Sunday Races

This was Sunday no work and no real stress. We slept in a bit, had a good breakfast and then drove over to a friend's of Robert's who is a pro cyclist on Steve Bauer has started. Lots of good cyclist on that team up and coming pro's who's names will be heard in the future.

Then we came back dawned our cycling kits, we both without knowing have our Paris 1880 team kits so we look like totally cool. We drove to the other side of Lille parked and rode in to Belgium to watch the Gent-Wevelgem race, our plan was to "jump" the loop but we got out of the house a little late so we rode to the Kammelberg climb and watch from the bottom the riders. After Cavendish went by we hopped on our bikes and rode to another point on the race then we ascended up the backside of the Kammelberg and the final bit was a 22% cobbled climb and we watched the pros and the took the second lap. After this we rode out and around for about an hour then came back and rode the Kammelberg ourselves, beer tent patrons were there to cheer us on, almost like we were in the race... At last we then descended the hill and rode back to the car. With some computer problems turning off during the ride we guess we got about a 3 hour ride in.

To night we drove into Lille's one of two train stations and picked up Craig and are ready for work tomorrow.