Renningelst Recon

Today Brandon McKeever, Scott Jackson, and I rode 40 kilometers to Renningelst with our director Christ to recon our course for Saturday's race. There is a 20k loop that we do twice and then we do 12 x 8k laps. The 20 k laps have one long 1.5 k hill and one short hill of about 400-500 meters. The 8k loop has a hill of about 500 meters also. All the hills aren't very steep. There are also some narrow roads that might make a selection on Saturday. It was a pretty sweet ride of a little over 3 hours and about 105k long. The weather was like weather I dream for back home, about 60 degrees and raining. The ride was also pretty epic because we got four flats. I got three front flats, and Scott got a rear flat. By the time I got a third flat we realized there was glass in my tire. One other thing that was pretty cool about our ride today was that we rode near the Kemmelburg climb used in Ghent- Wevelgem. However, we didn't get to ride it because it was raining, and the descent is pretty treacherous even in dry conditions. Hopefully this training will pay off on Saturday.