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Team TIAA-CREF - 2005
Team Journal Entry - May 22, 2005, by Timmy Duggan
Waffle power at the Tour of Connecticut
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My first trip to the Tour of Connecticut began with delayed flights, a late night airport pickup and a long drive to a mansion in the Connecticut countryside owned by a friend of our team. We even have a chef there that cooks our food! Let me tell you, it beats sleeping in the back of my mom's minivan eating from a camp stove a couple years ago.
The race began yesterday with a criterium on the Yale campus. The loop was so short I think I now know what track racing is like. It was one big circle around a park, so you were pretty much always turning. It was flat and windy, so despite my best efforts to animate the race, it all stayed together for a sprint finish.
Today was a little different though, a tough climbing circuit that some have deemed the toughest circuit in the country. I think the chef made me a few too many waffles this morning, so to burn off my full stomach I set out on the attack early, being a part of each early breakaway that went. Each time right before we would get caught, I attacked again, so for much of the race I ended up off the front on my own with a minute and a half advantage scooping up sprint points and KoM points to the delight of the ample crowd lining the course with BBQ's and yard parties.
With every passing lap, the parties got drunker and louder, yelling and cheering. Olympic mountain biker Todd Wells joined me for a few more laps, but as the wind picked up and the Navigators team chased hard we came back to what was left of the front group with only a few laps to go, just in time for a small dog to run into the field. Unfortunately it was on the hill where we push 60 mph. Needless to say, the next lap around the poor little guy resembled a pancake more than a dog.
Speaking of pancakes, I better have our temporary chef whip up a bunch of them tomorrow morning, because we have a 140 mile stage through the hills to contend with tomorrow, and I'll be on the attack for the Sprint and the Mountains jerseys!
Thanks for your support!
Timmy
Tour of
Connecticut stage 1 results
Tour of
Connecticut stage 2 results
