Impossible....no matter how cool I ever tried to play it, a pro can't go from the pages of Cycle Sport suffering at Flanders to "just another bloke in the bunch". My eyes were out on stalks.....I remember one training ride I went on over there in the backblocks of holland somewhere and I'd swung off the front to go to the back and slotted in nicely next to Mr Erik Bruekink.

I was like a 15 yo girl getting backstage at a Justin Timberlake concert...