Steping up!

Win in Oordegem 29/5

Okay better start from where I left off from which was loving to ride my bicycle and continue to do so.

So the following week after the races at Merelbeke there was a week where there was no mid week races so just got some nice site seeing in and had a good recovery week.
So then after not racing atleast once during that week felt really weird not racing in the middle of the week so any the recovery week must of done me a world of good as had a very solid race at Oordegem riding off from the start line and pretty much ended up felt so strong so with 5 laps to go went full gas up the little hill in the circuit and road off solo to the finish.
So had my usual rest day on Monday and went for a couple of nice easy rides before doing the another race in Oordegem unfortunately I was a very marked man now so did not make for an easy race, but still 2laps to go went
across to the break of 8 by myself but didn't have any legs for the sprint as caught them 1k from the finish. So finished 7th.
More easy rides before racing in Poesele where I ended up 4th as wasted alot of energy trying to get away the whole race.
Had a nice swim on my rest day at the local pools in Gent.
Some more quality time spent on the bike the following week with not so much great results 12th in Kluisbergen 7th in Oosterzele crit then 16th in a race on the Sunday in Sint Kornelis Horbeke.
As for the following week just took it feely easy leading into the Pro Races only racing on the Wednesday in Oosterzele which I finished 2nd. The following few days just took it easy as raced a Pro Kermis in Lede which was 168k 16 x 10.5k laps. As for how it unfolded was that started off with a break going early and getting caught half way meanwhile the rain came and made it extra technical on the cobbles and in the corners I stayed near the front out of trouble and made a few moves that looked promising but didn't stick so basically last lap came and I was a bit to far back and 6 guys rolled off including Marc Ryan fellow kiwi who had a good race. Any way another 4 pro's took off and were in between the peleton and the front group, so since I still had legs left I attacked soloed across to the group of 4 then on the slight rise dropped all of them as well and went on pursuit after the front 6 by myself any one of the riders slid out on a corner so I passed him and was about 100m off the back of the group when they started sprinting so finished a creditable 6th.
So just took it easy on Monday as had another pro race Ruddervoorde Koers 174k on Tuesday usually this is a bigger one with more pro's starting in that one anyway again had a solid race keeping in the front and even made a few splits happen where there was only 5 of us a one stage but didn't stick so the situation with 3laps to go, the group had regrouped and there was about 30 left out of the field of 134 so with 2 laps to go 4 riders went ahead but didn't think the odds of them staying away was very likely so didn't bother going with that move as look to be setting up for a bunch sprint to the line. Any way last lap came they still had 30sec and was going to be a sprint for 5th so 1.5k to go attacked and led into the last corners which would of been kaose otherwise so had 2nd wheel coming out of the last corner with 600m to go which was to soon to start sprint so waited ended up getting a bit boxed in and found away out passed 2 riders and then finished 9th so 5th in the bunch sprint so that was good for the morel known I can mix it up with the pro's with 2 top 10's in both races. So had a nice rest day today after 1000+ks on the bike last week... LOVE IT!!!!!

Lede Koers nice and wet

God Bless

Take care

Cheers

Chris Macic