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Nicer day today with dry roads and temperatures right around freezing and some wind but not too much. Bigger group today of maybe 30 or so. The race started off pretty pedestrain, we turned north into the windy roads out in the open and a seried of tough attacks went, I followed wheels and we got a gap for a moment but the pack rejoined us which touched off another series of attacks and finally three riders rolled off the front, me not amongst them. The pack all came back together and the chase was sort of on. With a large group all together, there was this overwhelming hesitancy to chase, the pack was composed of riders who wanted to win and those who were just happy to be in there, so there was this on again off again surge of work being done. There was plenty of firepower left in the group, so there was a feeling of "I'll only help if you will" added to a general disorganization. The three riders off the front dropped to two after a while and with maybe 6 miles to go, they continued to yo-yo just 20 secons up to road. I did my share of work and over finally, with 400 meters to get, we pegged them back. The sprint opened up from this point and I sat wheels and tried to surf my way forward without sticking my nose in the win. With 400 meters to go, yesterday's winner went and managed to get a gap which he held to the line. A series of early jumps kept opening up and I waited and tried to keep my position. With 200 meters to go, the rider from the break came hard on my left, I vectored across and go on his wheel, he was just winding the snot out of it in the 12 but starting to fade toward the line. I came over the top of him on the right, but another rider snapped out of the slipstream and came around both of us on the left, leaving me third for the day. It was a fun sprint in an otherwise dull race. No pictures, I do have a graph of heartrate...<br><br><img alt="" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/giro1.jpg" style="border:0px solid;">
