I’m not a fan of writing complaints on my website.  I’ll naturally avoid writing blogs when I have nothing positive to write.  The last time I wrote I getting in gear for Philly.  Lancaster and Reading both went pretty well for me, placing 11th and 10th respectively, but Philly didn’t go my way, although it was good for the team.  Beauce started off good and ended great with Valeriy winning overall and my 3rd place in the crit, however the last two days overshadowed the other success.  On the penultimate day, I was hit by a car and the final day I clipped my pedal in a corner crashed myself out of the race.  Nationals didn’t go well, then I took a break.  During this time our contractor decided not go out to the site and actually do work.  With the help of another contractor we went to check what little work had been done and it was completely inaccurate, so now we have to sue him.  Those are my complaints in a nutshell and I won’t go into it further except to warn everyone to not hire Steven Florinski from Cobourg, Ontario, if you need a contractor.  As you can see I’ve had a lot on my mind.
Since then, I’ve done a few races and my form getting better and better all the time.  I went down to the Owasco Stage Race in NY state and won a time trail for the first time since ‘95 or ‘96.  I was 2nd in Stage 2, 3rd in Stage 3 and finished 3rd overall.  I won the Hamilton Stage Race and was 2nd in the Peterborough ITT.  Working with Mirek Mazur has drastically improved my time trial riding.  I recently did a PB in the local club TT with and average speed of 47.5 km/h.  Not as fast as the best but definately pretty fast.  The Bank of America invitational, in Charlotte, went better than expected.  Team mates Sean Milne and Hilton Clarke were 1st and 4th.  I was fifth.  What a crazy race that was!  We finished in a thunderstorm, which made the last 7 laps all about staying upright.  Sean was in a break, leaving Health Net and Toyota with the responsibility to chase.  When the rain came the whole chase fell apart after a crash.  Gord Fraser, Ivan Domingez and Tony Cruz all put in huge efforts to try to save the day for thier teams, while I sat on thier wheels with team mates in tow wondering why no one was coming around us.  There was an attack on the last lap but we brought it back right away.  Siro pulled me through the last corner and from there I just went as hard as I could for Hilton.  Hilton and JJ Heado came around me and to my surprise, that was it.  Hilton won in Elk Grove, so I guess my team mates are still flying.  I felt great today during a motor pacing session, so hopefully all this spells success in Chicago.