Last Sunday i made the trip north for a Kermesse of 120km. The race itself was good, i followed breaks, initiated breaks, and for the first time in my racing career nothing stuck till 90km in. I had good legs, was active, rode good postition but in the end luck wasn't on my side. Finished safely at the front of the bunch after a hectic last 2km where guys were taking risks to get 20th. Not sure about the sense in that but ok.
Monday was good, a nice sleep in then out in the rain for 1.5hours recovery. Atleast the rain is warm and there is no wind. I also went food shopping which isn't a good idea when you have a whole afternoon to kill. You run out of food pretty quick, also when leaving James home by himself a lot of food goes missing, but it was enjoyable having you stay. Common Belgium isn't that bad, atleast there language makes sense haha.
Tuesday was slightly raining again, im not going to bore you with what i did all day, left home at 8.15, meet one of Josh's team mates, got back 5 and a half hours later. Then fell asleep while Josh cleaned the house, sorry maybe next time i'll help.
Wednesday.. Well no body pulled out of the race so there was no start for me, which meant another long day. We just followed some roads, and some more roads, until we were lost, then tried finding our way back, thats the great thing about Belgium, even when you think you are lost, your probly never any more than 50km from home and theres always signs to the bigger towns next to us. We were spose to be home at 3 after leaving home at 9am to take James to the train station, but we were on a good day so left him at home waiting for a little longer.
Thursday was the last chance to go big again before a couple of easier days before what was spose to be a race on sunday. Went big again, well sounds big but these days its just a normal day. 4 and a half hours seems to go quite quickly when riding around here.
Friday, we rose late, went to town. This is where the highlight of the century occurs, I finally got sick of having no internet and was not waiting another month for the phone men to come and connect it so i went to the phone shop and got internet sorted. Probly should have done it 2 months ago but nevermind it's done now and updates will once again run frequently. I went for a ride too.
Saturday came and went. Josh and I decided we would ride in the afternoon and go and watch the u23 Liege Bastogne Liege. Once again it was drizzling. Not sure whats happening with this planet and it's crazy whether patterns but hopefully it goes back to normal, it's spose to be summer and we are still riding in thermal jackets! It was a bit dissapointing watching from the side of the road as i feel i could have done a good ride after training on the parts of the course everyday. Not on purpose but most of the roads we know are around that area.
Now it's Sunday and while Josh went to Zelik-Gaalmarden with his team, i stayed at home and trainined. We also had the warmest day this year in Belgium. I trained without leg warmers, without arm warmers although i was a bit hesitant at first as after 2 months of not seeing any skin i was starting to look like a white Belgie as by now my tan lines obtained over the New Zealand summer had well and truely dissapeared. I spent the rest of the day watching Amstel Gold on the box and sifting the internet.
This week will once again be spent training. Hopefully i now have a race on the 3rd of May with the team. Depending weather the organisers let me start in the Wallonie championships. Maybe i will try and borrow a car from Josh's team and make the trip north for a couple of Kermesses this week and hopefully more starts and opportunities with the team will follow. Kinda hurts coming half way round the world and not starting many races.
Anyway thats my brag and moan for today atleast.
I will put on some pictures. One to show proof that the sun did actually shine today (18 degrees to be exact) and some from racing/training and whatever else may follow.
Thanks for reading, you have done well to make it this far.
Ryan
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