A rest and recovery day and boy do my legs need to recover, three hard races in 5 days is pushing it a bit for me. I kept getting cramps in my legs last night so that kept me awake!
Since I had no specific plans for the day I took my time going for breakfast, I might get up a bit earlier tomorrow, the breakfast buffet looked like a plague of locusts had swept through! It wasn't locusts but a group of cyclo tourists on an organised tour of the area, apparently its hugely popular with mostly older Germans, and they take a long leisurely day to ride about 50km around the many marked scenic bike trails.
Jurgen told me that one of these riders had consumed 4 litres of beer and 3 Leffe's the previous evening after dinner, Leffe is a premium Belgian beer at 7%, pretty strong stuff! So you can see that they aren't a particularly athletic group.
I decided my legs were so sore this morning that I would go for a one hour very easy ride to spin out some of the rubbish from my legs. I was going to take a complete day off but I think my body copes better with recovery rides rather than days off.
When I was riding today I got quite cross with myself about the finish yesterday, the more I think about it, that was a definite win opportunity and they don't come along that often. Morale of that story is that you are never as tired as you think you are when it comes to a sprint!
A bike clean (yet again) this afternoon, an early dinner and early to bed for me tonight.
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