Wet n Wild Cobble Mania

Well it's pouring with rain and fairly cold outside so today I've just chilled out, cleaned up the house and I'm currently watching the Tour de France. Had a big race yesterday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad which is a pretty big UCI amateur race. It was in the same region as the race I did last Wednesday in Zottegem so lots of cobbles and lots of steep punchy climbs. It was a rainy cold day, bit like today, so from the get go it was all pretty sketchy. My legs felt terrible for the first hour or so and I had really bad positioning because I basically couldn't move up cause my legs just wouldn't let me. Got caught up in a small crash and hit the deck but got up straight away fairly unscathed. Just a wittle scwatch on my ankle. After doing a few cobble sections I think all the cob webs got rattled out of my legs, was feeling a lot better. But because of my poor positioning I missed the main split so a bunch of us had to ride pretty hard to catch back up. Finally made it back to the main bunch and at this point there was only about 80 odd riders left out of the 190 starters and we were only halfway through the 170km course. Going up one of the climbs I just didn't have the legs to follow another big split so I rolled around the second group for most of the remaining race. On the last lap of the finishing circuit I rode away with a couple other riders from the remaining group of about 30 riders and ended up 42nd out of the 69 finishers. Was definitely up there as the hardest race I've done, had to really dig deep in the last 10k when I rode away from the bunch with those couple other guys. Quite a short run down of the race but that was pretty much it. Bit of carnage but I managed to miss most of it except for that one crash. Quite a few Kiwi boys were racing it too like Zeno, Tom Vessey, Hamish Schreurs and a few others. They all had a bit of bad luck with getting caught up behind crashes or punctures or broken equipment. Had a good sleep last night though.
Honestly didn't do too much exciting this week. Just been riding a bit and gearing up for the Tour des 2 Sevres in France next Friday. 3 day tour so hopefully I go good in this one, will be nice to get a good result.
But yea just trying to think of something to write but I got nothing.
So I guess that's it.

Thanks for reading

Nick