Tour of Utah Stage 1

Yesterday was simply a long day. Up at five on the road at seven, down I70 through Grand Junction and into Provo at four. Then it was hurry up and wait. Our race started a little early at 7:40pm.

The crit was tight with eight corners in less than a mile and was fast for that type of course at 28 miles and hour. The race went well, there were a few breaks right off the start that I chased down, then Mike and Whitey went to work taking some primes. With 7 laps to go a few more breaks went and I went back to work. I pull the breaks back and stayed at the front driving the pace keeping the field single single file until two laps to go and the final positioning started for the finish. I was spent and just sat in the group while Mike and Whitey did their job by getting back to the front and taking 3rd and 6th in the sprint.

There was some downers though, the whole reason we came to Utah was for the money, but they started to back out of their promises of money and saying that there were typos in the race bible and there wasn't really any money on individual days, that really got us down since we were sitting to get some good money. But we are here now so we will just keep racing and doing our jobs. Today is a cuircut race at 6pm for an hour and a half check back tonight or tomorrow for another update.