Tour is over... Team rocked

Howdy,
So the tour de Taiwan has concluded, thankfully...ha Stages were good. We were in the fight the entire week, and ended up 2nd overall. After stage 3, I went on a slow downward spiral, where as the team went up. Shawn won stage 5 in dramatic sprint finish style. We were active all day, and everyone road solid. We set Shawn up right behind the polish train, and he swamped em for the W. Stage 6 was a tough one. Rain, wind, cold and real real fast. This was a long hard day for me, and I was at the back for most of it. Valeri was off the front for the ENTIRE day. He would be in a break get caught, go again, get caught, go again, and managed to get 2nd to a another active guy who got to sit in every break he was in. Stages 7-8 were crits. 7 the team road solid, and the 4 guys sans me who were blowing it to pieces did just that when a crash with 10 to go neutralized the field. Today was a solid finale to the week. Everyone was a bit tired, and Chris was fresh with road rash, but Emile was the man of the day today. He covered all the moves. Shawn took 3rd on 2 sprints, and 4th in the final, and we ended up the stage race. I took the honor (if you call it that) of the lantern rouge, or final placed finisher. The bar has now been set, and I have to step it up for every race from here on out.

Personally, my expectations were about met. Having not raced on this level for 6 years, I knew it would be tough. I wanted to help the team, get experience, and get ready to rock back in the states for 08. I would have liked to have been better for stages 6-8, but that is life. The guys were really supportive, and really helped me get through the tough parts, and there were a lot.

Blood sugar wise was pretty good. I made the mistake of not eating enough on day 1 and day 8. Stages 2-7 were good. I have been doing 13 units of lantus for the last 3 days, and maybe as much Apidra. I have been eating more as the days went on, and using less insulin, just proving that activity really does boost the metabolism. I will show some pics as they come. My buddy Jack Guest from Atl, who lives in Hong Kong came over, and saw me sucking the back of the pack the last 2 days...ha We also met Stan, who founded SRAM, and is a major supporter, and Louis who founded Champion Systems who will soon be selling Team Type 1 clothing to the world for us...
Thanks a lot for reading. Have a great day, and I will be coming back to raise the bar.
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Thanks,
Phil