 120 guys in the road race today. John and AT had ridden the course before, but it was new to the rest of us. Within the firist 4 miles we had a screaming 40+mph down hill with a kick to the left, then a right turn dead into a covered bridge with cover slats....going to be a long day. The field almost came to a dead stop, sliding left and right inside the bridge, then sprinted out the otherside. I could tell Harkey was behind me in the bridge freaking out at how sketchy it was. The race was fast and single file with a big kicker hill halfway through. Justin and John were active early, both bridging up to breaks that didn't stick. Harkey got in the final break of 15 and attacked 1K out, but got caught at the line and passed for 12th place.
Had a great meal thanks to team cheif John Delong. Chicken sausage, buffalo burgers, veggies, pasta, watermelon. Big thanks to Justin for washing the monster bugs (and horse crap) off the bikes and installing our new VETTA computers tonight. We are going to roll the team time trail tomorrow am, but not worry too much about it. Our goal now is to shoot for a win in the crit and let the GC work itself out.
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Great job in PA guys. I know it was some hard racing. I just have to know, how did Harkey like those braut looking things on the right side of the grill?
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