Short Time Trial, Long Drive
Monday, August 18, 2008 - Race Reports

There was definitely a lack of motivation in most of the peloton. While I didn't feel fresh I decided to go hard because this is the Tour of Utah after all. The times in my range were all pretty close. I ended up 28th, 10 seconds out of the top 20.
Jesse and Max made fun of all my "useless" effort at the finish line, but according to my calculations I moved up to 25th in the GC by 4 seconds. Even though I'm a PhD candidate in Applied Math I'm going to wait for the official results before I celebrate. Our U23 rider Erik Slack also moved up to 4th.
The real show was the battle for the top GC spot. Jeff Louder was 7 seconds down on Blake Caldwell going into the last stage. The Health Net boys had Louder 8 seconds up about half way through. It looks like he maintained that pace and took the win.
Oh and did I say I felt good on Saturday. This picture was taken by my man Carson Blume at the end of the stage.

Want to thank the Bobs-Bicyles.com guys again for letting me race with them, it was a blast.
Comments
Jason Eiserich
Monday, August 18, 2008, 6:29 pm
Hey Mach...Congrats on a super performance! Awesome effort! The prosey teams must be taking a close look at you now... best, jason
tyler
Monday, August 18, 2008, 7:28 pm
you. are. a. dork. thats all i have to say at the moment.