The weekend brought some all out racing for us here in Missouri. With the TT behind us, everyone had nothing to lose and everything to gain. No one was content to give Garmin an easy ride either, and I felt for them suffering on the front as I have been in that position many times.

The attacks were relentless, and the tactics were questionable at times. Garmin was not happy to let anything go too far, so breaks never really got more than a minutes advantage. So we raced and raced some more. On Saturday we averaged 48kph for the stage and in Sunday’s circuit race, with many turns and hills, we still averaged 43kph at the end of the day.

With our overall hopes dashed after the TT some of our focus moved towards the upcoming World Championships. The Michaels and I added on 50 kilometers after the stage Saturday to cover a distance close to the Worlds.  Even though we are racing hard here everyday, the stages are only 180 kilometers, so its important to do some longer rides as the Worlds is around 265 kilometers. At the World Championships we will have not even started racing at the 180 kilometer mark!

Now we must say fairwell to a few of our teammates as there is a big change over in our team for next year and we will for sure miss all of them. We have raced so well as a team over the last two years that it will be very strange to be racing against each other next year.