Today was indeed a long day. We loaded onto the bus for a 20km transfer to the stage start at 7:10 am and didn't get back to the hotel until 4:30 in the afternoon. And the bike race was hard. The limit for each team is five riders, and there are 18 teams, so that leads to chaos on a long day like today. Everyone wanted to have somebody in the break and no team was strong enough to control anything, so it was 220km of attacking. I sucked and missed the front split of 15 or 20 guys with about 100km remaining. At first I was the only Health Net guy who hadn't made the front group, but then Roman cramped up and came back to the group I was in. That left us with 3 up front, which was pretty good. Even still, no one could beat McLachlin and he won his third stage in a row. Garrett was second, but that's all I really know at this point. Luckily the rain stopped just before the stage started, so the day wasn't quite as miserable as it could have been. I really didn't want to race in the rain. Oh, and I didn't fall over today either. I'll hit a real milestone when I actually have more consecutive days without crashing than I had with crashes. One more to go.

Unfortunately I don't have anything more interesting to talk about for the day. All I did was race my bike and sit in a bus. My plan for the rest of the evening is to eat, get a massage, then go to bed. Boring. A beer would be great too if I can find one.

Here're some pictures that I took yesterday. I was going to post them yesterday, but I got kicked off the internet before I got the chance. That's all I have. Sorry to have wasted five minutes of your life with this.