The Update....

So we have arrived in Canada for the Tour de L'Abitibi. We flew in from Pennsylvania where I competed in nationlas. I got 17th in the time trial, and fifth in the road race. There is definitly room for improvement in both of the races, but overall I had a pretty good time. So now I am back on the US National Team competing in another stage race. This race is seven days long with nine stages. There are ten or so national teams, ranging from the Dutch and the French to the Americans and the Japanese, as well as quite a few regional teams from America and Canada. There is a total of thirty teams here, with six members to each team. Tonight is the prologue in down town Val d'Or. It is not much of a prologue because it is actually only a four hundred meter sprint. The main point of this prologue is to put the caravan order in place. Tomorrow we have a road race in the morning, with a team time trial in the evening. It has been raining a lot over here so hopefully the courses will stay dry long enough to let us race safely.