I broke my promise to post updates during Cascade. Sorry. I'm up in Vancouver BC right now for the BC Superweek races. I'm updating from a coffee shop, so this will have to be brief.

Anyone who's seen Cascade results obviously saw that it was a very close race. After 5 days and 6 stages, first and second were actually tied on time and the overall victory was determined based on stage placings. My teammate, Jeff Louder, ended up losing to Chris Wherry in the tie breaker. It was pretty disappointing for the team, but it was still a great race. Personally, I had a rough first two days and basically took myself out of contention from the beginning. I started coming around on day three though, and after that I just rode as hard as I could for Jeff. It was tough to see it fall apart on the last day, but while I felt really badly for Jeff, it was nice to see my former teammate Chris Wherry get over the problems he's had all season to get a great win. It was definitely the best Cascade Classic of the five I've done so far.

As I mentioned above, I'm now up in Vancouver for a few days of racing here. Last night was the Tour de Gastown in the old downtown Vancouver waterfront. It's always a very well attended race and last night was no exception. It was a pretty uneventful night for me, but Kirk O'Bee won the big crowd prime and finished third on the night, so not bad for the team. A three day omnium starts out in Delta on Friday. I'll try to report more on that.