This race should be renamed omloop van het wetland. The whole race was wet, from the start to the finish. It was a magic day of racing in belg. It was 190km with 3 big laps of 27k then 9 small laps of 12km. Every lap had multiple amounts of cobble sections and multiple amounts of crashes. On the first cobble section just after 3km I punctured my front wheel and had to experience the first big lap chasing to get back into the front group after the peleton was split into different groups from crashes and cross wind. I got back into the front group and sat last wheel for the rest of the big laps. Riders were still crashing in some weird places but mostly on the cobbles.

Once we got onto the small laps I managed to move up to the front of the peleton but that made no difference and dudes were still crashing. With 3 laps to go I got into a break that looked good but it only stayed away for half a lap before Topsport Vlaanderen brought it back together. A few more attacks went but everything came back together so it was down to a mass sprint in the wet with a round-about to negotiate just before the kilometer to go sign, then some traffic islands and a speed hump with 200 meters to go. So I let the sprinters go at it and finished in the middle of the peleton in one piece and having dodged all the crashes which I was stoked about.

It was a magic wee hit out before getting into a 7 day tour next week, just need to clean all the crap out of my eyes first, then get some new brake pads.

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