Flutterby™! : Tour of California Stage 1

I wasn't motivated to go out and see the Tour of California blow by on its Sausalito to Santa Rosa stage yesterday, but I did pop up the race page to make sure we weren't going to get into the middle of it, and catched the dramatic break-away. J.J. Haedo won yesterday's stage, but Jackson Stewart pulled a breakaway for 61 miles of the 97 mile stage, at times holding a 15 minute lead.

The part I tuned in for he was out in the lead blasting north along Route 1, holding damned close to 30MPH. They claim he's not much of a climber (which is why he got caught on the Coleman Valley climb), but he must be an amazing time-trialer, and he must be looking to switch teams: That's a lousy strategy for winning a race, but if your coaching can put people in the right place in the pack it must be staggering to have someone like that pulling.