The second stage was difficult from the beginning and was hard fought. I thought that I would be dropped at the end, but I managed pretty good. At first a group broke, the lead was almost ten minutes but team Radioshack pulled them back and at 125 km the groupet was pulled in. Then began the jostling for position, a small group broke away from which two riders split and pulled alone at fifteen kilometres to the finish the trio had a lead of less than two minutes ... In the last hill I broke from the peloton together with van Garderen and chased the trio and eventually came third, "