Bike-in-a-box
F19 Ready to go!
Pens of bikes ready at registration
Volunteers always ready to herd the masses @start/finish
Terrified selfie with my fellow 7am starters
Blurry shot of the beautiful roads we started off in. Forests! <3
Countryside begins! Swedish/English rider ahead I will see all the way to the finish
Selfie with Wei from San Diego. He had a good start to a rough ride
Beautiful small country roads
Fast paceline with pannier-ridden Germans
We do not "Paris-Roubaix" the train crossing
First old and pretty church
Enter beautiful old towns...
St. Ivo school busy with fast folk
Wei, Laurence from Sheffield and I continue on