You might be asking yourself right now "why is it that this post is at like 2:30am? shouldnt jim be sleeping?"  and my answer is "i would be, if my left side had skin on it."

first of all, i just finished writing this and i spell checked it, and i spelt 39 words wrong. i am so sorry to all of you who that annoys, i cannot believe i call myself a 5th year college student. anyways, on to the blog.

2 days on the same course but the races couldn't be more different.  I think the only thing that stayed consistent was that if i attacked it was a bad idea and if i sat in the pack it was also a bad idea.

If you haven’t heard yet, there were some discrepancies at the Olympia Fields race that essentially wasted 45 minutes of time and shaved 20 miles off the race. The course was a cool 0.45 miles with a wind down the backstretch emptying into the tightest corner of the 3 turn course. So, of the 125 guys that lined up to race, about 50 dropped out before the start and the rest of us fought it out at about 100mph on the backstretch until a break went up the road. Someone actually did go down and required ambulance assistance causing a stoppage of the race with 16 laps (about

Day #1, Crash #1, Failed breakaway attempts #1-307604, successful chase group #1, and hill #1-62..... Place #18

I (Jimmy Stemper) decided it would be cool to keep track of my superweek by blogging about it on the team site, so for the next 17 days (July 11 - July 27) I will keep you updated on whats happening in the Pro-1-2 field.