After a short stay in Santa Fe I went to New York for a week where I raced the Chris Thater Memorial Crit.  I felt good and it was playing out to be a good sprint finish for me until a couple riders cut me off in the last turn, where I lost the wheel of Erica Allar, who went on to win and left me out of the final group sprint.  It was a good experience though, and 13th wasnt the worst that could have happened.  I flew back to Santa Fe and have spent the past few weeks resting, training, working, and enjoying the unusually rainy days and nights of the southwest.  I’ve been trying to figure out my plans for next year in terms of work, team, where to live/base and a whole bunch of other things that bring on stress from uncertainty.  But I’m trying to just go with the flow and see what comes along and how things play out.
Today started another round of road tripping.  I drove from Santa Fe to Flagstaff.  Im in route to Las Vegas, NV for US Crit Finals which are on Thursday, 19 sept.  This will be the last road race of the year.  I have raced 56 road races so far this year and this will make it 57!!!  I am excited for this last crit as Ive found a real strength and have a lot of fun racing crits.
After I spend Friday in Las Vegas Im planning on driving out to San Francisco to visit a friend and then drive up to Bend, OR where my coach, Jaime, lives.  (if my poor little car makes it)  I’m going to race the cross crusade cyclocross series that goes from the beginning of october to the beginning of december.  Im happy to keep my fitness going and race some good competative races up in Oregon.