Its June the 23rd, its a Wednesday, May the 18th was the last time i wrote on this.
I am writing now as i have something to talk about, so i will start with;
Sunday May 23rd. An BVB Interclub, the name was BVB(which means Belgium Cup, which means 33 teams of 6 riders, which means basically a brothel, which means stay at the front, which i did until i went down at 60ks an hour after 11km of racing, which means minor concussion)
The next week involved having a sore head, racing twice and pulling out twice.
Doctors, medication, and about 10 after my head started to shape up.
It's probably not a good thing to say but i have forgotten what i have done in the week since, but feeling better, and riding my bike were on the cards, oh and one of these...
It's Hincapie's spare classics bike from last year, this was given to me for the remainder of the season by Allan Pieper, who is looking after us really well and helping us in our first season in Belgium. So mad props to Allan.
The bike is rather suave, its a classic's specific one. So it handles really very well on the cobbles.
A bit of this and a bit of that and its Tuesday the 15th and we are in Germany for the Thüringen Rundfahrt, this is one of the top U23 tours in the world and boy was it hard.
1. Etappe, 15.06.2010, Sparkassen Mannschaftszeitfahren Bleicherode,23.7 km
2. Etappe, 16.06.2010, Bleicherode - Wasungen, 148.0 km
3. Etappe, 17.06.2010, Wasungen - Brotterode, 159.7 km
4. Etappe, 18.06.2010, Rund um Bad Berka, 142.5 km
5. Etappe, 19.06.2010, Masserberg - Masserberg, 138.9 km
6. Etappe, 20.06.2010, Hermsdorf - Hermsdorf, 145.7 km
Ok so to sum it up it was hilly and hard, as you can read my lead up to this event was, well it was less than ideal. So getting spat on the climbs and chasing was a bit of a game i played all to often, until to i lost that game on stage 5, after a failed attempt to get across to the days break i hit the hill, the hill hit me. I got back on the back then another hill and it was sort of lights out, unless you had your team car. Of which you could hold onto the door and be towed back to the bunch. Me and Shane of the the Nz team were not so lucky so we rode to the feed station and hoped in the car. Pulling out, a shit feeling indeed but it may sound pretty cliche but i actually took a lot from the tour. Detail i can't really be bothered going into but hopefully it will show in the next year or so.
Other than that i had a very good experience with the NZ team, riders and management who all did there best and made it a very good environment to be in!
This is me in Germany, at a Dam. Germany is a Beautiful place. Probably the nicest place i have been to, the roads are so nice to ride. Would love to go back there soon.
Funny you should say that Ruaraidh as you are. Yes thats right i am going back on Monday the 28th of June, for a training camp with the Isorex team. This will be good training for the Tour de Liege with the steep we climbs that its got.
So I hope that has a bit of info, I am having an easy week now to recovery and do a bit of touristy stuff, maybe.
Next race a Pro kermis in Melle just out of Gent.
It's ok for you
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