Went to the Friday evening downtown criterium. You have to love Bend. Wall to wall people all the way around the course even for the women's, which sadly doesn't happen all that often.

Also saw a couple of Davis women who I ran into all the time back when who are up here racing. Just affirmed why racing the local fun TT back in Davis was just for my own gratification. Kelly McDonald and Jane Robertson are in 9 and 19 in the GC. Jane is 43 so there is hope for some of you yet.

Lot of crashes in the men's crit field but Toyota United controled the race with Chris and Levi sitting right behind and made it safely home. I love watching crits but, boy, they can end your season fast.

I didn't see it but Chris apparently "rode" another rider into the finish of Mt Bachelor yesterday. Someone crashed and his bike broke so Chris put the guy on the saddle of his own bike with the guy shouldering his broken bike, then stood up and finished the course standing the entire way. A friend of ours up here doing support for SRAM who was taxed to find them on their way to the finish quotes Chris as saying "No, I'm good." as he continued to the finish. I wish I'd seen it. Chris had a huge mechanical on stage 1 and lost time, and essentially has been riding for Levi any way so no worries about his GC. I'm really missing his interviews on Versus during the TdF. He's local so maybe I'll just have to lay in wait for "man on the street" interviews.