Day Two - 51st Longsjo Classic Stage Race

Day two was very challenging! The weather was great but the heat started to crank up a bit. I had excellent support with Nicole and Taylor (and Connor) in the feed zone making sure I had everything I needed; you can't ask for better support - this doesn't include all the many, many other things they do to support me pre/post race too.

I was sitting in 8th place GC and could have played the safe card and just sat in the group, but I just can't do that, I wanted to move up in GC so I attacked the field 4 or 5 times. A couple of times I thought I would get folks up the road with me and a break would form but it wasn't to be and all the effort went for not. It's always to look back and critique a race and get caught up in saying things like "If I just sat in" or "If I didn't work to pull a break back" but I know what my goal was and I went after it with everything I had. I finished the day in 18th place only 20 seconds back from the winner and in the main group but it would end up costing me 4 places in GC, going from 8th to 12th.

On to day three! Time Trial.