The best of 2011

Posted by on Dec 31, 2011 in Cyclocross | 5 Comments

It’s funny how we humans need these arbitrary milestones like New Years Eve, for example. Normally, I’m all into reflecting to the whole year behind us and looking forward to the next one, but right now I don’t have that feeling at all. The reason for that must be that I’m right in the middle ...

Bart Wellens Special

Posted by on Dec 30, 2011 in Cyclocross | 2 Comments

When I started to think about this year’s book, I wanted to make it a bit more interesting – having 28 races in it, one after another, there has to be something that breaks it up a bit, something, that’s different. And I thought that that special thing could be a behind-the-scenes feature on riders, ...

World Cup #6 – Heusden-Zolder

Posted by on Dec 26, 2011 in Cyclocross | 2 Comments

The Heusden-Zolder course is hard, very hard from the photographers’ point of view. It’s very streched out and it takes ages to get from one end to the other. I remembered the layout from two years ago and found it difficult again to be everywhere where I wanted to be.

Superprestige #6 – Diegem

Posted by on Dec 24, 2011 in Cyclocross | 2 Comments

It’s been a very long day, great race, struggling with the cameras in the dark, I’m off to sleep now, my train leaves back to London early in the morning. I’ll be back to Belgium for all four races during the festive week, more to come soon – and Happy Christmas to every reader. Thanks ...

World Cup #5 – Namur

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Cyclocross | No Comments

It’s been an interesting day on Sunday at Namur. First of all, I have never left a race before it finished but on Sunday I had to in order to catch my Eurotunnel train back Folkestone. It was a weird feeling but I did get there on time, even though the Eurotunnel check-in system went ...

GVA #4 – GP Rouwmoer

Posted by on Dec 17, 2011 in Cyclocross | 2 Comments

What a day! Great racing, great weather, great course and mud, finally! It’s all summed up in this couple of words but there is more to it, of course.

2011 Druivencross

Posted by on Dec 11, 2011 in Cyclocross | No Comments

De moeder van alle crossen – the mother of all cyclo-cross [races]. The Druivencross is probably the most famous race in the calendar and while it isn’t part of any of the big three series, it’s still an important part of most rider’s calendar. While the sky was gloomy in the morning, the sun later ...

Wold Cup #4 – Igorre

Posted by on Dec 4, 2011 in Cyclocross | No Comments

It’s always sunny Spain, right? Well, two years ago it wasn’t and I was dreading to come to Igorre as I’ve been a bit ill for the last couple of days. However, it was dry and sunny – as it should be at this part of the world and I was very grateful for that. ...

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