Liege Bastogne Liege

Liege with Phil, Rob & Drew

Friday - Busy traffic journey, arrived approx 5pm, cycled over to the Halles to register.


Saturday - Up at 5:30, breakfast and rode to the Halles to the start, damp conditions, rain at times, head wind to Bastogne. Luckily bit of a tail wind back at times on way back. Unbelievable amount of climbing, 4500 metres. Relentless. 10.5 hours ride time. Cote de Stockeu & la redoute were the toughest, Stockeu in particular was 20% for most of it.


Sunday - Eventually found the start of the pro-race, sneaked into the VIP area. Phil pic with David Brailsford! Lunch in centre. Watched final 2 hours of pro race in a bar. Worst recovery ride ever - hammered down! Pizza for evening meal plus a couple of beers!


Monday - Terrible nights sleep, touch of the trotskys! No breakfast, left around 8:15, arrived home 15:00, knackered!

More pictures here...

Cycling

19th April 2015

Myself and Rob lined for the Sussex CA 2 up TT eager to better our disastrous Harting 2up but also to equal last years performance, 3rd overall and 1st Vets. 

The first was very smooth and fairly quick which was promising, alas the cycling gods were not smiling and unbelievably Rob punctured again. I carried on and sure enough if we'd finished we would've  done well. 

Our other team mates did well coming first.

Phil was also racing today in the 90 mile Les Ingham memorial RR with his team mates against top teams. A great ride saw him finish in the top 30.

Cycling

29th March 2015

Myself and Rob Sherrin teamed up for our club's "hurting on Harting" TTT. Wet and extremely windy conditions contributed to an extremely frustrating 23 miles, I wasn't on form and Rob was flying and I struggled big time. Final ingredients for a miserable morning was Rob's gears got stuck and then he punctured, meaning our 2nd best time didn't count! Course was good though.

On a brighter note Phil finished 11th in the Owslebury 2-3 road race.

On a even brighter note the meal at the Milburys was scrummy.