It is that time again... Time to take the BRT over to the early season races in Cali.  Merced... Central Valley... Sequoia...  All great events!  Nothing like seeing the best of the best duke it out three weekends in a row.  Health Net and Toyota United put on quite a show last year...as did Victory brewing for the ladies side. Cant wait to see Nicole Evans in her new TEAm Lipton kit going at it with the big girls.  Props to her for coming so far so fast!

My all time favorite from last years Cali swing was a cat 3 at the Central Valley Crit trying to tell me he was 5th when he was closer to 15th.  Nothing out of the ordinary exept this clown was wearing a long sleeve leopard print skin suit (I kid you not).  I showed him the pics of him crossing the line and counted back from the leader to him... I gave him my stand by line... "The eye in the sky doesnt lie"  He looked me dead in the eyes and said "thats not me"!  Keep in mind I am shooting pics at 2500 frames per second... so not only could you see the spots on his hag bag, you could see his red goatee and the rubber bands that tied it in a point.  Oh and the sparkly red diadora shoes were clear as day as well.  Even with all of that... yes we are having this go round while he is still in his kitty shammy and wizard of OZ shoes... he still swears its not him?!  So I zoom in and point out the tighty whitey under wear lines he is rocking in the picture and I ask the announcer Dave Toll what he thinks.  Dave says into the mic with this kid standing on stage " Dude in that outfit anything less than an arms in the air, 30 second beat down WIN and I would be hiding under this stage"  I swear all 10,000 spectators stopped pointed a laughed!  Needless to say the leopard slinked away...presumably under the stage as Dave had recommmended.

yes... goin back to cali...to cali....to cali