Friday, June 15, 2007
Matt Brammeiers Great Month of May !!
Good day everyone,
Well here goes with another tale of the life of Matt Brammeier. May is well and truly over and to be honest I haven’t had the best of months. It all started well with a bit of a result in an amateur kermess in Glabbeek. Id had a bit of a bad day in the Ronde a few days ago so was pretty keen to do something today. Anyway I managed to get my arse into gear and get in the break of 12 riders which split to 6 and then 4 with about 15 ks to go. I was feeling pretty good and didn’t really have to make any big efforts at all so was starting to think about how I was going to try to win my first bike race of 2007. Before I could come up with a plan I was informed by one of the riders that he wanted to win, as the race finished in his home town. So after a bit of talking I had no choice but to let him ride away and take the win. I rolled in to take 2nd place which was still quite pleasing but I honestly think I had the win in me today.
Next on the cards was a trip to the dentist. As I explained in my last ramble it wasn’t the best of experiences and my legs and form certainly didn’t see any benefits in the following weeks. I struggled round my next race 4 days later in Mal and somehow managed to finish inside the top 10 in 7th place.
After that was a bit of a dry patch in the way of races with the team, I was given a bit of time to train and recover from my tooth before my next big race at Hasselt Spa Hasselt a Belgian Top Competition race.
Before hand I had a dabble in a couple of kermess races back to back not far from home. The first day of two wasn’t great, the race slit after roughly 500 meters and 6 guys rode away to never be seen again, I worked hard in the 2nd group trying my up most to get the fuckers back but it wasn’t to be and I finished 9th about 1 min down on the winner.
I enjoyed the small, concrete, narrow, bumpy and muddy roads of Bornem that much that I decided to return the next day for a 2nd days of racing on exactly the same course at the same time with near enough the same riders. Today I made sure I was at the front at the start and hit the crosswinds in 2nd spot. I was pretty determined to get in the “kop” group today so rode flat out for as long as I could into the crosswinds. Luckily enough my plan worked and about 15 of us went away. Unfortunately the legs weren’t too good today at the finish and I struggled in in 10th place. But a top 10 was good enough for me today, about what I expected so I want feeling too suicidal.
3 days and another illness later I was at the start line in Hasselt unsure on how I would feel. A few of the girls in the house had been sick and I wasn’t feeling 100% so I was taking it as it came. After 80ks my chest felt slightly tight so I made a quick exit and got off at the feed.
After that came 4 days of the bike and 7 days with no serious training with a virus which was pretty hard to take as I was just on my way back after the tooth. A bit too much to soon maybe or maybe just too many germs floating round in the house. Who knows!!
Soon enough I was back on the bike and feeling healthy again, a few days of easy riding and I was ready to race again. I had the option a Pro crit in Keulen Germany to ride so thought I would give it a bash. Didn’t want to push it too hard though so just rode round in the bunch for 100ks and got a pretty good work out with a few of Germanys top renners dishing it out at the front.
At the start of the year I decided on having a mid season break away from the bike to freshen up a bit mentally and have a bit of a chill. Unfortunately it was planned for the end of May, just when I wanted to be riding my bike and getting stuck in. But I know in October when im still pinning my numbers on ill be happy I took these days off. So me and the wife set off too Paris for 3 days for a quick look around the city and a day at Euro Disney. As you can imagine we had a great time and all ran with out disaster. All until I got back and found my car had been towed! 3 hrs later at 1am and 200 euros down I got the thing back. I don’t think Ill Park on a zebra crossing in a town centre for 3 days again hey!!!
Anyway im getting a bit fed up of writing words like unfortunately over and over and telling you all how sick ive been so its time to get the ball rolling and get some form back!
Until then
Chow Chow
Well here goes with another tale of the life of Matt Brammeier. May is well and truly over and to be honest I haven’t had the best of months. It all started well with a bit of a result in an amateur kermess in Glabbeek. Id had a bit of a bad day in the Ronde a few days ago so was pretty keen to do something today. Anyway I managed to get my arse into gear and get in the break of 12 riders which split to 6 and then 4 with about 15 ks to go. I was feeling pretty good and didn’t really have to make any big efforts at all so was starting to think about how I was going to try to win my first bike race of 2007. Before I could come up with a plan I was informed by one of the riders that he wanted to win, as the race finished in his home town. So after a bit of talking I had no choice but to let him ride away and take the win. I rolled in to take 2nd place which was still quite pleasing but I honestly think I had the win in me today.
Next on the cards was a trip to the dentist. As I explained in my last ramble it wasn’t the best of experiences and my legs and form certainly didn’t see any benefits in the following weeks. I struggled round my next race 4 days later in Mal and somehow managed to finish inside the top 10 in 7th place.
After that was a bit of a dry patch in the way of races with the team, I was given a bit of time to train and recover from my tooth before my next big race at Hasselt Spa Hasselt a Belgian Top Competition race.
Before hand I had a dabble in a couple of kermess races back to back not far from home. The first day of two wasn’t great, the race slit after roughly 500 meters and 6 guys rode away to never be seen again, I worked hard in the 2nd group trying my up most to get the fuckers back but it wasn’t to be and I finished 9th about 1 min down on the winner.
I enjoyed the small, concrete, narrow, bumpy and muddy roads of Bornem that much that I decided to return the next day for a 2nd days of racing on exactly the same course at the same time with near enough the same riders. Today I made sure I was at the front at the start and hit the crosswinds in 2nd spot. I was pretty determined to get in the “kop” group today so rode flat out for as long as I could into the crosswinds. Luckily enough my plan worked and about 15 of us went away. Unfortunately the legs weren’t too good today at the finish and I struggled in in 10th place. But a top 10 was good enough for me today, about what I expected so I want feeling too suicidal.
3 days and another illness later I was at the start line in Hasselt unsure on how I would feel. A few of the girls in the house had been sick and I wasn’t feeling 100% so I was taking it as it came. After 80ks my chest felt slightly tight so I made a quick exit and got off at the feed.
After that came 4 days of the bike and 7 days with no serious training with a virus which was pretty hard to take as I was just on my way back after the tooth. A bit too much to soon maybe or maybe just too many germs floating round in the house. Who knows!!
Soon enough I was back on the bike and feeling healthy again, a few days of easy riding and I was ready to race again. I had the option a Pro crit in Keulen Germany to ride so thought I would give it a bash. Didn’t want to push it too hard though so just rode round in the bunch for 100ks and got a pretty good work out with a few of Germanys top renners dishing it out at the front.
At the start of the year I decided on having a mid season break away from the bike to freshen up a bit mentally and have a bit of a chill. Unfortunately it was planned for the end of May, just when I wanted to be riding my bike and getting stuck in. But I know in October when im still pinning my numbers on ill be happy I took these days off. So me and the wife set off too Paris for 3 days for a quick look around the city and a day at Euro Disney. As you can imagine we had a great time and all ran with out disaster. All until I got back and found my car had been towed! 3 hrs later at 1am and 200 euros down I got the thing back. I don’t think Ill Park on a zebra crossing in a town centre for 3 days again hey!!!
Anyway im getting a bit fed up of writing words like unfortunately over and over and telling you all how sick ive been so its time to get the ball rolling and get some form back!
Until then
Chow Chow
# posted by matt8195 @ Friday, June 15, 2007
