Again, there isn't a lot to say about the stage today. Just like yesterday, it seemed that everyone in the field wanted to be in the break, so it took over an hour and a half before something finally got away. It was exhausting trying to cover moves for that long, and I think everyone was relieved when the small break finally got away. Predictably, the break was caught and the stage finished in a sprint. I finished midpack after narrowly missing a pileup just inside 1k. Scary.

I did make one particularly dumb move today. I'd had an empty bottle in my cage for awhile when I spotted a group of kids ahead cheering outside of their elementary school. Kids seem to like water bottles, so I figured it was a good place to jettison the empty one. I was in the middle field and started to throw it, but as I was doing so I had visions of knocking a kid in the head, so I checked my throw a bit to get to land in the grass in front of them. But it didn't even come close. The bottle bounced off of the back of a Symmetrics rider and landed back in the middle of the field. And I looked like an idiot. But what's new?

That's the best I could come up with for the day. Time for bed.