Sunday's race

Looks like Pijnacker was not televised. Jon said but for one last crash he would have been with Chrobak. As it was, he was the last rider not to be lapped (contrary to the report on VeloNews). Cyndi said he was well clear of the finish straight away before Lars and Bart came through. Cyndi also mentioned one crash Jon had. She said one muddy downhill curved away from a drop off way down to a canal, so that if you hit the fence hard enough you would just slide down into the canal. She saw a rider crash there and knew Jon was coming next and thought he would crash there and sure enough he did. She said she knew it was because the prior rider had dug out a crash line, but she felt that she should have been saying "don't crash, don't crash" then he might have gotten around. Neither rider fell into the canal. Jon said his last crash was into a post. I said he should avoid those posts. Ha! more on VeloNews; more on CyclingNews .

Cyndi and Leah were off this AM prior to the crack of dawn for the trip to Paris. They will be back around dinner time tomorrow.