SHEEP

today- we just did a nice little two hour ride to open up the legs for the race tomorrow. we pre-rode the course and it looks to be HARD! it is pancake flat- but the winds will be a bear and we expect that it is going to be very very fast! the area that we are in is much more rural than izegem- so we were riding today through some beautiful wooded areas and out into the countryside more. unfortunately- i did not take pictures of the cute towns that we rode through and the beautiful areas- i took pics of some sheep and in one area where we stopped. but i was not snap happy today.

but i have made and posted a movie. i am not happy with where i decided to film today- since i only brought out my camera when we were riding along a boring area- but i realize that the camera shows the towns better. i am going to be posting movies more often now that i have figured out how to compress them. so, click HERE (or the title picture) to get to the movies. i will change them out on that page, i think, as opposed to putting up too many movies. maybe if i get some good ones, i can throw them up on Utube and feel special. for now though- i will just put them here if you want to see what the riding is like around here.

for the race tomorrow- we do 6 circuits in a figure 8 through the countryside and in and out of small towns. in the towns, we ride on bricks, which after the cobbles on flanders- feel smooth as fresh asphalt! it should not be too bad to race on. in my movie that is posted, i have some film of riding on some cobbles in brugge, but they are NOTHING like the flanders cobbles. i would not be able to hold the camera on those cobbles! anyway, so for now- i am going to try and work on my thesis... got an email from my advisor that reminded me that i still have a day job.

so, for now- that is all. back to work for me and later on, i will focus more on the race tomorrow. will have to take a nice bath and shave my legs and arms (that weird pre-race ritual that i have adopted for races that i am really focused on...). in the mean time- BYE!