Relaxed Week

As the title says, it's been a relaxing week, well, the second half of the week has been relaxing so not too much to write about this week.
Had another Interclub on Wednesday out by Zottegem. I honestly wasn't feeling too motivated for this race. I just played it quite conservatively and sat in the bunch for pretty much the hole race. Only touched the wind maybe 4 - 5 times. I just wanted to go home pretty much and have a couple beers but I rode on. The course we did is used in Tour of Flanders which is the biggest race in Belgium so there's quite a few hard cobble sections and climbs. We did one big lap of about 115k and then had to do 4 laps of a 15km circuit. The finishing circuit was by far the hardest. It had 3 cobble sections, one section being about 1.5 - 2km long I think, and one quite hard steep climb which was directly after the long cobble section. They were some serious cobbles. My fingers were real stiff for about 2 days afterwards and I needed to click them every 30mins or so to relieve the pressure otherwise they would start to ache. Felt like I had arthritis in my fingers. Even though I still wasn't feeling motivated and was just desperate to get a beer in me I rode on and managed to finish I think 76th out of 86 finishes. 190 starters and only 86 finishers... Tough race. I was the only one to finish out of the team but it was pretty stink for 3 of the other riders from the team who were racing because they had just finished Savoie a few days before so they would've been pretty knackered. Zeno and I had bought a 8 pack of Leffe's the day before so as soon as I walked through the door we both cracked open a Leffe. Had a quick shower, hopped on to the towny bikes and rode down to the Frituur to get some fatty food. I finally cracked, I hadn't had frits since I've been here but that's all I felt like. Bought a beer while we waited for our food and knocked it back with dinner. Rode back home, cracked another Leffe open, invited Andrew over for a beer and just chilled. Was pretty nice just having everything that you've wanted for ages likes frits and beer instead of healthy food.
Went for a nice easy ride the next day and then Zeno and I went into Kortrijk for a coffee and then went to the movies afterwards. Got more fatty food at the movies and just enjoyed it really. Saw 22 Jump Street and it was crack up.
Haven't really felt too motivated this week so I decided to have a couple days off riding, do the ol' head and soul some good. It's Monday tomorrow so fresh day, fresh week, fresh start. Got another Tour that I'm probably doing coming up in the next couple weeks so I'll be gearing up for that. Then after that Zeno and I might head off somewhere for a couple days just to get out of the house and have a proper break.
Finally got my computer up and running. The charger snapped in half and a couple days before I went to Savoie I bought a new one. Turns out it didn't fit my computer because the metal bit that charges it wasn't long enough to reach the other metal charger thing in my computer. So I went off to Savoie and thought I would deal with it later. Came home and checked the receipt and it said it had to be returned 15 days after purchase and the day I got home from Savoie was 15 days after I bought it. The closest store was Ghent, where I got it from, and it was coming up to the end of the day so I couldn't return it anymore. 50 euro down the plugger... Or so I thought. Went all Kiwi ingenuity on it and grabbed a knife and carved the plastic back because that's what was stopping the charger from going into the charger hole in the computer. So carved that back enough for the metal bit to touch the other metal bit in my computer. Doesn't fit in there perfectly so a bit of red electric tape will hold it in there nicely. So yea now it works. Good thing is that the charger head can detach from the cable so I can just leave the head taped in the charger hole. O for awesome.
I would chuck up those photos from Savoie but my computer is still being a dick and it's not recognising my phone so I can't get the photos. It's been doing it for ages and I can't figure out why. It does the same thing with my iPod too which is really annoying because I have to listen to the same old music now.
But yea, that's pretty much it. Not too much else to write about. Guess that's it.

Thanks for reading

Nick