MVDH in Belgium Weeks 4 and 5: The World Championships and Post-Worlds Races

 

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”

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MvdH in Belgium Week 2: The other Belgian Cyclocross Scene

Rapecross in Lokeren. It was up there with the hardest courses I’ve raced: filthy muddy, filled with tricky technical bits, and had a field of pretty top notch competitors to boot. And it wasn’t even a UCI race. Technically it’s classified as a Belgian ‘B’ race which basically means it’s the highest level of amateur racing in the country. Not to diminish all the great UCI racing we have in North America, but in Belgian the amateur racing is on par with anything that we’d see in all but the best produced C1 races on our side of the ocean. Continue reading “MvdH in Belgium Week 2: The other Belgian Cyclocross Scene”

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