Ten Days. Countless KMS. NUMEROUS PIZZA.

Just got home from ten (maybe more, totally lost count) days with Ceratizit WNT Pro Cycling. We headed over for the Giro Rosa, my favourite race.

This team is special. It never feels like staff but feels more like a family. When the first question everyone asks is “how are the kids, life at home ok?” you know you are onto a winner. They make time to reset. Even if that reset is a quick coffee. In those caffeine fuelled two or three minutes it is not work talk, or content or racing…it is a time to be you in the midst of racing madness.

It is the same with the riders. When they can hardly stand on the finish line and then turn to you and ask “How was your day, get some good stuff?”. It really makes you appreciate these are people. These are lives adapting, growing and more importantly supporting.

With the constant update of doom and gloom in the UK and our government asking us to tell on our neighbours if they break the rules it is some what mind-blowing that the support and the closest I have felt to a community since April comes from a camper van parked in some mountain top Italian town with multiple nationalities…we are in this together. Crossing borders and building relationships while clashing cultures is nothing but amazing, this is how we grow as people. We should not be in a bid to make sure our own country is greater than the next - isolating yourself from the majority is nothing but damaging…look at lockdown!

Any hoo…rant over…

Here are a few images from the trip. There are way too many to pick from but here is a start…