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, checking out spots for photos and short cuts. Turns out I should have done the whole course. My planned first short-cut was closed for road works which left us stuck behind the peloton. With the conditions and multiple crashes on seemingly innocuous roads in the early kilometres there was no way we were going to pass the peloton. It was going to be one of those days.
Sunweb definitely seemed to want this one and had the numbers in the groups as the race started to split up on the climbs in the second half of the race. Congrats Ellen!
Next up is the REALLY big one! Ronde van Vlaanderen.