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	<title>VeloVeritas &#187; Flanders Pro Dan Patten&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<title>Up and Running</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2011/06/16/up-and-running-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it's been coming and I'm happy to say I have my first win of the 2011 season in Belgium! And oh, what a fine day it was.

Everything fell into place and to finish it off with the win was extra special. After a lot of bad luck before and in the earlier part of the season with injuries, crashes and what-not, it's a nice feeling now that things are going my way. Patience has paid off - not that I doubted it - but it is certainly nice to blog about some success rather than the 'what might have been'.

In ten days or so I had four races: the first three of which came within four days of each other.]]></description>
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		<title>Wouter Weylandt, Special Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2011/05/15/dan-patten-wouter-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I've been meaning to put together a blog post of my latest experiences of life here in Flanders. This season has certainly had its ups and downs, but all this seems rather irrelevant after the events of this week. Cycling indeed has its fair share of tragedies and the death of Wouter Weylandt in Stage 3 of the Giro this year is another one added to that list.

My first memory of Wouter Weylandt was when I watched a pro criterium in Sint Niklaas back in 2008 and since that night have always been a fan of one of the most popular Belgian riders around.]]></description>
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		<title>The Season is Underway!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2011/03/30/the-season-is-underway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the heartland and my season is officially underway. It's great to be back racing and despite a disrupted winter the body is feeling surprisingly sprightly. I have defied the norm these past few months.

From having much of the winter off the bike with an achilles injury, to starting the season (albeit a little later than originally planned) with testing figures that are higher than could have imagined six weeks previous.

My condition has returned remarkably quickly and it finally meant one thing: it was time to get myself back off to Belgium and get this 2011 season started.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back On It</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2011/02/18/danpattengettingbackonit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I thought it was about time I posted another blog update. 

I've been rather quiet of late and the reason being quite simply there's not been much to talk about. 

I've been plagued by misfortune after misfortune this winter which ironically gave me lots more time to update the blog, yet I was short of anything really interesting to say - until now that is...]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Season Report &#8211; So Far!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/12/23/off-season-report-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Christmas time, which means the first half of the off-season is coming to an end. 

Time has flown by since finishing up my season in Belgium mid-October. The body was certainly in need of recovery, after hitting the ground too many times in the second half of the season. 

Not least because on two occassions I was hit by cars, with the last time coming just a week before the end of the season...]]></description>
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		<title>End of Season Report!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/10/22/end-of-season-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the end of the season has arrived.

All in all it's been a good year - I've learned a lot, showed my strength (although sometimes a little too much) and certainly had some success along the way. My form and my strength increased throughout the entire first half of the season, where I took my first win in Belgium, as well as having a number of podium places.

Since then the luck hasn't gone my way...]]></description>
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		<title>The Run-In is Approaching&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/09/17/the-run-in-is-approaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well we've hit September and so the final month or so of the season. 

The good news is I'm still feeling motivated to race and race hard to finish off the year. The bad news is the last few weeks I've been caught out with a bit of illness that seems to be going round these parts at the moment, and which has proved hard to shake off. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Storm is Over (I Hope)</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/08/18/the-storm-is-over-i-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/08/18/the-storm-is-over-i-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the run of bad luck continued through July and into August, including a collision with a car and less than a week later getting taken down by a bidon during the third stage of the Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen.

The body has taken a bit of a pounding and I have less skin now than the start of the month, but no broken bones or injuries that will keep me off the bike, which is always a bonus in my mind. Midway through July I decided it was time to take a bit of a break anyway. A lot of racing up until that point and the body was calling for a rest.]]></description>
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		<title>All the bad luck at once!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/07/11/all-the-bad-luck-at-once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it's been a few weeks since my last blog post.

This is because I was waiting until something went my way again... I'm still waiting! The last few weeks of racing has been filled with bad luck, with mechanical problems at the wrong times and a few crashes to go with, not to mention a national championships that was reduced to a training ride.

I suppose I can count myself lucky until now with very few problems this season, however they all seem to have come at once.]]></description>
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		<title>A Close Call</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/06/14/a-close-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came close to another win at the weekend, this time in Grandglise.

I was second to an ex-pro called Jurgen Guns, who used to ride for Vlaanderen 2002 - Eddy Merckx around 1999/2000.

We were away in the break when Jurgen and another rider attacked, with still around 35km to go. I went across to them, and straightaway we dropped the other rider - so it was just me and Jurgen for the remainder of the race.]]></description>
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		<title>Up and Running, First Win!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/06/09/up-and-running-first-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghoy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well It's been on the cards all season and last weekend in the town of Ghoy I took my first win in Belgium. Like always the attacks came from km 1 and I managed to get away midway through the first lap - and this was to be the move that stuck.

At first we were four, then three, and then six, but knowing we were being chased down I tested the water by attacking coming out of one of the corners onto a drag with 30km to go. This was still a long way from the finish but I felt it was the right time to go, and so it proved...]]></description>
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		<title>Back in the Game!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/05/30/back-in-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 10:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So,  I'm recovering well - so well in fact that I came my closest to date to winning here in Belgium last Sunday, finally ending up in 3rd place, but so close to taking the win.

The race was in Sint Kornelis Horebeke, which is a town close to my base here in Oudenaarde,  and is the home town of one of the team's main sponsors, so it was an important one to do well in.

It was a good field but I was 'on it' from the start (really thought it was going to be my day!).]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back on Track</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/05/26/getting-back-on-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the season rolls on the races are coming thick and fast. May was always going to be an important month with the Belgium Cup (Beker Van Belgie/Coupe de Belgique) series taking center stage.

As reported in the last blog post I had been to see the doctor after feeling very low for a couple of weeks. Of course it was not going to turn around overnight but I was hoping that it wouldn't take long before I was feeling back to normal.

I continued to keep things easy in training and low and behold on the day of my first cup race of the season in Kampenhout the body didnt feel half bad...]]></description>
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		<title>Things don&#8217;t always go to plan!</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/05/07/things-dont-always-go-to-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/05/07/things-dont-always-go-to-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another example today of how things can seemingly go from being all rosey to disastrous in an instant.

The Great Britain Womens' National squad was today taken out by a car whilst out on a training ride between Oudenaarde and Brakel.

Thankfully everyone is alive, but it has left several broken bones amongst them and a number of other injuries...]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Essex</title>
		<link>http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2010/04/25/back-to-essex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Patten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in two months I'm back in the UK.

I'm back for this Sundays East Midlands Cicle Classic/Rutland Melton and with the form I've built over the last couple of months in Belgium I am going into the race with great optimism.

Having spent three years at Loughborough University (just down the road) and thrown myself into the break in what was my first attempt at doing the race in 2008, it's a race I am looking to go well for this time around.]]></description>
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