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What a day it was today! Rising from the pit at 12 didn't help my cause of trying to get the house packed. Bad idea taking the laptop into your room on a rest day as you just don't get out of bed and procrastinate all day. Finally got my shit together at 3.3opm and sorted the house, made it spotless did Josh and I! I also learnt 3 valuble lessons. Never trust a belgian with your life (don't take this serious, belgians are great!), Don't take the legs off the couch and don't get on the wrong side of a house owner (particulraly the one at the farm!).

So now i will elaborate on my experience with belgians and my life. We put the first load of gear into Mathieu's BMW X3 and then he says jump on your bikes and follow me. So we end up holding onto the car, Josh on one side me on the other and away we go, shorts, t-shirt and the wind in our face. After a few km of dodging bush's poking out onto the road i look across to Mathieu and he says to me 70kmh. Im like holey crap, next thing i know hes up to 90-100kmh. Now i really needed to change my usndies! Holding onto a car at almost 100kmh on the open road wasn't the most fun i've ever had. I thought about the consequences as we headed down the hill into our new town! Anyway as they say all that starts well ends well.

Onto a completely different subject! About a month ago i lent back over the couch and one of the legs fell off, i could not work out how to get it back on so instead i knocked the other 3 legs off to get it back to even. I stayed at the new house and fluffed around while Josh and Mathieu went back to the farm for the second load. He was met by the farm lady having a big fat cry over the state of our house. First, she nutted about the couch, then about towels missing (honestly it's a towel and why would we steal her towel?!) then about the house not being tidy, Josh went up with her and Mathieu to check it out. It was spotless aparently. I don;t know what went on as i wasn't there but aparently she said the house was messy and we had taken towels, knives and forks and the likes. She litterally counted every plate, knife, fork, spoon, you name it she made sure it was there. In the end Mathieu told her to pull her head in and take a look at her own house that is never tidy. So she was pretty pissed we left but when an offer comes up for more space and living freely it isn't a hard choice.

So now i'm sitting here fizzing to be in the new house or gaf as it is called our days. The lady, Joelle, who lives here also is fizzing on having us. She couldn't believe it when i walked in with the coffee machine in hand (think she must love her coffee, her one broke) and made us feel as welcome as ever. Now she has gone to work at the hospital. She is also a chiropractor/massuse which is mint as my backs been sore lately, might have to start sucking up to her!! She might be able to twist me back into shape! She made a fresh tomato sause for our pasta tonight too. I'll be making sure we get more where that came from. Best sause i've ever had!! Even got our own garage with tiles instead of cobbles on the ground so we can get back into roller sessions.

I will get some pics up soon so you can all share the joy Josh and I have at the moment! Its a 5 bedroom house so with a room each its magic! Nice and quiet too with no animals! And a huge lawn so Mothers if your feeling generous, a footy ball or cricket set might come in handy!!

The town we are now in is much nicer too, this one doesn't have rubbish in the gutters and some nice shops too. Will make for some good times over the next few months. Sitting down tomorrow to sort some races out which i will do with Mathieu (sorry he is team president for those of you who didn't know) so i will have a better idea of what i am to achieve here. He said i have to win a race in the next month so lucky i started training properly last week so i'll have a shot. What i mean by training properly is previous to last week i had spent hours on the bike building endurance and stamina, now im getting back up to race pace so will be able to foot it in races a whole lot easier. Quality not quantity now. Best way to explain it.

Enough about today. Time for me to sleep, still a cyclist after all.

Will catch up with everyone over the next wee while hopefully.

Quote of the week:
"you get what you train for" - John Lee 2008