Summer time
Riding wise it has been a pretty average week but it's been pretty good fun. Monday was a really nice day and the sun was out so Zeno and I decided to go down to Kortrijk in the morning for the Kortrijk markets and I was hoping that the coffee truck lady was still there from last year so that we could grab a coffee. Got to the centre where the markets were last year and it was completely empty. I figured they didn't have the Kortrijk markets on Monday morning anymore so we just decided to wander round town for a bit and try find a nice coffee shop. While looking for a place for a coffee we stumbled across the market, they just decided to move. We walked through it all but couldn't find the coffee lady and her truck. It was mainly tacky clothes and cheap sunglasses. Could only find one pastry truck and it didn't even look that good. We decided to keep walking round and we indeed up in the mall and had a look around there but there was nothing really. Then Zeno said should we just go to Brugge. Zeno said that we could apparently get train tickets for 6euro because we are under 25. It was a nice day so why not. Got to the train station still laughing about our last minute decision and there was a train that left for Brugge in 5 mins, perfect! Got on the train. We're off to Brugge. Decided to have a screw it day and not ride and eat heaps of food. First thing we did when we got to Brugge is got a fresh waffle with strawberries on top. That was good under the hot sun. She was busy in Brugge as well for a Monday afternoon. Next thing on the list to do in Brugge; smash back some chocolate. Went to a chocolate shop and bought 16 bite size pieces of flavoured chocolate to share. (We weren't going that hard on our 'screw it, YOLO', day to eat 16 pieces of chocolate.) Got some coffee chocolates, hazelnut, orange, lemon, mousse and a few other ones. Bloody good. Had bit more of a wander around and decided to head back to a cafe that we saw that had a barrister. Grabbed a pretty average coffee and a sandwich there. It was a bakery cafe which was real dangerous for us because they had some pretty choice looking stuff in there. Banoffee pie! Drooooooool. I resisted though and got out of there ASAP. Did a bit more walking and sightseeing then went to restaurant cafe and ordered a beer with Fritz. No better way to finish off a 'screw it, YOLO' day than with a Leffe and Fritz. After that we hoped back on the train for Kortrijk. On the way home we stopped at the other Kortrijk mall cause Zeno wanted to get a backpack so we went to Sports Direct which is basically rebel sport but tackier and at the front counter they had playing cards for 70 odd cents. Now we are having family games of cards at night when the internet dies on us. Wifi is really shitty here and it turns off randomly and you have to fiddle with the modem to get it going again and that lives in Andrew's house and a lot of the time he's not home. I normally stay on my computer downstairs while some of the guys go up stairs then you see the internet is down on your computer so we just yell out "family game of cards!" And everyone comes down and we normally play cards until it's 'muesli time'. Everyone has muesli before we go to bed cause we hungry. But yea we've had some pretty good games of Scum and Spoons and we played some other random card game the other night. One day we'll learn how to play poker and then were gonna bet our waffles. Weather was real average from Tuesday till Thursday with rain and thunderstorms and cold. Friday was really nice so I decided to my Power test that I had to do for my coach. I recently go a Power Meter which measures how much power you are producing when you pedal and it measures it out in Watts. They are really handy to have cause you can really monitor on how your training is going and to see how hard your are riding and how hard you have to ride. So I had to do a test so we know how many Watts I should be training at because everyone trains at different Watts. I had to do a fun 1 hour time trial and I was pretty wrecked afterwards. Had to dig deep in the last 20 mins. Grabbed a coffee in Kortrijk on the way home and sat in the sun for about 45mins. Didn't want to leave, was so nice chilling in the sun. That night Andrew got all of us out and we chucked the rugby ball around in the backyard. We'll have a match soon. Saturday was a bloody hot day and we decided to go out and race in it. It wasn't too bad to race in cause there was a coolish wind blowing but it was really dry and I ran out of water fairly quick. I was feeling alright just rolling around in the bunch but then I tried to follow a move that went up the road and had to bridge the gap, that was hard. Thats when I realised my legs felt terrible. Felt like I had nothing in them and that was pretty much my day done. We got pulled out of the race with about 35km to go because the break got too far ahead. A lot of people dropped out early cause of the heat i think because it wasn't that hard of the race, I was still just wrecked from my test that I did the day before. Some of the boys are racing today as well but I was still feeling pretty smashed so I decided to go for an old spin by myself, wasn't feeling it today.
But I'm off to France this week. There's a big tour up in the alps. It's called Tour des Pays de Savoie and it's a climbers race. I'm not sure if I'm doing the race but I'm still going to go down there because it's a very cycling famous part of France with climbs like Alpe d'huez and I want to ride some of those famous climbs. I also just want to get out of the house and see somewhere new. I'll be down there for about 2 weeks and its a 9 hour drive so it's a long bloody way. I'll find out if I'm doing it in the next couple days i guess cause we leave Thursday.
But yea thats pretty much it from me. Laptop charger is broken so that's pretty shit, can't use my laptop at the moment. The charger end just snapped right off. Heard the All Blacks just beat England cheers to Conrad for that late try. Got no wifi at the moment and I'm writing this in the sun on my iPad. I'm writing this in my notes on my iPad and I was going to copy and paste it on to my blog when the internet comes back on so hopefully I can remember my password for my blog cause on my computer I'm always logged in to my blog site.
But yea that's all folks.
Thanks for reading
Nick
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