Matt's cycling blog

Is by far the hardest race I've ever been in its mostly D-2 pro teams. Such as Rabbobank and Ag2r.

We took 13th in the team tt. Our lungs were burnt to a crisp after not warming up so didn't fare great but we notched a 13th place.

Stage 1 A pretty hilly course it was pretty drilled from the gun. We turned a corner and the road went straight up at 18. Our driver in the car said it was a small climb pshh guys were all over the place I got in a chase group with Bjorn and caught back on at the base of the next climb. I got in a rythem and stayed in the field till the finish. I tried to go for the field sprint but moving up into the wind left me gassed with 300 meters to go and I ended up 53.

Stage 2

30ks to a set of 7 circuits 18k per lap it was mostly uphill it was hard I got dropped with 3 laps to go. I finished in a 12 rider group 14 minutes off the back of the bunch. I made time cut its pretty touch and go if you get dropped the time cut is only 8% so if you lose more then 20 minutes which if you fall off by yourself that can be pretty easy in the last 40ks.