It turns out I’m getting three days off between Loenhout and the last two races of my season.  So yesterday’s ride was mostly focused around this:

For dinner Els made us a traditional Belgian meal of steak and frites.

Today’s ride though was a bit more serious though.  I took a trip South of the border!  Not to Mexico you silly vacationing people (parents), but to France.  Here is the place where I would provide you with a cheesy picture of us crossing the border…  But there wasn’t really a border to photograph.  We actually had no idea when we had crossed into France.  The beauty of the European Union and/or peace?  Originally we set out just to cross the border and then loop back to Izegem, but before we knew it we spotted a sign pointing us in the direction of Roubaix.  The search was on the for the famous velodrome in which Paris-Roubaix finishes.  Finding the city of Roubaix was the easy part, once we got there though finding the actual velodrome proved a bit more difficult.  We stopped three or four times within the city and simply asked “Velodrome?” and we were able to find it after a few minutes thanks to the help of some nice French people.

Here is the Rad Jake with some big rock outside of some bike racing track.

Unfortunately the track was closed so we just took a few pictures from the outside.

Here I am outside of the velodrome with my friend David “The Champ” Kessler.  All in all it was a great three our ride with beautiful weather and in good company.  There was only one cloud in the sky.  It’s just that it was just one really really big cloud…