New Year in Belgium

Has been a while since my last post so thought i'd keep you up to date with what I have been up to..

Year started off up and down with breaking my collarbone in late Jan which shut my chances of the track down for the year, but since then things have been on the up!

I manage to get a ride on a Belgium team for the season with 'Royal Antwerp Bicycle Club'. I Left NZ on the 6th of May after a great summer of relaxing and racing in NZ. Since getting here I have raced 3 kermesses, 2 interclubs and a 1.2 GP Van Coningsloo with the national team. The form is good and definitely on the up along with the confidence which is good. Managed to get a start with the National team at a 1.2 last Sunday. Was a fun race riding along side my mates and Michael Vink won it so everyone was buzzing. I was in the front split and came in 41st after leading a fellow kiwi out for the bunch sprint. A few celebratory beers in the square in Oudenaarde then back to work.

I have a few Interclubs coming up on the 11th, 16th and 18th so that will be a solid block of racing and looking forward to it!

Living in  Heide, Kalmthout with a team mate in a 2 bedroom apartment which is a pretty sweet set up. His Dad takes me out behind the Scooter motorpacing up in Holland as I am only living 5km from the dutch border, which is ideal.

Summer has finally hit Belgium and it's nothing but blue skies today and hopefully this week so will make the most of the sunshine and get some good training in.

The National team was happy with my performance at Van Coningsloo so hopefully some more racing with them is on the horizon.

Cheers
Fraser