The dust has finally settled after the Tour of California finished on Sunday and I am now comfortably lying in bed at Ann’s house in Northern California where I will be stationed for the next few days….and by that I mean stationed in bed!

The final stage of the Tour was crazy hard…or at least it was for me!  Tommy Z had a great ride and got fifth on the stage while BJM was able to hang onto his 16th overall which is very impressive considering the quality of the field!

Following the post race festivities Ann and I made the long drive back to northern California from Pasedena where the tour finished!

Now I have nothing to do except for let P.T.D.S set in!  Yep, during a long tour we maybe get fifteen minutes of free time a day.  The normal schedule involves getting up, eating, pre race shower, racing, post race shower, massage, post massage shower, eating dinner, team meeting, repacking the laundry our soigneurs washed for us, greeting the hoards of fans who come to see me etc…

Now however, that has all been taken away thus leaving me to cook my own food, do my own laundry, all the while having no one around cheering my name! I do not know what to do with myself!  It is rough and for a few days until the body gets used to this new routine there is a bit of depression that sets in which is known Post Tour Depression Syndrome!

Anyway, I am off to be depressed

later, g.