Culture

Spring is in the air, April is now the month and all cycling fans seem to be watching what is going on in Belgium and northern France right now. If you do not know, this is quite the important week with some major racing going on especially Tour of Flanders last weekend and the big daddy, Paris Roubaix this weekend. Its been pretty insightful to watch folks set up parties to watch these big races just like we do back home for Super Bowl sunday. In the newspapers, riders are covered in depth and if they have had a cough in the past 2 weeks even that gets reported. This is how ingrained the racing culture here actually is. A great example is that earlier this week my next door neighbor stopped and talked to me as I was getting home from a ride and wanted to tell me all about the racing that he has watched over the years. He is not a racer, does not even ride a bike, yet he is probably 60 years old and has followed it since he was a little boy. He was talking about so many riders that I had never even heard of and this really did make me think about how much history there really is in this wonderful sport.

I have gotten word that I am going to be racing this next sunday and monday but get to have saturday off from racing.

stay tuned for a special pre roubaix post and thanks for reading.