The last day of the AVC was ok- not great.  Jeff Hopkins and i won the madison easily, which is to say we started to flick each other all over the track.  he was tired and trying to conserve energy for the Keirin, so he wanted to “win as easily as possible” which meant for me not to try to take a lap.  so jeff had a big battle for the first sprint which he won but then he told me the next sprint was mine.  well, that didn’t work out so well- he got thrown in with two to go and had to do the next sprint…..and the next.   he went pretty all out for the first three sprint and was gassed.  so this is when he turned the tables, he started missing exchanges.  first i was in for three laps, then four.  it wasn’t as bad for me cause i just had to take half lap pulls- but from the outside it was pretty funny.  “are those two guys TRYING to screw each other?”

any way-we won which is nice cause i like getting roughly $600 an hour for bike riding. 

thats me looking stupid- making myself not seem so short….i think. 

after that came the Points race.  i can’t blame anyone but myself here, I overestimated my strength.  I thought i could get away with racing a gear 2 inches bigger than everybody else.  the thinking was that what i’d lose in acceleration i could make up with taking laps. any way that didn’t work.  i watched 6guys counter some of my moves and take off.  damn.  once they lapped i had some opportunities and took off with 20 laps to go thinking i could get a lap.  i was not to be.  i got points here and there but never really sprinted for any- a 3rd here, 2nd there.  in the end i only lost by 11 points, and had i sprinted the last four sprints i could have had a shot at winning.  i’m an idiot.   

after that (aka this week)  the boys are down in bend racing cascade.  i think Nydam is in the climbers jersey, after being in the early break.   also that tour thing is on TV 17 times a days, which is nice. 

also some A-hole construction guys said they were turning off the water today between noon-3pm for road maintenance.  well it was off when i woke up at 8:30- and yet hours later i still have to poop.