Technical Difficulties
Sunday 30 April 2017 Waking up this morning after our third night in Antwerpen, I finally began feeling human again and had the itch to Dani for a spin. I had planned for my first race to be tomorrow in Meigem. A 1.12B race, which I know is going to rip my legs off after more than a week off the bike. I think it must have been all the Tour Durban activities popping up in my Strava feed which pushed the urge to race over the edge and I began making arrangements. True enough, a small race in Zingem (20km outside of Gent – where I had left my wheels earlier in the week), was on in the afternoon. Not quite 1.12B level, but by all accounts the level of competition is tough across the board in Flanders. At 66km in length, this race would be presumably be hard from the gun, and the aim was to hopefully hang on for an hour. Traveling may or may not have added some kilograms to the waistline. To-date, Lu has been handling all the public transport arrangements. She is a master of the ...