Ayup, i'm useless at this blogging! sorry for the inconsistency. It's been a good couple of weeks though, on and off the bike. I've had a few visitors with my brother, his girlfriend and my friends Tom and Harry, we had some good times with bbq's, pedalo boats, and squeezing 5 of us into my small apartment for two weeks! it was good fun and the weather was top notch for pretty much the whole time, so smiles all round.
The first race i did was the stage race organised by my team, i was a bit disappointed at this race because i felt average all weekend, but with 6th,20th and 10th on the three respective stages i managed to come out 4th overall, my third 4th place in three races. The following weekend however was a race that suited me down to the ground; it was a very hard course with 7500ft of climbing in 110km. I felt great on the day and after a flat first half hour or so we reached the first climb it was a hard 4km climb and i went over the top in a group of 7. Eventually after a few hard little climbs, i was away with one other rider and we reached the final climb together. It was a tough one with the first three kilometers at over 17% gradient, and the last 5 kilometers at around 5%. i rode the whole climb alone, and won the race by over two minutes, bagging my first race win in france. I'm pretty chuffed, and with a race that climbs two cols this Sunday i hope i can do a good ride again.
Thanks again to Keith and Ann at Eureka cycles and Scott sports uk, having a great bike that i can rely on has made all the difference, cheers guys!

Ow do! it's been a while; just like when i try to read a book, when i write i have a tendency to feel like falling asleep, so it takes me a while.
Thanks and merci for the comments Joel and Benji. If you fancy reading better written blogs than mine then Joel (joeldavisonracing.blogspot.com) always puts down some good words about his exploits in Belgium. And Benjamin (benjaminolivier.blogspot.com) who is a strong bike rider (that speaks better English than me) from the town of Issoire, and writes about his racing in France in french.
The last couple of weekends were damn good weather and so i went through a few bottles and got some bad tan lines. The races were a little frustrating but went quite well; the first, last weekend, i was in a break with my friend Sebastian and we worked together in the final with him eventually taking the win and me getting killed in the sprint to finish 5th.
This weekend i felt a little better again as i start to get into good shape; and so saturday there was a breakaway of 6 which included my teammate William, so i stayed behind in the peloton, eventually as i felt good, i thought i'd try to bridge the gap after a small climb without bringing too many more riders with me. It took a while with two other riders, but eventually we caught the breakaway; however by this time my friend Sebastian, who is in good shape, had escaped alone and won the race around 5 seconds ahead of my group, where i finished 3rd in the small group sprint, so 4th in the race.
Sunday i felt stronger again and so from early in the race i was in the winning breakaway, and although i tried very hard to escape from the group of six, i couldn't and so was again killed in the sprint to finish 4th, again.
So two weeks and a 5th and two 4th's, although it's not the best places to finish, i feel very good and soon i hope i can win my first race in France (maybe i'll work on the sprint). Next weekend is an important race for my team, it is organised by them and the sponsors that support the team. It is two days with a stage saturday, a time trial on sunday morning, and a stage on sunday afternoon. I've checked out the routes for all the stages and saturday is tough, but the stage on sunday afternoon is very hard with a lot of climbing and so it is here where i hope that i can do a good ride. So there you go, the forms coming good, there are some good races coming up, and on wednesday my brother Josh and his girlfriend Penny are coming to visit for a week, lot's to look forward to!
Also congratulations to Scott who won the lincoln Gp this weekend, looks like he did a cracking ride!
a bientot!