Stage 1

Seven hours twenty six minutes. That's how long it took up to complete the 123k course. Man it was tough. I heard about 100 teams DNF'ed. Its now 9 pm and i'm totally wiped out so i'm going to sleep. Last night i didn't get much sleep and now they're saying tomorrow's stage is the toughest with 1000+m climb 100k into the 140k stage. In short we went out way too hard in the start. Stefan suffered the first 40k while i suffered from 60k to 75k at which then i started cramping every half hour or so. Them Stefan started cramping. We made a bit of a comeback despite really fading in the final kilometers. We moved up about 75 places despite our foolishness and lack me respect for the course. We.re nervous about tomorrow and we definitely will be conservative this time.