Loenhout

Yesterday we had a race in Leoenhout. It rained the night before and a little that morning to make for a greasy race coarse. The course was awesome, it had at least three wooden bridges made just for spectators to easily move about the course. The other unique part of the course was that there were BMX jumps and a rhythm section. This made for a different but fun course than I have ever seen. It originally was a very fast coarse but with the mud it made for sludge in some spots then fast muddy straight sections into plenty of slick greasy corners. It was a hard yet fun day on the bike. After our race we headed back to the house and watched the elite race on TV. It was an unbelievable race because two of the top five were not even in the pro category, they were under 23 racers. Including the winner by about 30 seconds over Sven Nys, Neils Albert. It wasn't the most exciting race because Albert was of the front about the whole race. The unbelievable part is he is only 20 years old and has another year as an under 23. Other than our race and watching the elite race we didn't do too much. We once again had a great big and delicious dinner cooked up by our great "house mom", Els. Just to show how laid back today was me and Steve went to bed watching Leave it to Beaver. Well now we have two days of no racing so we will go out and get lost riding our bikes. Next we race on Sunday in Diegem. Before I forget the picture below is Steve's front carbon wheel that he literally shattered in two places while preriding the course. Apparently he was warming up on the rhythm section and turned his wheel slightly sideways and crunched his wheel sending him over the handle bars. Good thing you got that taken care of before the race because he had a great race afterwards.

-Sean