Keep on going

Me taken the dog for a walk at the beach.

Hi Everybody, been a little while since the last update, well since the last update have raced a fair amount and had a few rough patches with another little crash and doing a bit to much on the odd occasion now as I write this have 65 one day races in the legs that I have finished so definately my biggest year racing that I have ever done and love it despite the ups and downs.

To start off from last time back in the end of July had a we break off the bike 3days just to recovery from the latest block of racing highlight of that would of been going for a walk at the beach even despite not on such a good day.
So started off the following week back with a couple of nice easy rides and enjoyed riding on my birthday which happened to be one of the better days of the summer hence a nice photo of the windmill in Damme.
After that went and celebrated my 23rd birthday by going bowling with my friends in Gent which I enjoyed.



After my birthday that followed by another victory in Deerlijk this time as we rode out to the race didn't feel like I was going to have a good race, any way not a drop of rain in the 2hours riding out to the race then just as the race started the rain also and didn't stop the whole race and since there was alot of starters and corners it meant be at the front and stay out of trouble, but as I started near the back this was a little process and meanwhile a break of 3 riders had slipped away and had 20sec or so, so me seeming to find some legs attacked and rode a 2lap time trial accross to them by myself and extended the lead with them, but with 2laps to go it looked pretty grim that we would be able to stay away so once the bunch had nearly caught us put in a super effort which took us back out to 30sec so then it ended up been a 2 up sprint finish with me playing it cool and flying past to take the win in the last 100m.
Then the following day had a solid ride also finishing 5th in De Katte.
The following week add to the top ten's with another 3 finishes and the following week that lined up for the pro race in Huesden which managed a creditable 45th place finish.




On the 17th decided that I would go on a we expidition to SRM in Julich Germany and back which was a rather long and drawn out day on the trains but definately worth sorting out the problem with the srm and taken in some nice scenary as the train went back through the Ardennes. Unfortunately only had time to take one photo of this statue in Aachen.













So the following day had an awful race in Belzele probably due to all the travelling the day before pulled out after 1hour,
anyway managed to get a funny photo of this dog that just decided to make itself a new home in the back of the team car.

Now the following week was a bit to much started off on the Sunday with a 3rd place in Belzele then followed by another 3rd place in Balegem then 2nd place in Wippelgem winning me the classement for the 2 days then had one easy day followed by a pro kermis in Mere where had one of my strongest rides making every break and only getting caught in the last lap and still finished 49th in the bunch.
The following day was pretty to much and despite having reasonble legs with the 230+ks in the legs from the day before did a crit in Zirikzee in Holland and had a stupid crash cause of a bike malfunction going into a corner by chain came off and got jammed going into a corner so put a few more wounds on my left eblow and leg. So took the next few days feely easy but unfortunately the wound on the elbow was quite deep and gave me a little bit of a blood infection which wasn't so nice as raced another 2 pro kermises one in Geraardsbergen 63rd place and the other the following day in Kortemark 16th place despite my legs feeling like bricks that did not want to move really. So after that took it easy again for a few days then raced and finished 11th which wasn't such a good race as still not feeling better so had a few more easy days leading into another pro race in Izegem where I finished 26th and felt quite a bit better and the following day 8th in Assebroek.

So am looking forward to the closing part of the season racing mainly pro kermises and getting back home to NZ in October.

As for this pictures below are on the few good days riding I have had this summer training as the weather has been farely average this summer.

Statue in Terneuzen Holland looking out to sea.

One of the many canals of Brugge.







God Bless,
Take care,
Chris