Weekend in Belgium

After Spending Saturday lounging around the house, Sunday I headed off at 7:30 for a race in Strijpen, Belgium. It took 4 hours to get there however a lot of British juniors made the trip including a team from yorkshire. I went with John Barclay who takes over British Juniors almost weekend.

The race (90k, 10 laps) started fast and fortunately I was near the front. A break of five went up the road early which Joe Perrett and I bridged across to. This break was then joined by ones and twos until it was about 20 riders strong. For the next few laps, attacks whittled the group down to 10 riders. With 20k to go one rider attacked but our group kept chasing fairly well- knowing he would tire. Unlucky for us, he didn't and went on to win by 50 seconds. Our group ended in a bunch sprint which I screwed up by following the one guy who didn't bother. I came 7th in the sprint so 8th in the race. Erick Rowsell came 2nd and Joe Perrett came in 5th.

A bit a of a frustrating race as I direly need a win after loads of 2nd, 3rds, and top 10s this season. Hopefully some of the coming races will provide me with a win.

See the results at:http://www.wielerbondvlaanderen.be/

Follow the link for Uitslagen and 20/7/08, and scroll down till you can see the junior Stripjen race.

Next race is Hillingdon on Tuesday and this weekend is a stage race in German which you can look at on the website:

http://internationale-niedersachsen-rundfahrt.net/html/presse08juniorenrundfahrt.html

In other news the same guy French guy who own the European Road Race just won the World Road Race in South Africa.

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