I’m sort of the new kid on the block, having become a contributor to PEZ in 2015. But I’d been a longtime reader and my connection to PEZ started the year before when my (and my RAAM teammate, Sam Bishop’s) #steelisreal Hollands was featured in Readers’ Rigs. And the PEZ crew is so close knit that it feels like I’ve been here forever.This is the second piece I penned for PEZ (the first being my ride of the Richmond 2015 Worlds course). And it was my first time back to a pro race since the 90s — when I went to the Tour de France on a Breaking Away tour with my wife, was at every edition of the Tour de Trump/Tour Dupont (including being there for Greg Lemond’s last major win of his career and getting an invite to the post-race party where I got to hang out with Davis Phinney and Laurent Fignon, amongst others), and several editions the USPRO Championship (then sponsored by and more commonly called CoreStates) in Philadelphia with the brutal Manayunk Wall (I hitched a ride in one of the Mavic neutral support cars one year and it was a Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride around the course, especially the fall from the wall). Plus it was part of my “comeback” after a 15 year hiatus off the bike and it just felt great to be back in the middle of it all.What made this a different weekend is that I didn’t go to Worlds…
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