The Effects of True Belgian Weather

after spending 2 soggy days out in the rain, on saturday the inevitable happened. I coughed up kermit the frog :( Saturdays race was a Kermese in a town by the name of Torhout, with a course length of 4.8km and 24 laps to complete. After the usual hectic start i knew it wasnt going to be a good race, i was well positioned at the front but could feel that my chest/lungs were not right. After a few more laps i decided to pack and head back to the team car, where i proceeded to cough for 5 mins :( producing crap in all shades of green.
after riding home i let the team manager know i was not feeling right, but with the following day being a rest day the plan of attack was to see how it went before deciding what to do on monday.So we headed into brugge where we had a beer in a tea room overlooking the "Bootleg Beatles" concert which was taking place on the Ronde Van Vlanderen stage

"The local Beer of Brugge" (canadian team mate Jannes "cyclo-sportif" Wessels in background)


"The effects of my first beer in 1 and 1/4 years"



"Brugge town Squere on the eve of the Ronde Van Vlanderen"






It was just as well i went into brugge to see that atmosphere on the eve of the race, because i would be dissapointed the morning of the race when i waked to the bus stop only find that the bussed do not start until 10.30am on a sunday, with the race's start time being 9.45.