Ah, Tim Hortons, never ending rolling hills and the worlds largest collection of above ground swimming pools...yes, all of that could only mean 1 thing. I have arrived in the lovely Quebec city and am now await transport down to my home for the next 2 week, The Goergesville hotel, Saint Goerges QC. For the next week I'll be racing Canadas longest running UCI stage race - the Tour de Beauce. For this race however I will be leaving the Raleigh colors in my bag and donning the (newly redesigned) Canadian National team kit. This will be my 5th Beauce in 7 years...feels like I'm dating myself...anyways. It will also be the 2nd time I'll be doing it with the National team and this time I have high hopes that things will go MUCH better than last time! We have a rock star line up featuring some of Canadas brightest protour riders and more improtantly the team will feature 3 of Sandell's most wanted. Should be a fun week, heres hoping to good times and great results!
So, for the past couple of weeks I have been more or less on Vacation....well, actually I'll reword that (my boss reads this sometimes) I have been back home in Beautiful and (oddly) sunny Victoria. With such a solid group of guys on the team this year for the tour series a couple of us were able to sneak away for a little private training and racing to prep us up for the final push on the Premier calendar come July. So? what was I up to the last 2 weeks? Well, Coffee, eatting, catching up with friends, ocen dips, patio beverages, more coffee, a couple of bike races and even managed to sneak in a couple of KOM rides while I was at it! Long story short, I just hit the reset button on the brain and I'm ready to tackle the next 3-4months head on.
That being said this will be my longest race in about a year so hopefully that motivation is ironclad!
Now heres a little photo collective of whats been going on during my time back home. Ridin bikes and loving love.
Enjoy
Rob
