Recovery... + JP head south.

After 2 pretty hard days of riding, today was a nice little recovery day. So JP and I spent the morning drinking coffee and watching TV. After that we went out for a nice little spin down by the Tarn river and around the lake at Ambialet, where John tried to improve his bike handling skills at a BMX park.





He still needs improvement!!!!






The good thing about recovery days is that you get to come home and sit on your butt with a big plate of steeming hot food. We threw together some rice and Omlets and headed back to the TV for some more relaxing. It's a hard life...

John packed his stuff up and we headed into Gaillac for a while to take care of a few tings, then met up with Christophe Cousinie who picked JP up to drive him down to the Border town of Amelie les Bains where the team training camp is. Again I'm not going because of school... Arghhhh!

As John drove off to spend 3 hours sitting in a car with someone he wasn't going to be able to say one word do seeing as he speaks no french, and Christophe (Couscous) speaks no english, I think John was actually pretty nervous. He's got a pretty heavy week ahead of him. Not only will he meet his teammates and have to try and fight the language barrier, but he will also be piling on the miles in the Pyrenees on the training camp, as well as doing his first races for his new team. Monday he races in Spain, Wednesday he races in Spain again, then he might race in the Basque country next weekend, not sure yet, they'll see how he does in Spain and go from there.

JP heads off to Spain with teammate Couscous.