today was a training day. but we sort of got lost. our 3-4 hours or riding turned into 5 and a half. oops. we had a great time though, but i had only enough food for about 2 hours! fortunately, kristin had some euros on her and two chocolate eclairs managed to fuel me on the way home...
it was great riding around though. we were riding easy and just getting a chance to check out the countryside- for the most part. it was gorgeous. tomorrow- we head out to holland for our next series of races. for now though- i am POOPED. it was a long day. check pics on the pics site. i have some new ones from the really cool town that we rode though- brugge (spelling). it was really quite a place.
ps... so i don’t have the energy to give the full story here, but you can imagine that a ride that ends up 5.5 hours probably has some good ones along the way. kristin just came in here and reminded me (i had almost forgotten) that we ended up in some fair/fesitval place at the start of the race in oudinaare (or wherever that was!)... we were pretty damn hungry at that point and the buttocks were not happy to be on the saddle. i had been hungry for over an hour and a half and had a local guy not donated a banana to me earlier (after begging him)- i might not have made it THAT far. we knew that it was at least 30k home after that point and we were in the coffee shop where i proceeded to stuff my face with the two chocolate eclairs... but i was worried that my sugar high would wear off and that it was going to be closer to 60k back. so... i stuff my pockets with sugar cubes- just in case! fortunately chocolate eclairs have enough butter and flour to make it home without resorting to the sugar cubes! but now, i have a plethora of cubes to truck around with me. i might have to start using them in my coffee...
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