De Ronde Cyclo
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Three of our Flandria Cafe guys are currently in Brugge getting ready for tomorrow's Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Wielertoeristen. Maarten, Tom and Kurt are signed up for the full enchilada - the full distance version - a whopping 259km. No doubt they're harder men than I. Back in 2005, Dr. Brad, Marc and I decided that for working stiffs, 140k with a heavy dose of Flemish Ardennes bergs was plenty. Each of those guys works a full week, squeezes in rides around family obligations, and still manages to eat up the km. This year, doing it all in a tough winter in these parts. With cyclingrevaled.com's Barry 'the bullet' Boyce. Their weekends in prep have been going to early season group Sunday rides, only meeting 2-3 hours before and doing the same ride in advance before doing it again with a group trying to tear their legs off. As i write this, it's 1pm in Flanders and they're likely in the Flemish ardennes battling away. I did it in 2005,