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 made have been numerous. From years of training to leaving my wife and family home during the holidays. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary to achieve your lofty goals..." You can read more of Brian's thoughts on Euro Cross Camp at his personal blog, www.b-matter.blogspot.com....
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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. Most folks over here are shocked that the riders themselves must pay for their racing here. My goal remains: finding sponsorship for a US Cyclocross Development Program.
2. Which riders I need to enter for the Roubaix World Cup in mid-January. The deadline for entry through USAC is the end of this...
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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 Proctor and ECXC. Gavin also represented the USA in last year's World's race in Treviso.
Gavin explains how his race went after a poor starting position due to an "error"...
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Superprestige #6 - Diegem Elite Men - 49 starters 1 Zdenek Stybar 01:00:442 Klass Vantornout :083 Sven Nys 4 Thijs Al5 Bart Wellens :39 24 Troy Wells 2:5528 Jonathan Page 4:0431 Matt Shriver 4:38 34 Brian Matter 5:47 Juniors 1 Tijmen Eising (Ned) 36.242 Lars van der Haar (Ned 0.023 Wietse Bosman (Bel) 0.054 Michiel van der Heijden (Ned) 0.205 Corné van Kessel (Ned) 6 Zach McDonald (USA) 0.33 12 Gavin Mannnion (USA)23 Eric Emsky (USA)29 Gody Kaiser (USA)33 Joseph Dombrowski...
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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 about every turn. It's a sprint to and from every turn for an hour. I was racing for 39th in my group and I attacked the Brits like I was racing for first. That's all there was to it."
Will on life at Team USA House: "...Breakfast at 8, training,...
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