2012-04-20/22 - Flanders shenaniganza

i do hope the London Classic yesterday has whet your appetites for cobbles and hills.. cos there are a few which need taming during our weekend.. in no particular order i give you the stats,

(snip)

those with* i'd strongly recommend.. if you want to do them all, then we should forego Ypres and Kortrijk on Saturday. and Sunday for those bergs situated closest to Brakel..

A xx

I have to be honest - reading all of the stuff like this is really, really putting me off going on this trip. I don't mind a hill or two but I'd rather have as flat a journey as possible, I've not started doing any proper riding since the winter started, and I'm not particularly keen on my first longer outing this year being a total hammerfest / testosterone oneupmanship over doing the steepest, most dangerous cobbled hill.

Admittedly I haven't participated in group emails etc as much as I'd have wanted to (very difficult to wade through 20+ group mail thread after a day of work) but I was under the impression this was a more relaxed, fun group spin... not training for people's trips to the alps later in the summer!