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!