Quick update...

Just thought i'd drop in quickly to blab on a bit on how this weeks gone. Pretty sweet to be honest. Mainly because the weather has been spot on, tshirt, shorts and thongs today! (thongs as in flip-flops of course!) The weekend managed to pass quite quickly even though i wasnt racing, mainly because i could watch 2 local pro races on saturday and sunday. The first, Tour du Finistere starts and finishes in Quimper so was obliged to get out of my hovel and pedal up to meet the rest of the lads out on the finish circuits. The race itself was won by Dimitri Champion from the local conti team Bretagne Schuller in impressive solo style after attacking Voeckler (spelling?! sorry thomas) and co a fair few k's out.

Sunday, the Tro Bro Leon, was a case of legs up and watch it on the tele as it was about an hour and a half away from here, so after an easy 3hr spin on the TT bike and a quick top up of the tan lines (they're coming on a beaut now!) i sat back , cracked open a Bud (hahaha yea right, more like necked a delicious recovery shake and watched how its really done! The race is like a mini paris roubaix however instead of cobbles, they ride on mud/dirt tracks. There's about 24 in total and they made for some good watching, especially when a local training friend from Roubaix Lille Metropole took a pretty hilarious slow-motion tumble over the barriers into the field while trying to cut a corner too tight! He wont live that one down for a while!! The race was rapped up in a sprint finish, with the last breakaway rider getting passed at about 150metres to go, poor sod! Le Vainquer was a one Said Haddou.

The rest of this week has been spent on finishing touches with training before racing from saturday, with a rather hard session on monday and a trip today up to the TT course for the 6th stage. I equiped myself well with lots of directions on firstly how to find the start and then where to head out after that but i knew that it wasnt going to be straight forward! It just never is! To cut a long story short (i need to as i wanna go to bed) i managed to get lost in the start town Douarnenez which really isnt very big at all! and then when i finally found where it started i couldn't work out the first Km or 2! At one point i was heading down a mud path with bomb like craters dotted all over the place thinking .... this isnt a very good TT course... until the road ended abruptly and i nearly ended up riding into a farm barn... "think i went the wrong way back there".

After a few tries i was on the right track and proceeded to find my way correctly round whqt is going to be a testing but pretty fast circuit. Its based on mainly country lanes with a few main roads but the first few km's are mainly uphill so it'll be a case of pacing yourself early and then really winding it up in the 2nd half as it gets a lot quicker on the way back. All in all i think that i could go well there, however i dont expect any kind of real result given the company. We'll see!

Tomorrow i've got an easy rest day which ill spend packing before we head out at 4pm friday avo. I'm really up for it now, especially not racing this weekend it's given me more hunger to get back to speed. I'm sure after a few days of breathing out of my arse i wont be looking forward to the following stages as much but for the moment i can be excited!

11pm! Time for beauty sleep... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

p.s. this is one reason why everybody should do some sort of physical activity:

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!