Ronde l' Oise

Hi Everybody

Monday was a rest day and started taken some better antibiotics for the guts. tuesday was a 2hour tempo ride then wednesday was easy an hour and half with Westley did a couple of sprints towards the end. Then it was into the Tour Ronde l' Oise which was based about 100k north of Paris which was a 3hour drive but took 4 cause of traffic. The stage started late at 3pm and was raining and misserable I ended up getting a puncture 60k in the stage which was a bummer then i was in the cars till we hit the hill at 70k then it was a 50k tt to the finish line. Had the craps again so that wasn't to pleasant in the morning of the 2nd stage was a 180k and had a few climbs in it then I got a puncture in the nutrual at the start so ended up starting at the back of the bunch, so I hung in the main bunch til the last cat 1 climb which i dropped and ended up finish in a little bunch. The Saturday was a douple day consisting of 2 100k stages which i started which the craps then ended up coming right for the afternoon and even managed to finish with the main bunch. The last day was my best day I had good legs and went in most the early attacks and even initiated an attack myself and then finally at about 60k a break went and i missed that one I tried bridging to it by myself but couldn't do the last 50m so ended up chilling in the bunch for the rest of the day and finished about 2min down in that stage. The funny thing was my legs wern't even sore so I must have been getting better as the tour progressed. This tour was pretty insane the average speed for the winner was around 44kph for 680k so it was solid mileage. Then we had a 3 hour drive back home to top it all off.
Monday I was back to the Doctor to get another stool sample tested to make sure ive got rid of the camplobatia. So the next race isn't for 10 days so looking forward to doing some quality training over the next week or so hopefully the weather will stay good for a while.

Catchya