He told me a long tale of how he and a few of the old pros had been getting increasingly despondent about the state of the modern peloton. "Ze young boys do not know how to race, Sean." he said.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, my presence has been requested in South East Germany for a training camp in late June followed by a stage race around France in July. The focus of the training camp will be on "not eating all ze cakes from ze pattisserie" and "101 ways to crash a Porsche". The Kaiser's other specialist subject of "recreational substance use" has been omitted from the curriculum.
So it is with regret that I have to announce my absence from the weekly rides for most of July and August. I will endeavour to update this medium with tales from another continent.
Sean.
