I have to apologize.  These race results were sent initially to our old team so they tend to be overly biased toward Paul. 

We left Friday and drove to Franklinville, LA. The road race went off for the
1/2/3 at 9AM and W1-4 at 9:40AM. It was already HUMID and hot but that was to
be expected. Paul had 4 other TriStar teammates in the race although the
Herring Gas Team had 10+. THe course was 16mi of rolling hills - 5 laps for
Paul and only 2 for me. He got the break in the first lap with ~7 guys (one
from TriStar). As he said, it felt like a social ride and they kept asking him
to slow down. The women's race started and there were no problems hanging in
the mix and we had a big groupd for a change 18+. The first lap prem sprint
started and I almost hit the girl in front of me when she dropped her chain and
faltered. A large gap opened between 3 groups. I was in the second and spent
half a lap bridging up to the first. Paul came around when we were 5 miles from
the end and yelled for me. It came down to a field sprint for the women which I
was okay with. Paul came around fourth lap pulling the group. I was receiving
updates from the officials and I the next thing I know, Paul was riding up the
road solo (almost soft pedaling) crossing the line for a DESCIVE victory. It
was so unexpected that the officials thought he was part of one of the previous
men's races and I had to tell them his number and race. The break-away came in
30seconds behind him and the field was 5minutes or more back.

TT didn't start until that evening. We checked into the hotel (yes we stayed in
a hotel instead of car camping) and it was true luxury. paint peeling from the
walls, cigarette smell in a non-smoking room, 2 threadbare towels, dirty sheets,
dirty fridge, red light outside of the room. You do the math...

We headed to the TT Paul went off at 5:36PM which isn't cool in LA and I was at
7 something. Complete in his Robobank skin suit (team doesn't have any extras
yet), old school helmet and no disc wheel. He beat the previous record but so
did a few others. He ended up 5th in TT. 1st overall for the stage race - THE
MAN TO BEAT!!! The next 2 men on the GC were both Herring Gas.

We headed back to the hotel for sleep sort of... stopped for beverages on the
way.

Sunday was the crit. An l-shaped crit with a lollipop, straight, rt turn over
the levee, left turn and another quick left, back up and over the levee, left
turn onto straight and into head wind. I learned to position myself better and
sprint from the gun. THe field immediately split into 3 and I was relegaded to
the 3rd field due to slow riders in front and bad cornering. I worked for
20minutes to get back up to the front and pulled a Paul (DNF). Paul's race went
off at noon. He was a completely marked man!!! Herring Gas had 8+ men in the
men's race - over 30% of the people. I manned the headset on the straight by
the levee. It ended up being Darryl and Paul as the only 2 people from TriStar
in the race (lost 3 teammates) so they were forced to cover everything. At 20
minutes after sending numerous attacks, a break got away. Darryl was in the
break but so was one of the guys closest to Paul for the GC. Paul sat on the
front trying to bring it back together for 10 laps. NO ONE would work with him.
The Herring Gas team used lap teammates to pull the lead group, Darryl dropped
back too late to get him up to the front and numerous other questionable racing
tactics occurred. Paul ended up in the main pack. It ended up dropping him to
2nd in the GC but it took a whole team of 10 guys to beat he and Darryl. The
Herring Gas team even "recruited" a few to help keep the split away...