Of the mensen met teveel vrije tijd. Riding your bicycle for 24 hours to see if you can visit messengercompanies across Holland doesn’t sound normal, does it? We’ve had couriers, fakengers but I tend to call these people insanengers. If you really have an urge or itch or whatever to see how the riders are doing, where they are now, what time the visited checkpoint Le Haute or you just wanna know when they finished. Then check the following url where Tjeerd from Fuccit produced some crazy-up-to-date-stuff.

Eigentlich beim Nachbarn und wo sind die Ergebnisse? How did Atsuko do? Or Henrik? Or Carsten for that matter? The organisation wants to thank you all for coming to Berlin, it was a pleasure to have you there as their guests. Nah, sehr beliebte Kollegen, das Resultat war: es hat uns auch gut gefallen. Auf wiederschnitsel!

Wie es war fragt euch? Haute Equipe did some goede zaken in The Hague. Meneer Eddie won the alleycat and Tjeerd won the fixie competition (16 circles backward, footdown and some really funky tricks ‘n skids). Picas are to be found at Michael’s and at Wouter’s. So even if we won’t win the war, at least we won the first battle. Final results and standings in het kattebak klassement are on the Dutchmessenger’s.

Okeeeeeej, forget about singelrace, piraten-alleycat or uphill. Yesterday we came up with something revolutionary new for the Dutch. We had a small party with some friends (47 registrants), a couple of beers (+ 140 cans of 0,5 ltr), 3 six-packs of chocolade melk and a checkpoint with painted fingernails. And.. ohja… we had a triple race evening/night, starting with a micro-alleycat that the winner rounded in 7 minutes and the the worst loser took 16 minutes to complete. We continued with a tag team alleycat in which you and your partner had to solve 6 questions and get a sample of proof at Simone’s place (thanx girl). After midnight the best 10 competitors were through to the finale (13 rounds of hardcore bicycleracing around the lauwersgracht) and Jeroen Blom prooved to be the most cunning cat of  ’m all. Finishing as numero 44 in the first race but still winning it overal in the last. Congratulations! What happened further? People showed up from Eindhoven, Zwolle, Guatemala, South Africa, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Finland, Poland, Iraq, Heerlen, Maastricht, Kenya, Groningen, Germany, Enschede, America, Amsterdam and Arnhem, I think. So AA-T was right by saying you might call this the ODAC (BTW, big shout out to the FUCCIT guys for chipping in on both fun and beers, you rock, nuttin fake or pose about that). Only two minor details: Leander’s crash and he didn’t ask for a bandaid (rules rule but hope your alright) and the fact that Tijmon would have been in the final if he didn’t bring his buddy to the hospital. Some people controlled the music, some refilled the fridge, some were on the checkpoints (Joop en Tom, bedankt he) and one hero/exenger/nowadays fakenger was the most coolest by drinking coffee, juice and chocolatmilk. Surely my girlfriend is always the best! All of y’all made the 13 years worthy, I can only be humble from here on. Gracias, Thanks, Danke, Bedankt, Kiitos, Dzieki.

And some results:

1. Jeroen Blom
2. James Dawson
3. Willem Jan Rijper
4. Prins Bram IV Hendriks
5. Bram Schilham van OOsten
6. Thomas 1.98 Bouyeure
7. Stoffel
8. Bram Utje de Beurs
9. Joelle (first lady(as usual))
10. Thomas Velocity
11. Alexandra Beijers
12. Thijs van Mullekom
13. Pieter Aart
14. Bas Verhappen
15. Evelyn Rodriguez
16. Tijmon Kater
17. Gijs de Rijk
18. Special Ed Scherphof
19. Jos Votske van Dijk
20. Mitch Kleineel
21. Ab Irakees
22. Michael Verkooijen
23. Jur J74 Arntzen
24. Michel  Smits
25. Kris Goofy Wierzbicky
26. Matthijs Koks
27. Siep Miedema
28. Arthur Bank
29. Lindsay
30. Matthijs Matti Verhulst
31. Vis de Buschauffer
32. Erik Bep Baxter
33. Almar Bijlsma
34. Kees Vernooij
35. Wouter Groendijk
36. Leander
37. Job van de Plas
38. Niek Faber
39. Wouter Wessels
40. Michael pouwels
41. Charlie Dronkers
42. Aden Jonathan Zijp
43. Tomas Gons
44. Elliot
45. Joaquim Rodriguez 
46. Tom Appeldoorn
47. Hattara