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Racing Poland
The Tour of Poland is now underway as we head out for the 2nd, and longest, stage of the race today. I am packing up as we are leaving our massive hotel-built from some Polish black money, no doubt-that is far removed from even the remotest village. I am not sure what would bring customers to this resort, or if they have ever, until today, filled the thousand rooms it probably contains.
Warsaw, and the surrounding landscape are dead flat, but after we finish today we will be in the foothills of some surprisingly big mountains that border Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It will take us some 250-kilometers to get down there on some boring roads, but the sun in shining and there will be plenty of fans waiting for us on the finish circuits.
Yesterday was a nice opening stage. Not too much stress and a good way to ease into the race. HTC-Columbia took control of the race from the beginning while every other team had some sort of excuse for not helping us. Seemed like every other sprinter in the race had some kind of issue and was on a bad day. Yet, when the finish came, lo and behold, everyone miraculously overcame their illnesses and was mixing it up in the sprint. A massive crash soon followed as we raced between narrow barriers at full-speed. Fortunately, I escaped unscathed and will be one of the lucky ones to start today with all of my skin.
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