Today's ride was a Saturday crit down at Cyclpark, lasting an hour and half, it was sunny and windy, perfect conditions for a hard race, however unlike Thursday night, this afternoon did not go according to plan. Eventually after 50mins three riders got away never to be seen again with neither me nor Phil in the break, with about 15mins to go another 2 got away with both me and Phil again, unable to follow and so I got second in the bunch kick coming 7th. Not too bad, but hopefully tomorrow me and Phil can go better.

I tried a few attacks and so did Phil, but to no avail, but that's bike racing for you, you can't win/ do well in them all. I did try to save myself as best as I could for tomorrow, but I was feeling Thursday night's effort a lot in today's race so fingers crossed I have good legs tomorrow.

If anyone's interested Phil is the team manager and owner of Aprire Bicycles who make beautiful, made-to-measure carbon fibre bikes, fortunately I'm on the team and am riding their top of the range Vincenza model with an Ultegra groupset on Reynolds Assaults as my wheel of choice. Check out the website here http://www.aprirebicycles.com/

On another note, not only is Belgium a great place to race, but a town called Edegem in East Flanders is also where one of the greatest DJs on Earth comes from, Netsky. Just another little incentive to go over there to race if ever there was one, here's one of Netsky's biggest tracks, I absolutely adored this tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE9Ai7kzl8

Anyway better go and recuperate as best I can for tomorrow's 85mile road race, the South East Road Racing League's Championships, I will let you know how it goes, wish me luck :).