It was another freezing day in good all belg, the team went to kit up in the changing rooms but there was no room so we went back to the camper van and got into the kit there. The team swany was laughing at me when I was putting on layer after layer of kit again, while the others were just running the usually.
I saw another New Zealander at the race and had a wee chat to him and found out that he’s sick but can't explain it to his French director so he just keeps on doing races. Not to sure how that will go for him.
The race started off like every other race at this time of the year, with crashes. Dudes were crashing all over the show. Some guys take some massive risks just to move up 2 or maybe 3 spots in the peleton. After about an hour of dodging crashes the break formed in a cross wind section going over the top of a hill. I managed to make it across with 2 of my teammates. The break had about 18 guys in it and that was the wining break to be in. It split with about 40k to go and me and 4 others went up the road and got a minute on the chasing group. With 2 of the 4 local laps completed, 3 other riders came across with one of them being my teammate. The attacks started to happen and my teammate and another got away, so I was just following the attacks. With 1k to go I attacked and got away but one guy just got on my wheel and he pumped me in the sprint so I finished 4th with my teammate 2nd.
During the week I managed to catch up with Tim Gudsell and Craig Geater who are working with pro tour teams this year. They had a race in Roeselare so I went down and had a yarn with them and a quite beer. It was good times catching up with them and talking a bit of kiwi smack to each other.
