Well its time for my weekly update and an exciting week it has been. Its involved road tripping racing and a real life game of mousetrap but I will get to that. We have finally found a new apartment and will be moving on friday which will be nice. As much fun as it has been living on a chicken farm I think a nice clean apartment will improve moral significantly. I might even be able to shake of this nagging cold I've had for the last 2 months. Hopefully anyway.

I'll start with a race report since it is fresh in my mind. The race was a 135km Kermesse in Kotersem. The course was a flat circut of 8ks to be done 16 times. The race started like any other. With the sound of a gun. And after 2ks I was dissapointed to see no first attack so I decided somebody had to do it so off I went. I managed to go solo for about 3k before turning a corner and surprisingly hitting 300m of the roughest cobbles in belgium. I hit them at about 50km/h and imediatlly my back wheel decides to go for a dance and is skiping back and forth across the road. Thankfully I was first to hit these cobbles because a surprise like that in the middle of the bunch wouldnt have been to much fun. Thankfully after the cobbles I looked back and 6 riders had attacked the peleton and had ridden across to me. We got into a rythem and for the next 5k we drilled it as hard as we could but we couldnt hold the peleton off and were caught after 10k. The next 2 laps went by and nothing really significant happened, then on lap 4 a break of 15 or so went up the road. It quickly got out to 20 secs and held there. Thankfully Ryan had made the break so I need not worry about it. After 20k of holding at 20 secs the peleton finally cracked and the break went away.

I then pretty much went to the front and slowed the bunch down as much as I could and followed and dangerous looking attacks. A few of the riders wernt to pleased with me slowing it down and I took a few headbutts and if you can believe it some guy tried to knee me. So if I ever see number 75 again hes gona be sorry. Anyway the race pretty much progressed like this for the next 10 laps with the occasional attack and the bumpy as cobbles for excitment, and the peleton just finished in a bunch kick which I was'nt really interested in and just rolled in at the back of the peleton. Ryan managed to finish 12th which is a good result considering the calibre of these races. I think we were 3 or so minutes down but not really to sure. But it was a good race and the form is definitly coming along nicely, plus I was finally able to ride the front the entire race so my bunch positioning has definitly improved which is a very important aspect of racing 200 guys.

Now onto the rest of the week... On Tuesday while out training with my teammate Jeon we decided to go for a trip to Maastricht. Maastricht is in the Nederlands but is only 50k away from home and was meant to be a really nice, and nice it was. It is crazy how different the Nederlands is even in 50k. It is so much cleaner and seems to have such a positive vibe. In Maastricht we did a spot of shopping and checked out the about 1000 shoe shops for some sweet pumas but still cant find the ones I want. I also ate raw fish which is something I plan to never do again. It is not the nicest thing ever and the taste of fish in your mouth for the next hour is kinda yuck. After the trip to Maastricht we did what everyone in europe has to do and that is check out the Red light District. It is pretty sick really, a whole lot seedy as guys in an alley way and some drugged fried prostitutes but youve gotta see it at least once. It was a good day though and were currently in the planning stages of our next road trip sometime next week so should be fun.

The one other thing this week worth mentioning is we have a mouse and he is a sly wee thing. We have tried a few homemade traps, we made homemade hooks outa pins and put cheese on them hooping to hook a mouse but he just ate around the hook. I then made a we trap with a cardboard box and a stick so when he pulled the stick he would get trapped in the box but this trap is yet to work. All those years of playing mouse trap didnt seen to help me at all but im gona catch him soon, just gotta outsmart a mouse first.

Anyhow thats about all thats happened really. Didnt get the chance to watch leige Bastonge leige which was abit dissapointing but had to race so what can you do. I'll try keep these updates weekly.

peace out homies