Well Andrea and I have been a little slack on blogging as we are in a place of mucho wind, limited internet, intermittent cell service....well you get the picture. So just a brief update for now.....Stage 1 was point to point 77 miles from downtown silver city to the top of Mogollon. We managed to stay out of the wind and out of the crashes (one sent Kris Keim from Kenda to the hospital with a sacral fracture). We started the climb in great position and continued to climb at our own paces. At one point I found myself leading up the climb with a significant gap on Leah Goldstein from Valuact....she eventually caught and passed me to take the win while I held on for second and Andrea finished a strong fifth while still adjusting to the dry altitude.
Stage 2...Inner loop stage
Wow another day of broken bones and tons of wind (like 50 mph gusts). We again stayed out of the wind and climbed strong to find ourselves in the lead group of 19. A satifying break of 3 rolled off the front and stayed off the entire race. Our GC positions were never threatened so we stayed protected and safe. As we entered the finishing straight, a brief thought was given to leading Andrea out for the fourth place sprint, but since we had pulled the entire group for over a mile into a head/cross wind, we had to settle for 11th (AD) and 13th. We maintained our GC positions for another day! Tomorrow is the time trial and they are forcasting the wind to be only 10-14 mph...horrah!!! Shout out to Tyler Wren for taking the sprint in the men's field. The men maintained their overall GC positions with Anthony Colby sitting second.
Peace out from Silver (middle of nowhere) City we hope to supply photos tomorrow!
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