Pre Tour of Alberta

The tour of Alberta begins this Wednesday. We arrived here in Grande Prairie on Friday. On Saturday the Lupus Racing Team attended a gala at the Phillip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. The museum was very fun. We got a guided tour of the museum, and we even met the mayor of Grande Prairie. Our director Phil spoke at the gala and helped spread the message of our team. We have done some training rides around Grande Prairie, and the weather has been super. It reminds me of fall in the south. For most of the day we have been resting up for the race in our hotel rooms. It will be really exciting to begin the biggest race of my life. I will give updates daily from the Tour of Alberta. 

The Tour of Alberta begins tomorrow night with a team time trial. This morning the team rolled the 20 km TTT course together. We did some efforts and inspected the turns on the course. Our directors Phil Cortes and Steve Carpenter rolled behind us in the car and gave us advice via radios. It was a fun ride with some nice weather. After that we got massages. We also had the team presentation at the race. At the presentation Evan and Kyle talked about what our team’s message: to raise awareness of the autoimmune disease lupus. Be sure to check out the action via live feed on the Internet. The race begins around 6pm tomorrow night mountain time.