Thai

I am finishing off a one month road trip with a little flare. I started, as many of you know with a trip to LA to prep for track worlds. This was only a weeklong prep that was intended just to give me the feel for the track again. From there I went to Poland for the world championships where I got a mixed bag of results from fantastic to not so great…but none were disappointing which is better than worlds has gone for me in the past.

Then it was on to the tour of Thailand. Now there is always a little unknown when heading to a race like this. International racing can always go either way especially at the UCI 2.2 level.

Thailand did not disappoint. The FOOD has been amazing, Thai curries and soups and noodles and spice and nice…MMMM.

The race was well organized, well run, professional and efficient. Epic courses that were well marshaled and safe. And race hotels that were more than adequate.

Now the race is over, we won the prize and we have 3 days to kill before we fly out. What to do? We had to wait for flights because it was almost 4000 bucks cheaper to fly the team later. We are a pro team but that is a whole other stage race. So we wait, Bangkok is in the lock of protests. Jonas suggest we pay a couple hundred and fly to the tropical Thai island of Samui. OK

So we have had 48 hours of beach paradise in the gulf of Thailand. Tomorrow we will fly back to Bangkok and spend a night at an airport hotel before we fly out to our homes. The trip sure has been long. But chilling in a bungalow and contemplating things on the beach toady sure helped soften the stress of a long road trip at the end.

But I am still ready to trade tropical beaches and curry for rain in Vancouver and the breath of my fiancé….

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