This is my first road race. I've been in mountain biking. I had a couple of friends and we decided to start road racing. I will do all three stages. I feel this will be a good challenge. Hopefully, I'm in good enough shape to handle it.

Someone said if you want to get faster at mountain biking, get into road biking to build your stamina up. So I built my first road bike.

In other countries where biking is as common as driving, motorists feel like they don't belong on the road. They travel slow and cautiously. Here in America, we feel that we have the right to the road and the cyclists are slowing us down. ... We have to get out of that way of thinking.

How can it be that Denmark has only three riders in the road race and Britain has six?

He ran a good race, but with Bellamy Road in the race it changed the whole thinking process. We were waiting for Bellamy Road to stop and he didn't.

I have spoken with him and I think he will be in great condition for the road race event.