Elite Euro Cross Camp Rider Brian Matter shares his thoughts about life in Belgium, racing against the best in the world and making sacrafices.  This is the recent Rider Diary entry on CyclingNews.com website. Brian’s thoughts are insightful and honest.  Brian writes, “Even though it seems life on the far is easy, it’s not. The sacrifices [...]

Just finished up the evening meeting with the guys. Everyone in good spirits. We’ve had some strong results and ample fresh experience thus far at Camp 6. Someone asked me in an email what we talk about at a team meeting. Here’s tonight’s agenda:
1. Tallying up which riders still need to pay their camp dues. [...]

Here are the latest and greatest installments to the ECXC Diaries on CyclingNews.com.  Chris Wallace, Will Dugan, Morgan Ryan, Gavin Mannion and Bjorn Selander share their thoughts on ECXC VI.

Bjorn racing during ECXC IV. Photo Courtesy Cycling-Pics.be

East Coast rider Gavin Mannion, Hot Tubes Development Team, comes to Belgium from Dedham, Massachusets.  This is Gavin’s second trip to Belgium with Director Geoff [...]

 
Superprestige #6 – Diegem
 
Elite Men – 49 starters
 
1 Zdenek Stybar 01:00:44
2 Klass Vantornout :08
3 Sven Nys
4 Thijs Al
5 Bart Wellens :39
 
24 Troy Wells 2:55
28 Jonathan Page 4:04
31 Matt Shriver 4:38
34 Brian Matter 5:47
 
Juniors
 
1 Tijmen Eising (Ned)             36.24
2 Lars van der Haar (Ned           0.02
3 Wietse Bosman (Bel)            [...]

The intriguing blogs of Will Dugan.  Will hails from Burlington, VT and rides for RGM Watches/Richard Sachs.  This is his first visit to Euro Cross Camp and to Belgium.  Check out both his blog and his CyclingNews.com Diary.
Will on Belgian racing:  ”…The racing attitude is a little different here. People want to fight for every spot and just [...]

You don’t get crowds like this in North America.
Race day at the Zolder raceways.

Find complete results at 

CyclingNews.com

Elite Men – 65 minutes
1 Thijs Al (Ned) BeOne – Chain Reaction Cycles        1.02.10
2 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team                 0.02
3 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Sunweb Projob            0.08
4 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank                                     0.22
5 [...]

Many of the riders at ECXC VI are keeping blogs filled with thoughts, impression and photos of their time in Belgium, racing cross.  Here are just a few:
Jeremy Ferguson & Cody Kaiser (California Giant Berry Farms/Specialized): “…We had an early rising of 5 o’clock am, and were off and running by 6 for about [...]

First Race out of the gate for the ECXC crew in Izegem came in the form of a carrot field in Uitbergen.  Between late flights and bikes not showing up, not all ECXC riders raced.  Find more results and info here at the Flanders Organization of Cycle Sport or Wielerbond Vlaanderen.  Just scoll down and [...]

With limited numbers of riders able to race at Zolder, some of the other riders went to a local race in Beernem.  Check out Morgan Ryan’s Diary entry at Cyclingnews.com.
Here’s just a taste of Morgan’s impression of the course:  ”…Next, there was a small road section that switch-backed down the hill to a marina and it [...]

Daily Blogs from ECXC Riders on the famed Cyclingnews.com website.  Check out the latest and the greatest!

Hanging with a rock star.  ECXC VI riders hang with Alum Jeremy Powers.
Eric Emsky 21.12.2008 “…To me, camp is an opportunity to race my brains out and have some fun. I love racing in Belgium [...]