Currently I’m in Flanders. For the non cycling saavy, there is an enormous professional race going on today. It’s called the Tour of Flanders or as they say in Freaky Deaky Dutch “De Ronde Van Vlaanderen”. It’s northern Belgium’s bread and butter race, picture a traveling Super Bowl. If you are a professional, you can plan on a real long day at the office, over 260K long, but if you’re an amateur you can count on a rest day because there are no other races going on. The rest day came welcome in my schedule after a good training week and a couple of races, I was more than ready to shut ‘er down and get everything back to neutral. Especially when this was the view out of the kitchen window this morning.
Don’t worry, that’s not snow it is hail. It’s a wonderful feeling looking out the window at the Belgian countryside covered in hail knowing that all I need to do is knock this out before it gets cold.
Maybe I’ll even do two.
Other than that there isn’t too much going on here on the East side of the Atlantic. I’m getting into a nice training and racing groove, and hopefully the good results are soon to follow.
On a side note, I have picked up a nice little ’staying warm’ trick. It’s all about the warming creme. That’s not the secret, the important part is placement of the creme. Obviously, putting it on any bare skin is a good idea and maybe some extra on the knees, but the most important area, the base of the spine. A dab of embrocation on the spine will do you wonders. Of course, only people in Belgium need to worry about staying warm in April, but file it away for cross season.
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