I went to line up early so I could get a good start. There was a crash in the men’s race ahead of us. They had to stop the race because the crash was 50 meters from the start/finish. They stopped that race while the ambulance did its thing. Then they restarted the race with 12 laps to go. So not only did my warm-up go away, but I was in a bad start position also. There were 110 women who started. The race wasn’t really fast, it was just hard to get a good position. I felt awful for the first 10 laps. I was at the back. Then I got into it and moved up. I actually attacked and countered and lead the pack through the start/finish once. Then I got swarmed again.

The entire race was fighting for position. The race was just not fast enough to shell people so we were constantly being swarmed. There was a crash early in the race that happened right by me, but I squeaked by. On our third lap to go, there was a huge crash near the front of the pack, taking down a lot of riders. I happened to be on the other side of the road, so I wasn’t affected. Then on the last lap, there was another big crash. Luckily I was on the other side of the road again so I missed it. I had a bad position and finished 26th or so. Brooke Miller, TIBCO, won it, Suzanne de Goede, T-Mobile, 2nd, and Lara Kropsh, TEAm Lipton, 3rd. I finished 25th and Betsy 51st.