To keep this simple my end instead of doing 2 tour de bretagne blogs i'm going to copy and paste one i'm doing for a certain well known UK cycling mag on here too so here goes:
Day 1: New type of racing this Pro malarkey for me! Well it’s still pushing the pedals, but not like the big amateur races I’m used to. It was good to catch up with a few English faces today though as there is a composite GB team here with some old faces from junior years. Anyway… the race. Break of 5 went not too long after the start and then it was feet up for 60k’s where I was tempted to fall asleep from time to time! No, I soon woke up when the race ripped to shreds on a cross wind section and with a crash helping to split the bunch, I was in chasing in the 2nd split. We chased all the way to the finish making contact with the leaders about 5/6km out only for my legs to die while chasing splits at 3k’s out in the crosswinds. I went on to lose 1min20 in the final 3km to the front group of about 40/50 odd, pretty gutted to be honest! With only 3 cat2 (easiest apparently!) climbs today, it was a relatively flat fast stage leaving the wind to do its job, tomorrow though starts to gain some gradient with the finish circuits sure to do some damage with a nasty climb each lap. Legs up now, massage next, then dinner! O yea, the winner was Dennis Van Winden from Rabobank.
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keep it going, all you need to think of while getting up that hill is Miss Thornhill's saggies 50 yards infront. I find it helps.
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