Post Race

After the race, lisa and I helped JF Blais from Canada during his race. Lisa was in the pit with his wife, Marie, and I walked around the course, giving JF updates on his position. He did amazing starting in 110th position, and finished 11th. Our friend Stefan was in this race also and he finished 6th! In the evening we visited our Airbnb host and were treated to some cherry pie and a beer. We made a nice dinner, and walked down to the Elbe for one night cap before bed. I guess I forgot right when we got back to the Airbnb we worked on packing everything to head to Amsterdam tomorrow. One more interesting thing that happened was as we were leaving the race, a propane tank exploded and caught one of the tents on fire. It was quite chaotic with the UCI official blowing there with him and about five giant fire trucks followed by multiple police cars coming into the race venue. They had to stop the race that was going on and gave current position in the race.Read more