Hi!!
Well, I know its been a while and some of you were wondering if I am in fact still alive… and I can assure you I am, but havent quite had the time or patience to write on this thing!
Anyway as you all might know by now we arrived in Montreal on the 30th May no problems! And our first race was on the Saturday (5 days after the 10 day tour), the Montreal world cup! and as some might know it was a bad experience and I really dont want to talk bout it! Long story short I got dropped and pulled out! :( The atmosphere was pretty amazing and the crowd was awesome but just cracked….. bugger aye!!
Right next we had 1 day off and then a 4 day tour round the Montreal area!
Stage 1. 107Km Road Race, An absolutely crazy circuit with like 21 turns in a 13.5km circuit, pot holes, wet and crazy!!!! still managed to get dropped twice but struggled back on!!Nothing too exciting just finished in the bunch!
Stage 2. 104km Completely oppostie to yesterday, like 6 turns in 10 km , smooth sweet roads! BUT……… had torrential downpour, thuner, lightning!! Oh man next time taking my goggles and snorkel!! its was nuts, again, had a great time in caravan….. dropped and then struggled back on!! …….. Grrrr
Stage 3 3.5Km TT Nothing to say just rode average and finished average!
Stage 4 50km Crit! basically the first goal was not to get dropped int he first 25 laps or youre out of the tour! so that was sweet! I was hanging on the back most of the race, then got a puncture! got back in, in the front of the pack…. then attacked (apparently youre not supposed to do that!! oops…), anyway got a preme $100 NICE!! but that was bout it! …Just finished in the bunch!!
Stage 5 115km Road race!! 5 laps…. thought I was history after the first climb, but Nope, hung on and actually had a few attacks off the front and 1.5 laps to go had a gap of bout 45sec, then came the hill and ….. “PING” there goes my legs!! grrrr….. but hey still hung on and finished just behind the bunch!! all good! FINISHED!!
Although I aitn exaclt producing amazing results Im trying…… really trying……. and its frustrating!! and I can assure you all that alot of the time i’m just sitting there thinking what the hell am I doing here…. but I gotta keep remind myself that it will get better and one day something good will happen!!
Righto, right now we are racing in Tour de P.E.I 5 days!! check out on www.cyclingnews.com see whats on there!!
Anyway enough about me! take care all and keep writing to me!!:)
