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¡Buenos días desde Amsterdam!

How’s it going? I’m doing well and amped on lots of recent opportunities to ride!

Already since Saturday, I’ve been back from Friedrichshafen and another successful Eurobike. I was traveling with Guy & Rei + our friend Sjors from pr.co. Already tomorrow morning I’m heading back out with Sjors , Lian from Shift & my homie Josh (who’s also doing Trans Pyrenees next month) to the Bohemian Border Bash in the Czech Republic.

Later this month is Road Worlds in Yorkshire to which I’ll be riding with former PROs Bram Tankink, Leontiel van Morsel along with a great group of cyclists organized by the Dutch Lottery and Dutch Cycling Federation (KNWU) as a part of our project supporting the lottery’s sponsorship of the KNWU.

This also means I’ll miss another LtD Gravel Raid but both Stan from Snobici and Rei will join in my stead. Beyond all that, track & cross seasons are closing in quick! I’ve always loved to raced but, like Laurens’ talks about below, I never had that many wins.

On that note, whereas cycling may seem to come easy for me and I’ve been doing it for ages: I don’t have a trophy chest. Similarly, I’ve been trying to up my guitar & singing game over the past few years, ever so slowly and though, I by no means really suck at cycling or singing, this article about how to shed perfectionism and the desire to be great at everything by ‘sucking at something’ did catch my eye.