I love that movie Poison Ivy

The week before the Elite Team went to the International Tour de Toona we went 3 hours west to the hilly Hudson River Valley to race at UnionVale. The long car ride was made tollerable by Bicycling Magazine on tape. Well...Greg read the Landis/Zabriski article to us. If you haven' had a chance to read it, you must go out and find a copy now. It is probably the only good article ever in a bike magazine.

So, anywhoo...The race was really hard, the air was hot and the field was small, making the race even harder. I was at the front for most of the race, gettin in one last day of hard training before toona. Tom Hopper was doing a great job in the feed zone for us but alas, I got all tingly from dehydrationa and had to ease up on the last lap. I stopped at the car for a coke and refill bottles and rode up the final, 2 mile climb with Greg to watch the finish. Dave was the only IF rider to finish of the 20 or so finishers. While we were waiting, I sat on some poison Ivy. DOUGHT!