July 2011
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Some days you just have to suffer. Out training today, it was as if I was riding in a giant, cold shower with freezing water and mud soaking into every one of my pores. I’m not going to lie; it was pretty miserable. Then again, there was satisfaction in the work. In recent weeks, my time on the bike between races has been quite relaxed as I focused on entering competition in a fresh state....
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Yesterday I raced the Omloop Schin op Geul in Limburg. This time the hills were not really anything to write home about but it was windy as all hell. In the neutral section I had a problem with my wheel and had to stop to change it out. I went from the front of the peloton to the back and was way too far arrears when the flag dropped. From there it was lined out, full blast on the tight little...
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I raced the Omloop van de Gilze this afternoon and finished 20th. It was a very different style of race to last week but I jumped back into it pretty decently. I wasn’t on fire; but stayed conservative for most of the day; doing what was necessary to stay in the front but not more. With 50km to go, I hit out to go across to the breakaway; we had been sitting pretty with a team mate in there...
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Yesterday I won the fourth stage of the Arden Challenge. It really is an amazing feeling. Early in the stage I split away with a group of eighteen riders on a long uphill drag and was away for the day. The parcours was in line with the previous three days; featuring hilly, forested roads that led into a set of finishing circuits with a bit of a climb on each lap. I stayed relaxed all day; riding...
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After finishing 11th yesterday in stage 2 by way of another long breakaway in the hills of Wallonie, I started today, the third etappe in 5th on the GC. It was a hard effort, I was feeling the past couple of days in my legs and had to be aware of what the riders close to me in the classification were doing and cover if they tried to go up the road. About 30km in a group of 14 went away including 2...
