The Blog returns

Hey everyone,
For various reasons the blog has been on hiatus for quite awhile now. Here's my first post on the attempted comeback trail. It's fitting that this post comes from a different hemisphere and a race that blurs the lines of the 2010 and 2011 seasons-yep, that's right, I'm starting a stage tomorrow, the 1st of November. I'm in Invercargill, New Zealand for the Tour of Southland with the Jackson Plumbing composite team, made up of myself, Mike Olheiser, Cody Stevenson, Sergio Hernandez, Kevin Nicol and Lang Reynolds.

The race is 6 days and 9 stages starting with tomorrows TTT and 90k hill-top finish road race. Although the weather is nice at the moment the usual deciding factor of this tour is the wicked winds and rain, sleet or snow that can terrorize the peleton. I'm looking forward to a few of the hillier days and helping Mike for the GC. We've got a variety of international riders and the southern hemisphere's best talent, including a few protour riders like Hayden Roulston, Greg Henderson and Clinton Avery to contend with. More later,
Christian