Hello everyone! I am so happy to be back racing and feeling good. Today was the prologue and it was a really challenging route. Two short climbs were connected by some flat and false flat roads with one high speed descent in between. I got off to a great start and felt very smooth and light. I hate these 10 min efforts I started to get a little excited and actually lost it a little in one of the corners. I didn't crash and enjoyed and good ride for the rest of the route to finish 13th.

I feel fit, no back pain, and ready to continue my hard training for Georgia this week. Each day I will be riding 60 kilometers more at the end of the stage as well as some hard intervals. I also came into this race on the tail end of a 30 hour intense training week. On top of that my PT Allison has had my working hard in the gym on my core! Whew it sure is a lot of hard work to get to where I want to be, but so far so good.

Thanks for tuning in and I will keep you posted on how everything is going!

TD