Saturday 12 May 2012
Thursday 3 May 2012
Elissa Bargh
This blog is dedicated to you Elissa. Matt might be too cool to give you a shout out but I'm not. Haha
Anyway, one month in and I'm still alive...but only just. I've been pumping out the races recently but unfortunately haven't pulled any results for a while. Just lacking a bit of top end as well as luck at the moment. But I still tend to come away from most races with a huge 10 euros in winnings. We had a race a few days ago and it was good to see little Spaghetti (aka Tom Delany in there). Still struggling to get over the fact that I let him roll me. But in my defense I did nearly lose my back wheel because of a dodgey scewer. I'd have to say I was in contention for crowd pleaser of the day after I got a few OOH's and AAH's when I just about took out a few posts and a crowd of people on the finishing straight.
In the last few weeks I've developed a taste for Belgium roads. Never mind the sketchy narrow lanes we race on with 130+ others, the training rides are proving much more dangerous. Last week I was out for a spin with my teammate Joe in typical Belgium weather (rain and wind). We were riding on a cobbled road when a car hit the brakes in fornt of us. I was only running the rear brake as my front had broken in the race the day before. So it pretty much goes like this: cobbles + rain + speed + one brake = stackage. I slid a fair few metres but luckily the bike was sweet and the kit stayed together!
Joe has been having a bit of trouble on the technical circuits lately so decided he'd do a day of practising cornering. And beeing the good guy I am I agreed to help him out a bit. So we found a little circuit and smashed corners all day. On the last lap it had just started raining and I hit a corner at pace and sure enough, laid it right over. The truth is Joe had me in the box and I just needed an excuse for a lie down. This time I wasn't so lucky, bent derailleur hanger and ripped up the kit a bit (including Joel's leg warmers). Luckily Joel still has trouble reading. Our team director owns the local bike shop so I think he's pretty stoked with all the business I give him.
Our team manager (Chris) has turned out to be a total good sort. He calls us his sons now. A few weeks ago we did a race and all the favourties went up the road. Apparently all the spectators were saying it was race over but Chris told them his sons were in the peloton and we'd bring it back. And sure enough Matt and I manged to bring it back with a bit of help from one or two others. That night he shouted us to the movies (which were in English) and then shjouted a round at the bar after.
The wife hunt is pretty non existent to be honest. I'm sure she's out there somewhere but I haven't really met many people our own age yet. So I'm battling on washing my own dishes and cleaning my own bike but I'll try a few birthday wishes this weekend and we'll see how that goes.
That's about all the excitement I've got today folks.
Bam Bam
Anyway, one month in and I'm still alive...but only just. I've been pumping out the races recently but unfortunately haven't pulled any results for a while. Just lacking a bit of top end as well as luck at the moment. But I still tend to come away from most races with a huge 10 euros in winnings. We had a race a few days ago and it was good to see little Spaghetti (aka Tom Delany in there). Still struggling to get over the fact that I let him roll me. But in my defense I did nearly lose my back wheel because of a dodgey scewer. I'd have to say I was in contention for crowd pleaser of the day after I got a few OOH's and AAH's when I just about took out a few posts and a crowd of people on the finishing straight.
In the last few weeks I've developed a taste for Belgium roads. Never mind the sketchy narrow lanes we race on with 130+ others, the training rides are proving much more dangerous. Last week I was out for a spin with my teammate Joe in typical Belgium weather (rain and wind). We were riding on a cobbled road when a car hit the brakes in fornt of us. I was only running the rear brake as my front had broken in the race the day before. So it pretty much goes like this: cobbles + rain + speed + one brake = stackage. I slid a fair few metres but luckily the bike was sweet and the kit stayed together!
Joe has been having a bit of trouble on the technical circuits lately so decided he'd do a day of practising cornering. And beeing the good guy I am I agreed to help him out a bit. So we found a little circuit and smashed corners all day. On the last lap it had just started raining and I hit a corner at pace and sure enough, laid it right over. The truth is Joe had me in the box and I just needed an excuse for a lie down. This time I wasn't so lucky, bent derailleur hanger and ripped up the kit a bit (including Joel's leg warmers). Luckily Joel still has trouble reading. Our team director owns the local bike shop so I think he's pretty stoked with all the business I give him.
Our team manager (Chris) has turned out to be a total good sort. He calls us his sons now. A few weeks ago we did a race and all the favourties went up the road. Apparently all the spectators were saying it was race over but Chris told them his sons were in the peloton and we'd bring it back. And sure enough Matt and I manged to bring it back with a bit of help from one or two others. That night he shouted us to the movies (which were in English) and then shjouted a round at the bar after.
The wife hunt is pretty non existent to be honest. I'm sure she's out there somewhere but I haven't really met many people our own age yet. So I'm battling on washing my own dishes and cleaning my own bike but I'll try a few birthday wishes this weekend and we'll see how that goes.
That's about all the excitement I've got today folks.
Bam Bam
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