The Hits Just Keep on Coming – Lindine

Washing Up the Easy Way. Photo Courtesy of Brian Matter

“The course at Loenhout is nothing if not a really good example of an inventive use of open featureless space. When I say that a lot of it is just a farm field, I’m not kidding. But through the magic of design – plus a lot of sponsorship dollars – out of this field rose multiple flyovers, and a pump-track like whoop section (if you think this sounds like fun, go to your local BMX track, put 20lbs of air in the tires of your cross bike and try it out: it’s terrifying at high speed, and I like pump tracks)” writes Justin Lindine in his CyclingNews.com Diary entry. Lindine writes about the day of racing at the GVA Loenhout race. On a course that was very muddy and sloppy and eventually won by Sven Nys, Lindine got a taste of true Northern European weather. Justine mentions the conditions: “The weather was pretty atrocious…I mean, nice typical Belgian weather. In other words it was two degrees Celsius and raining. It doesn’t take a degree in soil science to guess that rain, plus bike racers, plus a farmer’s field equals all sort of pasty, peanut-buttery mud. Sweet! Because really, my bike has not had enough beat into it over the last couple of days.”

Justin Lindine rides for BikeReg.com/Joe’s Garage/IF and lives in Maplecrest, NY. This is his first time to Belgium with EuroCrossCamp. Check out Justin’s Diary entry and other entries at CyclingNews.com.