Heres a post from my old team's list serve. One teammate that I had gone to spain with earlier this year for a training camp was spectating along side the climb of Mt. Nebo at the end of day 2 for the tour of Arkansas.

"While the results are still being reviewed I can tell you that Nat finished
the tour of Arkansas probably somewhere around 50th (57 I think) place in the GC. While
this might not sound like much it is actually quite remarkable under the
circumstances. The race had over 100 starters many of whom abandoned at
some point, or missed the time cut. In addition this was an NRC event so
all of the heavy hitters were there including Health Net, Jelly Belly, Type
1, and Rite Aid. All of these squads had a full compliment of riders with
full support. Nat had one teammate to help him, and no team car, etc.
Also to my knowledge this was Nat's first pro stage race. Why he picked an
NRC race only he can tell us. Nat was in there as a cat 2 against a field
that was mostly pro, and cat 1.

If you throw out Nat's time gap from the first stage he'd easily be top 30
if not higher. Of course that is all part of the learning experience. Now
if we could only keep Nat out of Hooter's between stages....

Seriously though this type of performance will hopefully get Nat some
exposure, and a possible pro contract in the future. While I never did get
a chance to catch up with Nat over the weekend the one time I did see him
on the climb to the top of Mt Nebo (which was insanely steep!) he looked
fairly comfortable given how hard the course was.

Last I heard Nat was planning on coming back to the area this Fall. If
that is still the case, and you think the Tuesday night rides are bad now....!"