My schedule for the rest of the season is Mt. Hood, Philly maybe, Nature Valley, Fitchburgh maybe, C

contract with Navigator's Insurance, and this year is racing for the Health Net Pro Cycling Team . He'll be contributing regularly to GamJams, beginning with updates throughout the week on the Tour de Georgia.
It was a crazy stage today, weird and wild stuff. For just over 90 minutes there were constant attacks. I dont mean attack settle down then attack again. It was attack, chase, field get strung out single file, break comes back, attack again and over and over again. Nothing would stick. I could feel the collective sigh from the field as another move would go and we would have to chase after it. There were even a few times where a move would go, get a gap and it would look like it would stick and then a couple guys would jump out of the field to get across and guys in the field would yell at them or whistle in hopes that they would sit up just so we could have some damn peace.
Two things happened. Health Net-Maxxis rider and Mr. KOM Frank Pipp went off the front super hard and just a few seconds later my other teammate Corey Collier crashed hard after his front wheel went into the seam in the road.
A Slipstream rider went down too and has a bad head injury and is in the hospital now. This crash which a good part of the field saw made the field sit up so the riders who went down could rejoin. After a bike change Corey did get back up to the group but he was cut up pretty bad. He looked shell shocked to say the least.
As we got towards the finishing circuits which one guy said was like a mountain bike race, the break came back. We went up and down some tough kickers in this neighborhood and Rory got away building up to a 15 sec gap. He ended up with the Most Aggressive Rider award.
I've been talking to Myron from NCVC and I want to try and make it back to DC for Poolesville but it will be difficult. And it would be nice to think that I could just come back there and roll over on everyone but the truth is I doubt that would happen. The Harley guys have some good depth and I can see them getting amped up for Poolesville.
Matt, great reports, makes us old Cat 3 s realize that racing is racing...seems it s the same whatever the level!! When you are not in a race block, I was wondering how much time per week you spend training?
difference is with my training or any good pro is that we generally go very deep-- like not only quality but good quality. its one thing to go thrash yourself and be worked from a ride but unless that ride actually means something and has a goal to it than really yer just flogging yourself for the sake of flogging yourself.
Thanks for the answers, Matt...I watched a bit of the TTT today on the computer, saw your team and the Marco Polo team, although it was a fairly peninsula hotel hong kong short TTT, it looked painful peninsula hotel hong kong :-). What do the next few months look like in terms of your race schedule?
i do not periodize im sure that spelled wrong but...I dont do it. long miles in the winter peninsula hotel hong kong and then just start building form by doing more and more quality. Stage racing helps build form too. I know thats hard to do unless you fly all over and do lots of racing but long training camps or trying to do a four day weekend be a decent substitute.
My schedule for the rest of the season is Mt. Hood, Philly maybe, peninsula hotel hong kong Nature Valley, Fitchburgh maybe, Cascade, Tour of Utah, Colorado Stage Race, and US Pro road race champs. There will be a few others for sure maybe a DC area one and I will try and do the Mt. Evan Hill Climb.