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                    Its been a while since my last update and a lot has happened!  The team raced very well at the Calville Bay Classic where all three of us were able to place in the top 5 in an event.  I was pleasantly surprised with how I raced with it being late February I had little expectations for myself.  After the race was over Jeff Perrin and I checked out the Vegas scene on Sunday night.  We walked the strip and had dinner in a nice Italian restaurant in the Cosmopolitan.
                 The next morning we started the drive to Palo Alto which was about 8.5 hours.  We had 2 days in Palo Alto before heading to Merced for the Merco Grand Prix.  I was hoping to be able to test my fitness in this race but unfortunately I was crashed out on the first day just 11km into the 132km race.  My shifter broke in half and for some reason all the support cars just drove past me so I caught a ride in the sag-wagon back to the start.  The next day David Benksoski and I headed back to Palo Alto for some training before leaving for the Madera stage race late the next week.
                   My bad luck continued at Madera with my seatpost slipping all the way down in the second time trial due to a stripped bolt, this was followed by an ill timed flat tire in the road race with 20k to go with the pace picking up.  I am very hopeful that this string of bad luck will end before the San Dimas stage race and Sea Otter.
                 I am currently back in Palo Alto with my first week without a race in over a month.  This will give me a little over a week to get prepared for San Dimas.  I am living with my team mate David Benkoski for the next month until he heads to Belgium for 3 weeks for the first trip with the National team.