Tour Deux Sevres & Tour De Cruese

Hi every body finally got back to a computer,
Tour Deux Sevres was the last race with the NZ track squad so everyone was in fine form being the lastr race.
To start the journey we had a 7hour drive down from Teilt-winge to where the race was north of Bordeux, so after sitting in the car for most of the day we had a team presentation followed by settling into the race accomodation at a school.
1st Stage for me ended up being a disaster losing 25min as when i zent back to get some fluid for everyone a team decided to put it in the guter which had me left out in the convoy which I ended up getting dropped from. How ever Hayden Roulston had a good race winning the stage and taking Yellow and the rest of the team finished in the main bunch.
2nd Stage was more bad luck once again went back to the car to get some bottles and ended up braking a spoke in my front wheel, Which i had to do another wheel change and ended up wasting heaps of energy chasing back on then ended up getting dropped with Wes and Jessie and ending up missing time cut by 54sec so that was a bummer. To say the least we did some solid riding on the front for Rolly to try hold the break from going out to much.
I was out of the tour so had a rest day, while Sam and Marc Ryan did as much suffering as possible to keep Rolly in good nick for the finish then the last day of the tour I went for 100k easy ride in the morning on the afternoons stage. The TT in the morning was 16k and Hayden extended his lead winning it by 20secs which was good then the afternoons stage for them was all about controlling the race not letting anything get to far away, which they did a superb job all finishing in the bunch with Hayden winning the Tour. Then we had some more driving we first had to drive to Bordeux to drop off all the track squad and gear before making the 4 1/2 hour drive down to Limoux to say the least it wasnt a very early night.

Now in Limoux went for a 2hour easy ride with a few sprints.
The next day was a 6hour drive up north to Tour De Cruese which had a 25k teams time trial that night which we rode on standard rode bikes and ended up doing a resonble time considering finshing 15th team then the next day was a 156k stage that was quite hilly i ended up finishing in the second bunch around 40th with Matt Sillars, Mike Torkler end up finishing in the main bunch ahead of us. This was then followed by a long drive back to Limoux.