Rio Strada teammate Derek Novaes snapped some great pic’s at this weekend’s races in El Dorado Hills. (I thought I saw his camera jammed into the hay bails.) See the rest of the set at his SmugMug Site. Now I’m going out shopping for a gut filter to give Derek as a gift.

Though I dropped out of the race with only about 10 minutes left due to the extreme heat (I actually don’t remember pulling out) I felt fantastic right up to that point.