Testing few weeks.

Well it's been a testing few weeks since arriving in Belgium. With the cold weather always testing the motivation and sickness getting the better of me for the past week i think i am now back on track. Arriving on Thursday the 21st feb in darkness didn't help the sense of direction and not being able to sleep made for an early morning. 3am to be exact. Josh and i made it to 7am before we decided it was time to take a look around the town. Our town is very small and with nothing of interest we decided to walk to the next town. The signs said 5km so that wasn't bad but when it was time to come home we had been walking for 6hrs. Luckily we found a bus back to our town. We had a call on Saturday to say we would be training with the teams on Sunday which i was happy with as it was an opportunity meet the team mates and Director Sportif. As we started rolling out they told me we would only be doing 90km tempo as it was the first time everyone had been together. Well i was good for 70km so i thought nice easy 20km to finish. 90km came round, 100km came, i thought can't be long to ride now, 130km came and went, 160km came then i thought well that's it, guess we are in for a long day.. well 210km later we were back and everyone looking a little worse for wear haha.

So at the moment we are living on top of an old farm house which isn't the greatest and we only lasted a week before coming up to Holland to stay with friends. So now we are in the process of finding a new apartment which should be a week or so more. Other than that it has been business as usual except for coming down with something early last week. I have since been to the doctor and am waiting on blood test results to come back before getting into some racing and testing out the legs.

Finally, was out riding today when little white flakes started to land on my gloves and and legs.. i thought "oh yeah a bit of hail, great". Turns out it was snowing and it's expected to be white everywhere tomorrow which will be a new experience.

I think all going well i will be lining up in my first race on Sunday down in France and in this weather probly in leg warmers and thermal jacket!!

Until next time..
Ryan

P.s A few pictures. one of the new team kit and one of the dirty farm house.