Thanks for all of the emails and comments as a result of the last post. Adrienne and I made the drive from Portland to Atlanta in five days and arrived on Wednesday with no problems. But with four bikes on the roof, a heavily loaded trailer, and only a four cylinder Mitsubishi to move it all along, it was certainly slow going. This country's huge. It's easy to forget that when traveling around by airplane.

But as I said before, there's still some bike racing season left, so after only about 36 hours in Atlanta I was on the move again. Now I'm in suburban Chicago for a three day race in Elk Grove. We have a short time trial this evening, a road race tomorrow, then a criterium on Sunday. I haven't had much chance to test myself after coming back from China, but hopefully some rest did me good. This isn't the kind of race I'm likely to win, but some of my teammates certainly can. Hopefully I can be of some help.