Twice?!?

I crashed not once, but twice today. Yesterday a guy crashed coming out of the parking lot and I made fun of him. Today my pay back arrived. I was descending around a right hand turn on the first lap when my front tire blew out. I hit the deck and my bike went flying. Ouch. The worst part was that I was about 6th wheel and Frank (2nd place) on GC was on my wheel. All I could think about was please don't hit me Frank. That would have been a great way to make an impression on the team. So after all 180 riders passed me without hitting me or my bike, I got a quick wheel change from the boys at Mavic and it was off to the races. Dustin came back and paced me up to the group, then Billy took over. Just as we were about half way through the pack another crash happened! This split the field and half of our team was caught behind it, including me. Oh man that was another tough chase. We got back on as the break went, so things finally slowed down which was nice. I caught my breath and hung on until the finish. With about 200m to go a Colavita guy's front wheel turned sideways in the railroad tracks and went down hard right in front of me. I made it around, but am not sure it I got pack time or not. We'll see how it goes. Time to rest up for tomorrow. Today took a lot out of me.