in tatters

have you seen dinah's fb status? we are in tatters.. the past week has not treated us too kindly! there has been many ups and downs since the last time!

This is the day by day breakdown!
After the Gosnay battering on monday, Tuesday was a designated day of rest with us going grocery shopping, then off to Decathlon, the local bike shop moto passion, cycle dessy to look for a bicycle bag for the return trip to singapore, then gone to bergues to look for souvenirs to buy back to singapore, before returning home to cook dinner!



Wednesday was the race at Isbergues and Cedric took us there and he and Laurent raced with us, he was still tired from the race at Gosnay and therefore didnt finish the race, marcus won the sprint and i got 3rd but there was a breakaway of more than 30 riders in front. The biggest problem of the race was that Dinah crashed very heavily in the corner. I also had a new miss where i leaned onto a rider until he hit into the hay bails as he tried to cut my line, i had to unclip one leg even.. other than that, it was a uneventful 26 laps race! 84 k in total.

Thursday was a rather lousy day for us too as in the morning we went out for a ride to couderkerque and then just near home, marcus met with a traffic accident, as i was behind him i saw it all happen as he tried to filter left to turn as a car overtook him from behind and hit him, he went down quite heavily as i shouted his name. The driver wanted to claim insurance for his broken mirrors and this let to a very lousy friday which was spent mostly moaping around at the police station, going to the bike shop and so forth.

We had a very nice dinner at Brugel in Bergues on thursday night with Laurent and Cedric. It is a very old traitional Belgian Restaurant!


Saturday was Dinahs race in insanely cold weather and she finished a good place 28th! today was the race at Ardres and marcus finished 20th whilst i pulled out as my legs were frozen..11 degress plus rain..

there are some professional pictures of us racing