crazy chaos

that about sums up the first road stage out here in minnesota. colavita certainly had some bad luck yesterday and bad timing with the bad luck. crazy cross winds and 2 miles of loose gravel (some tail swishing goin on) made for a hard day at the office

it was a killer wind with lots of open type roads and a huge 132 rider field. It's annoying how a promoter will boast about the size of a women's field. It's so large this year, blah blah blah. Great. the only reason our field is so large is because they let in the 3's. It does look good on paper but most courses lately are getting more technical to "challenge" the riders. some 3's just don't have the experience and skill level to be in some of these races. Certainly the philly organisers are guilty of that. They would never throw senior 3 men in a men's pro12 race would they??

anyway, just saying that could open a whole can of rotten worms but I don't have time to go on now, i have to get ready to leave for tonight's crit. thank god it's only 40min. but yesterday didn't go as we had planned, lots of crashes and mishaps. we'll make up for it in the next three days hopefully. there are a lot of tough women on this team.

gotta fly!