Tour of Utah

Friday night Colleen & I took the Trax downtown to watch the crit stage of the Tour of Utah. Amazing how many people showed up. They were lined up for blocks around the race course. Daniel wasn't racing in this even - he's in Chicago racing. But we were able to meet up with some of the guys from his his Team - Garmin-Chipotle. We met a Eric (operations manager for the team)
and Best Young Rider: Peter Stetina, Garmin/Chipotle.
I never have seen so many riders riding so close so fast before. It was a bit unnerving wondering if there would be a crash, but luckily there wasn't one. There were many people from out of the country both watching and competing. It was very interesting how the announcer "wow"ed the crouds telling everyone the ins and outs of the race and how each rider was doing both in the current race and in the season over all.
After the race we thought we'd missed the trax train by a nanosecond so we started to walk the few blocks to State St. to catch a bus heading south. We encountered an unusual n'oreaster wind that hindered our treck uphill to State street. Good thing it was a warm wind. We stopped at the Shilo Inn for change to ride the bus and to get out of the wind. Not too fond of it esp in the dark. We headed out again reaching Main street just as the Trax was pulling into the station. YEAH! We ran and boarded just as it was abt to pull out. Whew. We were able to catch the bus that drops us off 2 blocks from the house. Perfect timing after all.