We had to wait for a whole year. Too long, way too long in my smartass opinion. I was getting thirsty already. Malle Tjeerd and I haven’t been drinking since cause we wanted to be prepared. We could never drink as much as them so this year we’re going for Gold in the kattebakalleycat. The bierweek in Zwolle, it’s simply just something special. Make sure you’re there to witness it all till your vision gets blurred.

In the end it was less than 24 hours. I got up at 08:30 in the morning to get 40 kilograms of shoppings and to bring Sam to grandpa. Chef de cuisine Kim and I did some food preps and I redecorated the interior at HC HQ. At around 19:00 we got news that most of the riders took a wrong turn somewhere and that our checkpoint would have to be open from 23:00 – 03:00 (instead of  21:00 – 01:00). My first thought was; this is going to be a 26 hours race. But everything turned out to be really cool, Haute Courier Head Quarters was packed with friendy people, mainly the guys from Fuccit (BTW nice going on that website). Winner was Bram de Vos from Cycloon, mad props bro! I went to bed at 05:17 and didn’t finish the full 24.

For travellers heading north. Zwolle will be mayhem tomorrow afternoon when their alleycat starts. A shitload of messengers, fakengers and exengers thirsty for beer. Deluxe hits the streets at 17:00. (warnung: nicht beim Cycloon headoffice, nein, ja)

Malle Tjeerd and I are going to Zwolle, for sure. I know some peeps from Eindhoven are coming too. That should do it for the party. But now they only need some racers for the alleycat, thus get on yer bikes and move like a cyclone…