While some of the best gravel and mountain bike racers on the planet kicked up the dust across the San Diego's North County hills in Southern California on Sunday, Floyd Landis stood anonymously in line at a start-finish area food tent to receive a waffle smothered with hazelnut chocolate spread. A puncture and suspected slow leak ended his day early after a couple of dozen miles on his bike at the Belgian Waffle Ride California.
The former WorldTour rider had no problem with the short day of bike riding, happy to have been at the front of the elite men's field for a while and enjoy familiar roads located 60 miles south of Temecula, where he used to live, 'a lifetime ago'.
