Cyclocross season 2024/2025
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Exactly!! Imagine trying to host non Belgian World Cups in the Kerstperiode.......It would never happen as it would put Belgian race organisers face out of joint - and out of pocket.
And they've made the World Cup a 2 month series just so certain 'road stars' will be tempted to do it.......
Unfortunately for them, these riders seem to be treating the sport as it's original purpose - training for the road season.
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After a stuttering start, it's one of the best double headers this weekend
Herentals on Saturday followed by a World Cup on Namur on Sunday
Getting close to the Christmas Cyclo-cross races. It's the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Flanders Week, and the days before the TDF)
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Puck Pieterse is making her season debut at Namur I think
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Is MvdP riding this season or maybe just 3-4 races including the WC?
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Quite a lot in the end. Wasn't there talk that CX is not good for the preparation for the classics?
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It didn't seem to do him any harm last season.
I get that it may disrupt his road preparations slightly, but I think he wants to equal Eric De Vlaeminck's record of 7 World Championship wins, so he's focused on that for now.
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I wonder if he also calculated that he could potentially win the world cup - he's riding six of them, there should have been 11 but one was cancelled.... Only missing Benidorm - presumably he's got a training camp there, I see a 20 day gap between races.
Also, this has been out for a while but nobody posted it above - just four clashes with MvdP at Mol, Dendermonde, Loenhout and Maasmechelen
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Would assume World Cup race organisers have dug into their pockets - hence the large number of World Cups on his calendar.
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Yeah I know. Maybe the talk in that direction was also just, that he'd prefer to just stay in Spain than to fly over so often. I'd guess the CX races can be used as training intensity or interval days within the training plan. He tends to not have to go max for the entire 60 min, at least when WVA isn't there.
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Two good races at Namur. Brand was storming through at the end and the men’s race was one of the best races I’ve seen. They’re far more competitive when MVDP isn’t racing.
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Brand getting 2nd place by showing us how to ride that downhill off camber
Toony getting 2nd place by showing us how not to ride it.
Great weekend of racing.
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The Namur off-camber was a lot of fun, for spectators. I like the course, some savage climbs and descents, feels very natural compared to some of the more contrived courses.
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Yep, agreed. I felt very like the sort of courses I used to ride. The worst part is the bridge but I assume it is for a reason. The previous day went around an athletics track, I'd be seriously pissed off if I was a member of the athletics club.
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I've just caught up with the Namur races, both very exciting. The men's racing is much better without the big guns just riding off the front. For me the women's race was the better of the two with plenty of changes of lead before the skills of Ceylin Alvarado allowed her to build a decent lead until she started to tire on the last lap while Lucinda Brand hit her stride and closed the gap to keep you on the edge of your seat. Good to see Zoe Backstedt managing to hold her own in the early laps too.
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No Fem van Empel this weekend, knee injury
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