Nebo, Graduation, Washington, and Jaajuh.

I'm in Georgia right now for Nationals and the heat just feels great. Since the beginning of June I've done the Mt Joy RR where I finished 16th and the Mt Nebo RR where I finished 16th. Mt Nebo was a great race though. It was a really hard course and pretty much ran as a race of attrition. I stayed as far forward as I could and went as hard as I could when I needed to, but in the end I was slow up the finishing hill and finished where I did.

Nathan has been home also, to spend some time in the warmth before we came down here. I graduated high school and we went out to a really cool new restaurant called Mala Tang Sichuan Hot Pot.

This past weekend I did Washington County which was also a great race. I didn't do super good in the prologue, finishing 38th. In the RR, unfortunately I flatted on the first lap, got a bad wheel change for a wheel that only had three cooperative gears for me, and then missed the next turn. I got to within 45 seconds off the field, but after two laps of hard chase I just conformed to riding the rest mellow. It was a pretty course though and a nice place to ride so I didn't mind.

Day 2 went pretty well for me. I rode the time trial on my heavy powertap training wheel, since the timing didn't work out to borrow the TT wheels from Nathan. I put in a good effort though and finished 31st. An extra 30 seconds, which I could have gained from a disc wheel and even more if I had the front tri-spoke too, would have put me in the top twenty riders.

Feeling still pretty fresh from taking the RR easy, I went into the crit looking to put in my hardest ride of the weekend. I rode in the top five to ten riders for the whole race, following some attacks. With three to go, there was a lull and I hesitated to attack immediately so I got swarmed and ended up at the back of the pack. It was too late to move up and I was starting to lose steam so I played it safe and finished at the back of the depleted field for 25th place.