Belgium, January 5, 2008
Camp's out for another year
By Tristan Schouten
Tristan Schouten living the dream in the sand at Hofstade. Photo ©: Cycling-pics.be
Euro Cross Camp V is in the books. The bike room is empty, the mechanics are gone, the wash station is finally drying out and other than a few of us that are staying the final few weeks until the world championships, the house feels quite empty. Some 16 riders with twice as many bikes and a race schedule to rival a two week stage race, I'm sure most will sleep the entire flight home with no problems at all, while I'll be laying here...
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Belgium, January 4, 2008
Lessons in Diegem
By Jeremy Ferguson
Jeremy Ferguson, Team Spine, Rocklin CA, racing Belgium for the first time at ECXC V. Photo ©: Cycling-pics.be
The eight o'clock wake up call came on time as usual from Geoff today, as has become the tradition to wake us up with his early morning anecdotes and note for the day, some being more serious then others, but all seem to just pass over me in a haze as I barely come out of my sleep. Today being a race day the schedule was all business and called for a ten o'clock departure time for our junior race at one thirty....
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In many ways, the end of camp seems like an intermission as many of us return to Izegem just a few weeks from now for the big dessert (pre-worlds camp and worlds). But for the fifth year, the camp is indeed in the books and most of the guys are home now readjusting and back at school today.
Nick Weighall fighting his way on the run up at Zeddam. Photo ©: Cycling-pics.be
St Niklaas is always a good end-of-camp race because it's a bit mellower for not being part of any series. Case in point: I spent some time with Sven at his camper while my juniors were out on their pre-ride and I asked...
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Belgium, January 2, 2008
The Mall and Baal
By Zach McDonald
Zach McDonald, Oh Boy Oberto/Redline, racing in Belgium with Clayton Omer, Papa Johns, chasing. Photo ©: Cycling-Pics.be
Monday, Mitch, Nick, and I decided to go to the mall in Kortrijk for a change. We left the house with no real plan on how to get there other than to take the train and then walk from the Kortrijk station. We hopped on the cruisers and headed down to the Izegem train station and when we got there we went inside and were looking around for a schedule but couldn't really figure out the times. Luckily, a little...
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Trebon, Kona-YourKey.com, withstands the crazy weather in Portland to win the USGP Final and second consectutive overall USGP Title. Photo ©: Joe Sales
GP de Ster Sint-Niklaas - C2
St. Niklaas, Belgium, January 2, 2008
Elite/U23 Men
1 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 59.37
2 Radomír Simunek (Cze) Palmans-Cras 0.05
3 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) Palmans-Cras 0.07
4 Gerben de Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 0.08
5 Sven Nys (Bel) Rabobank 0.10
6...
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