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A Hard Week in the Ardennes, 29 April 2008
For the past 10 days I’ve been up in Belgium and Holland tackling 3 of the hardest and most prestigious one day races on the calendar. I was very focused going into the week as a result in these three races was my first objective for the season. After claiming the second stage of Criterium International a couple of weeks ago, I was feeling confident of my form and was hoping to achieve some good results.
Amstel Gold is probably my favourite one day race of the season. Amstel has 31 catergorised climbs and is know as the race of 1000 corners (there’s not that many). I really enjoy racing over this sort of course, and there’s always a huge crowd of really enthusiastic (and really drunk) spectators creating a great atmosphere. So I was super motivated. I started the day with the full support of my team who did a good job looking after me for as long as possible. With 25km left to race the peloton was down to around 40 riders, then with 15km to go the front group broke up. I just missed the front split of 9 riders ending up in a chasing group of 10 guys, we arrived 45 seconds behind the winner, I finished in 12th place... [read more]
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