Today is January 16th, it has been exactly 16 days since our upcoming plans had been turned upside down and spun around. This blog entry serves the purpose to explain the little tease which we left you with last time.
The story starts on New Years day as Gregg was wishing all of his friends a Happy New Year over MSN after a fun night of Wedding festivities at the Wedding of Doug Berry and Brandi Bara in Houston Texas. After wishing a friend in Belgium a Happy New Year they began discussing Gregg's racing situation for the year. At the time the outlook was non-existant as he spent months talking with American team directors, who all seemed to downplay his level of previous racing experience. This friend is working as an assistant for a Continental cycling team based out of Belgium, and told Gregg to email the team director of that team as they were still looking for a few more riders.
So to make a long story short, Gregg emailed the team director, negotiated a contract, and will now be racing as a member of the Klaipeda Splendid Cycling Team. He will be flying into Belgium on the 12th of February, and starts his first pro race of the year in the beginning of March.
The Official announcement was made on their website yesturday (January 15/07) http://www.wielersportteam.be/continentaalcyclingteam.html and for the majority who can not read dutch there is a brief mention on the website http://www.cycling4all.com/
saying
" Bart De Spiegelaere (Bel) has sigend a pro-contract with the team of manager Tuerlinckx. The team has also
and agreement with Gregg Germer (Usa) = ex-pro from the Flanders Team. "
We will keep you posted on further information as it becomes available, hope everyone has been having a great 2007 so far.
Take Care
Holly & Gregg
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007
The start of something new...
The New Year makes way for the start of many new things, for many resolutions to lose weight, get in shape, or to try something new. For us it is the start of our new blog. It is a good way to update everyone on what is going on with us.
First off we would like to say how much we appreciated everyones support through the last extremely busy year. The beginning of 2006 had its rough moments for each of us, and at times was extremely difficult to deal with everything. While the 2nd half of the year brought so much fun (aside from the many hours of wedding planning) and enjoyment. We were so fortunate to see so many of you out to celebrate our wedding in Ancaster, and down in Texas. We also had a great time on our Honeymoon in Belgium and France. Finally wrapping up the year with a trip down to Texas once more to celebrate Christmas with Gregg's family, and New Years at the wedding of Gregg's friend Doug Berry.
Just when we were looking forward to many months of tranquility, 2007 was off to a fast paced start when Gregg said Happy New Year to a friend in Belgium. This was the starting line for something good, but something that has changed our time from being calm to extremely busy! Further blogs to follow to explain our latest whirlwind will follow in the near future.
For now we will leave it at that, simply stating that things have been busy (for the better) and will leave you with a few photos from the year gone by.
First off we would like to say how much we appreciated everyones support through the last extremely busy year. The beginning of 2006 had its rough moments for each of us, and at times was extremely difficult to deal with everything. While the 2nd half of the year brought so much fun (aside from the many hours of wedding planning) and enjoyment. We were so fortunate to see so many of you out to celebrate our wedding in Ancaster, and down in Texas. We also had a great time on our Honeymoon in Belgium and France. Finally wrapping up the year with a trip down to Texas once more to celebrate Christmas with Gregg's family, and New Years at the wedding of Gregg's friend Doug Berry.
Just when we were looking forward to many months of tranquility, 2007 was off to a fast paced start when Gregg said Happy New Year to a friend in Belgium. This was the starting line for something good, but something that has changed our time from being calm to extremely busy! Further blogs to follow to explain our latest whirlwind will follow in the near future.
For now we will leave it at that, simply stating that things have been busy (for the better) and will leave you with a few photos from the year gone by.
An engagement photo taken of us in May 2006. At Southam park overlooking the escarpment in Hamilton.
Another engagement photo of us.
Gregg racing in Kitchener
We enjoyed some time up North at my uncles cottage/home the weekend before our wedding.
Gregg on the podium in his last road race of the year taking 2nd position.
Gregg and best friend Tyler at the falls after picking him up from the airport.
The girls took Holly out for some martini's the night before the wedding.
Our rehersal dinner at Sortiris Greek restaurant was fabulous!
We had the nicest day that any of us could have imagined for our Wedding.
Photo credit to Mike Feswick
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