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ZELE PRO RACE WIN

Hi Everybody,
Well the last month has been a nice way to finish off the season in Belgium and getting back to NZ.

So here's a quick update of how it went, leaving off from the last update finished the season off mainly riding pro kermises which the first one was in Zwevegem and was held on a hard circuit and the wind was a big factor out of the 90 or so starters there was only 16 finishers me been amongst them finishing in 10th place.
I don't really want to mention about the next race as a person sprinted really unfarely and did not get disqaulified so I took my 11th 2nd place of the year.
So then there was 4 pro races and all of them rode strong but didn't eventuate in the end usually all been mass bunch sprints.
Now here is where the story gets good, Basically started the 2nd to last pro kermis of the season, Which is the East Flanders Closing race, which was a race held on a feely large circuit with quite alot of corners and a few big open roads and of course my friend the wind. The race started off very fast and after 2laps, 2 riders went clear and the built up a lead of 1min but was inevitable that they were brought back with 5 lap to go as the wind was to wearing then with 4laps to go a big split in the group happened and 34 riders went ahead and I was in it, so I jumped off the front and did a huge effort to get across and made it across with 5 others with 3 laps to go
then going into the last laps there was a few attacks and 1 rider was clear and had a lead of 15sec then with 4k to go he had a lead of 9sec and I could see that the bunch was going to be setting up for a 2nd place sprint so I attacked as hard as I could so no one could come with me and went in Pursuit bridging the gap just after the last corner with 800m and just started a flat out sprint flying straight past him to take the biggest win of my career wining my first Pro Kermis which was over the moon about.
Now as I it was my last week in Belgium had to do the packing and sorting out what needed to come back to NZ as have been away a little while in amongst the 3 last race which also went well in the last Pro Kermis finished 15th in the lead group and then took another kermis win in Deerlijk taking me to 7 wins for the season and then racing in the last kermis of the season finishing a creditable 12th place and staying out of trouble which was my main goal as was to be flying the next day.
So now have been back in NZ enjoying the awesome countryside doing some nice little rides to prepare for tour of southland with Share the Road team, which I am really looking forward to catching up with the other NZ riders and enjoying myself.

Cheers for reading

God Bless

Chris