The final circuit race here in China finished up a couple hours ago and Tyler managed to hold onto his lead. As we hoped, there were enough teams interested in the sprint that we didn't have to work all that hard to keep things under control. Alex Rasmussen of Denmark won his fourth stage, and all five of us finished without incident. That was a long ten days.

Now we get to celebrate here in Xining before flying to Beijing tomorrow. I'll have about 24 hours there before flying home late Tuesday. I'm hoping to make it to the Great Wall, but I'm not sure if it'll work out. I'll get the better of the pictures posted here after I get back. Thanks for the comments and emails since this thing started.