Doubling up on things always seem heaps cooler then just doing things once, so when the DS asked whether I wanted to race two days instead of one I said “alright sounds good”.

First race was meiprijs – Ereprijs Victor De Bruyne or Hobokken to the locals. It ended out to be an ok race, in the way that my form is starting to came better. I spent 170ish of the 190ish kilometer off the front, first in a group of 3 then a group of 20 or so. The group was represented by most of the strong teams, but on the finishing laps the attacks started and it broke up, and the pace was not as steady as it was when the group was working together so it got caught with 8 kilometers to go, and I was not very impressed that we got caught. I had just ridden over to the front split of 5 and then looked back to see what was going on and there was the peleton - boo to the peleton. So I sat up and finished in the bunch and a bit tweaked from the days effort. That was normal when you’re tapping along at 45kmh for 4 hours.

 

The second day was up the top of Holland, not so exciting. Had to drive 3 hours after the first days racing then early start, but had a sweet breakfast spread at the hotel. I packed in enough food for 3 days that morning – awesome.
The race was one to remember, not on a pleasant note though, as my team mate crashed and was in a coma for a few days, so it was not so good in that way.
The race finished in a bunch sprint and in the last kilometer another bunch sprint crash, just not a thing I’m really up for and that is crashing in a bunch sprint at 50-60kmh, I left it to the others.
Once the race had finished I found out about my team mate and was a bit taken aback by it, the crash happened when we were only going about 35kmh, was freaky that it happened like that.