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They say that Paris-Nice is the hardest race on the calendar, by “they” I mean guys like Millar and VDV, also have the numbers to back up the claims. I had six days in a row where over 3400 cal and was seeing average power for road stages that I had before only ever seen in a hard North American crit, throw in the cold temps, winds, hills and snow and you have quite a race.

For me the race was progressing nicely and my form was getting better as the race was moving forward until it all came crashing to a halt, literally, on stage 6 when I went down hard. I remember a row of metal poles on the right with the pack riding closely, then for some reason or another some riders from FDJ decided to stop in the little space available between the pack and poles. Rolling at 60kph I had two options, metal poles or other riders and I tried to avoid both and ended up hitting the FDJ guy’s bike. I went one way my bike another, judging by the picture my bike chose the metal pole direction, and I just laid for awhile as my head rung a bit. First thing is always the mental checklist, “does anything hurt really bad right now?” .  Slowly moving all limbs without much pain was a real sense relief, and they got me up and and got Tom P’s spare bike set up for me as my spare bike was on the first team car. From there I got rolling again as car  two shot ahead to get my own spare bike and I waited for the last groupetto and rode it in. When I arrived at the hotel I had some huge swelling on my lower right back and on my left leg, some whiplash(helmet was smashed, so wear your helmet kids), and luckily only a few minor road rashes.

The next morning I woke up a bit stiff but better than I was expecting and decided I wanted to take the start of the race and see how it went, it didn’t go. If it had been a slightly easier day I think I would have been able to complete the race but the last stage around Nice is short and very hard and with the GC battle very close the action was intense from the go. I raced the first 45km up the valley before turning around and riding back to the start. It was a frustrating end to the race as I felt like the form was coming along but now I just have to look ahead to the Volta Catalunyia, which starts next week.

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