Frankly, I think all us CX’ers are a little prone to gross exaggeration – “that was the hardest track ever”, “that run up was, like, half a lap”, “I’ve never seen so much mud in my life”, “that guy crashed out the entire field on the start” – but believe me when I say that World’s was the most mechanical destruction I’ve ever seen in a race. With only a crash and only a single flat Vittoria tubular, I feel like I came away fairly unscathed compared to the horror stories of equipment carnage I’ve heard from so many other athletes. Continue reading “MVDH in Belgium Weeks 4 and 5: The World Championships and Post-Worlds Races”

If Hoogerheide is without its signature apocalyptically muddy conditions, is it still Hoogerheide? I suppose so, but it’s certainly not … Continue reading MvdH in Belgium Week 3: We Came for a Cross Race and a Criterium Broke out