NORTH OF FRANCE

Hi Everybody

Just spent the last couple of weeks doing a couple of races in the North West of France
As Rond de Gard got canned, so we did not do any racing that weekend, then spent the next week doing some training leading into GP Plouay which was a circuit race and didn't go so well for me althogh managed to finish it.

We had some mission drives across france to get up north as we didn't stay up there in between the races.

So spent a couple of days recovering in Limoux before heading back up north to Cabri Tour which was based out of St Bruiec which is right up the ttop of France. The first stage was really hot, a break went early on which had Alex Meenhorst, Mike Torkler and Matt Silliars in it and it stayed away however it wasn't our day oviously as they all ended up crashing out of that bunch all at different parts of the race which left no one up there. The next day started out with a 11k tt which was pretty miserable and cold, as have no tt bike just rode a solid ride and ended up not doing to bad 18th at 53sec, so then it was a couple of hours rest before the last stage which was a 9.8k circuit which had a 3k climb up to the finish. After a couple of laps a break finally went and I managed to get in it so looked like it was going to be pretty good however the bunch pulled it back in with 2laps to go so I ended up getting dropped and just cruised a couple of laps to the finish. So we had a nice drive back down to Limoux however we only drove a couple of hours the day of the tour and drove the rest of the way the following day so that wasn't to bad.

This weekend we have a race around Lyon which is out to the east of the france and is generally hilly around there, so keep you posted on how it goes.

Later Chris