Kind of tweeked from the UCI races on the West coast last weekend and all the travel back from New Zealand, but can’t pass up a big money, well run cyclo-x in the midewest. A two day race in it’s 2nd year with the biggest prize list of any cyclo-x in the US. The courses both days were great/hard. Sunday had a run-up that rivals Seattle. Saturday I wasn’t on and finished 3rd behind Chris Horner and Doug Swanson. Sunday I was having a pretty good day and was leading after about half the race, but flatted a clincher pretty far from the pit and lost a bunch of time that I couldn’t make up. Doug won over a superstar of the future, Bjorn Selanger, then Chris Horner, then me. Riding good is the point. Not the results always. As you can see by the photo, it is always a good time in Iowa City. The way all racing is supposed to be.

Big change of weather in just one week. Last weekend it was in the 20’s, this Sunday nearly 60. Decided to race because it was too windy to train, plus it was the State Championships. I’ve been feeling alittle under the weather the last week, so thought some hard efforts might jump start the latent fitness. Didn’t seem to. I won the race leading a Trek-Midwest sweep of the top 3 spots with Shad Smith and Adam Mills rounding out the top three. Hopefully I get going better before Nationals this weekend in Providence.