Lots going on

Plenty of photo's below of Kutztown!

All of us arrived here sweet, settled in, knuckled down into some training and racing, and now this Saturday I'm off to Belgium already!

I got the call that BikeNZ wanted me to head to Belgium early (was scheduled to leave USA July 9th) for two 180km Interclub races which are next Wednesday and Saturday, then onto a "power block camp" on the track in Belgium, pre-Commonwealth Games for the team pursuit boys, and the other two male endurance riders for the Games will be named mid-July. Then I have scheduled two 180km Interclub race's in Belgium within a week of me arriving! Other than that I'm not sure what else is planned in Belgium apart from lots of Kermese races which are 100-120km circuit races around 4-8km laps, good, solid, hard racing.

The first week in Kutztown went pretty well. We had our first Friday night of track racing, my track legs were better than I thought they were going to be! Chad, Hayden and myself all rode well, dominated most of the racing and Chad won the feature event of the night - 10 Mile Scratch race. Below is a few pics from Kutztown and the first night of racing... Including Chad's "Crowd Preme" which I ended up with after we split the winnings of the night!

I raced in Harlem on Sunday, the Harlem Skyscraper Criterium. It was a 0.8mile square circuit, 60 laps, 50miles/84km, with over 100 starters. The clouds decided to open and pissed down the last 10mins of the womens race, which was 10mins before we started! The road was like glass with guys going down left right and center the first 15laps.

A break of 2 germans went in the first 5 laps and got a gap up to 30seconds, we were racing for thirds I was had good position with 3 laps to go, but a big crash went down behind me and I decided to pull the pin and sit up, finish the race, and not crash! I really don't need another crash at the moment...

This Friday is track racing again, with 2 madisons which I am looking forward to! My next post will probably come from when I am in Belgium... Until then there is some photo's below to look at.

Ciao