A Day at the Races

Today we all piled in the van and went to the Superprestige at Hamme-Zogge. Jon's knee was sore from a fall yesterday, but he did pretty well. He avoided being lapped by Sven Nys who was breathing down his neck on the last lap. But his time should have been at least a minute better as the officials had taken down the barriers and let a huge crowd on to the course that he had to fight his way through to get to the finish line. Jon said that is just the way. That they do not care much about those who come in after the leaders. We watched the race from a school playground. So the kids had various pieces of equipment to play on in between watching daddy race by. Axel enjoyed waffles at the race.We did not spend much time in the beer tent where this picture was taken. The tables and chairs were nice, but it was not a good place to watch the race and the oompa music was excruciatingly loud. They have big screen TV's scattered around the venue, so that not all the fans are clustered at the edges of the course. The only trouble is they usually only show the leaders on the TV's. It was best to stand at the edge and yell for Jon. He said he heard us and appreciated it.