Congrats to Cisar, Brown, dR, and Bennett for representing well in the main at Madrid today. 3-6th respectively. You know the US is dominant when 4 of the 8 guys in the main are Americans. There is a reason they are ranked #1. Big podium for Steven too, I am happy for him. He has been working hard. Also TB has shown he is on a mission in jeans and was rockin all day long. It was rad to see live coverage. I heard Stumpy got broke off and wish him the best in his recovery. Not cool, he has been on fire as well.

5 days solid of riding all day long on different tracks has about done me in. Tomorrow is a much needed rest day to recover for whats coming next week.

This morning we took a pit stop at Pole (the French equivalent of our Chula Vista) so that Aurelia could pick up some wheels from Letitia LeCorguille. We went and had a peak at the track to show the Germans. Its technical to the point of insanity, in fact its so technical I cannot see how it benefits at all for a normal race let alone Beijing. The first straight is uphill (great for power but bad for the sx start ramp) and the third straight is too many jumps not separated by enough space, and in my opinion death. I have to say props to those girls who can get through it. There are some pics under the Frejus album and I took another one today that I will post. I feel so grateful to have been selected to live at Chula Vista and to train on a REAL Olympic replica track.

We rode really hard this morning at Les Pennes. The track has a Rockford length first straight except instead of a round triple and tiny double its a roller to double- to gigantic Step-up followed by another huge double in the corner. It was a little intimidating at first, but you are going so fast its like your on a SX track anyway. clipped in of course for the leg speed required.

80 gates later and I was FLAT and starving so we headed into town for lunch. Thanks to the French system you can only get lunch between 12-2 and dinner doesn't start until 7pm. So at 2:05 the only option we had was McDonalds. Everyone else seemed stoked on it, but I was pretty bummed. I never eat fast food and its probably been 6yrs since I set foot in a McD's. To their credit at least in France they have a wide selection of salads so I opted for one and forced myself to eat a burger so I could get some calories in.

 This afternoon it was back to Cornillion, but I was so blown out I just cruised around a bit. The Germans are headed home tomorrow and we are getting Swiss riders next week. Hopefully they will be just as cool.

Supercross San Diego is tonight, bummed I am missing it. Maybe Chad Reed will blow it and someone else will get a victory...