Well, I was so excited about the 6 Day of Grenoble win that I forgot to mention 2 very important races I did recently. Here in France the end of the road race season means the start of the cross and “Contre le montre”  - time trial - season. And one of the biggest races in the region takes place in our nearest town and is named after the local Tour hero Patrice Halgand. This year Patrice and 2 current Tour riders took part, and 200 other racers. The main route is 15.8km which is a fraction under 10m with a couple of tricky turns and 1km 4% hill. Dad did 21:20 but the winner was 18:52. The youth route was slightly shorter at 8km and pretty flat. I did 10:22 and won it.

Then 2 weeks later dad and I entered the father/son race at Scientrier. At 15.3 km and very flat we were hoping for a fast time, and we trained hard too, but we didn’t expect a time of 19.51, and we won too (we were only 1 minute exactly behind Jerome Coppel and Florian Moine). There was a big supper afterwards which loads of riders and families attended, and all the committee members too, so that was great to get a trophy in front of all those people; except dad couldn’t stay as he had to go to work that evening.

I also won the Criterium de Montreux.