I've got 6 weeks until I get to head over to Italy - woohoo! I had a great spring riding the MTB, and now I am pretty focused on riding the road bike - at least until flagline is open, then I might ride the mtb again for a day or two. But right now - I'm all about getting some climbing miles on the road bike. On Sunday I got to ride with my friend kevin. We rode up to Mt B, down to Sparks, back up to Mt B, down to the flat section of the Sunriver cutoff, and back up towards MtB. It wasn't very far, about 66 miles or so, but we got 5000 ft of climbing. I know I can just stay on Awbrey Butte and get a whole lot of climbing, but I prefer the longer climbs (not necessarily good at them, but I prefer them) where I can get into a rythm, and zone out a little bit.

The Cascade Classic seemed like a good event. Ed, Eric and Brian were kicking ass in the crit. I know Eric got third, but I guess they had issues with the timing and couldn't figure out how to score the masters races, so they just decided not to even bother trying to score the crit past the top 3. So I'll just pretend that Ed and Brian got 4th and 5th. Good job guys. I haven't seen the reults from any of the other races.

There are a bunch of National Championship races going on the week here in Bend - good luck to all of those riders. Seems like Bend is bustling with riders even moreso than usual.

Did I mention how #%@*ing hot it is? We got up to 92.5 here yesterday - IN THE SHOP! No AC sort of sucks. Pray for a cold spell!