A little more Ronde van Vlaanderen

On this, the eve of the Hell of the North (officially known as Paris-Roubaix), I'll share a little more of last Sunday's Ronde van Vlaanderen.

First, a few photos from a spectator who found me through twitter to share these photos.

Adrien Petit.

Jan Barta.

Hugo Houle.

Antoine Duchesne.

Marcus Burghardt.

And if you'd like to see some video, you can find me in not one but two from Orica GreenEdge! You may recall that Svein Tuft was wearing a camera on his helmet–he must have drawn the short straw–so pay attention around minute 4 of this video showing the team preparing for and racing in de Ronde. The second video can be found here and shows race morning preparations and the sign on from Svein's helmet cam. It's something different and well worth a watch (aside from the fact that I pop up around 6:30 into the video). Notice how long a ride it is over cobbles just to get to the sign on and how massive the crowds are!

Thanks again to Surcouf for the photos and points to Mark from Ireland and David from New Jersey, 2 fellow fans I met at the Tour de France and the World Championships respectively, who got in touch to make sure I knew about the Orica videos (bonus points to Mark who emailed me within 20 minutes of the first video's release after not seeing me since last July!). Yes, this sport certainly brings people together, just one of the countless things I love about it.