The Whitman Women just took their 4th National Title in the Team Time Trial in Kansas this morning! Congrats to them and good luck to them in rr on saturday and crit on sunday! Also good luck to the men, ninth today.

Back here in Wenatchee we have the Wenatche Omnium Stage Race this weekend with a TT and Crit on Saturday and a RR on Sunday. I will be racing. But no one really cares that I'm racing. The Big Deal this weekend is that Tyler Farrar is racing! (Tyler & I were both WHS '02 grads) AND, guess what, he even passed me the other day when I was rollerskiing. It was the most exciting part of my ski. I don't think he recognized me though. Although I had the advantage in recognition because Tyler is the only one in Wenatchee cruising around in the full Cofidis kit and I was just wearing an old race t-shirt. So, since Tyler is back in Wenatchee recovering from a crash and on a short break from the pro scene, all the dudes around here who want to know how they measure up to the pro riders are going to be tempted to come over to Wenatchee to race Tyler this weekend. So it should be a pretty fast men's pro-1-2 race. Of course I have the utmost confidence in Tyler to annihilate anyone who tries to keep up with him.

The women's race might not be as exciting from my perspective. I haven't done any speed work on my bicycle since last summer and the Sad Truth is that you don't get fast at cycling unless you practice cycling fast.