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How often do the weather conditions have to be crap before you stop mentioning them in race blogs? Let’s just say if the conditions carry on much longer in Belgium I’m going to start building an ark! Today didn’t quite go to plan, I’d driven the final 100km on Monday,…

And just like that, it’s done. There’s a huge build up to Ronde van Vlaanderen throughout the Spring and before you know it, it’s over. It won’t go down as an unforgettable edition of the race but was enjoyable none the less. I’m especially happy for Cille getting her third…

The Healthy Ageing Tour ended with lots of laps around the centre of Groningen. Which meant lots of speed walking from one spot to the next. 15km in total if you count the recon lap I did a few hours before the race. It’s days like that where I think…

The travel itinerary for today at the Healthy Ageing Tour: Car ->Ferry->Train->Race and then reverse to get back to the race HQ. It’s a nice trip to Borkum and seeing the racing around the island, but wow it makes for a long day. We left Stadskanaal at 8:30 this morning…

I think it was at the Healthy Ageing Tour in April, where the organisers used a helicopter almost every day to make the coverage of the race a lot more professional. It was a surprise, but what I didn’t expect that helicopters have been popping up left, right and centre…

The week of Scandinavian races has begun! This is my favourite week of the season. The races are well organised, there’s a nice relaxed atmosphere, nice scenery, good food. If you’re thinking of coming to some races this is a great block of racing to visit. Plus there’s a few…

Well that broke up quickly, by the time the race was on the second of six laps there was a group up the road with almost all the top sprinters in it! It’s been a cold week so far and whilst the wind wasn’t as strong as earlier in the…

Inaccurate course information on stages at the Giro Rosa is nothing new. Usually it’s a ‘secret’ climb or they enter a town from a different road to the one stated in the race book. Today’s stage was something else… Unbeknownst to us the race course had been changed. It seems…

We’ve only had a couple of team time trials all year then we get two in less than a week! I’m glad that they decided to split the TTT from the stage race at the Ladies Tour of Norway as I really don’t like team time trials in short stage…