3 Birthdays, 1 win

• I planned to do a nice gravelride with some friends in the morning, change wheels, go home and make a cake for some other friends. Coming to work in the wet and cold as it was the meetingpoint I changed my mind, was way too bad weather for me to ride in I felt so said good luck to Patrik and Ola and skipped the first step and changed wheels before rolling back home…
• In Ronse the World Champ Sanne Cant started the first race in DVV Verzekeringen Trofee cup with the goal to win. But instead of beating Katie Compton she stepped of with stomachpains (too much cake?).
• In the Netherlands it was the National XC (M?) Championships and this years first mtb race for Annemiek van Vleuten. She didn’t fail like me and Cant but won another title instead 😀

Hope van Vleuten and Cant had as good end of their birthdays as I had 😀 And now starts a new year that can be even better 😀

 

Koppenbergcross

Have you seen Sanne Cant smile? So many reasons to watch last weeks race if you missed, Sanne Cant’s smile is one thing. Awesome and tight racing in perfect autumn weather is another one. A race where you can’t tell who is going to win

But where is Helen Wyman?

Belgium national CX Championship

It’s been a lot on national championships in cyclocross last weekend and road in Australia and New Zeeland. Here are the races from Belgium.

Women:

Men:

Cyclocross Scheldecross

Lots of racing this weekend. Here are Saturdays replays.

Women Scheldecross:

Men Scheldecross:

 

Replay: Bpost Bank Trofee Essen

Only cyclocross race Zdenek Stybar did this year.

women:

men:

BPost Bank Trofee Hamme Zogge

While waiting for better times (tomorrow) I can recommend to watch the replays from the CX racing in Belgium yesterday. No ice 😉

Tomorrow I hopefully will show you some great pictures from the Spotify Morning Ride I will do 😀 Will be extra awesome as I got my new pair of wintertights from Café du Cycliste today 🙂

Replay: CX WC Koksijde

You don’t have to be sorry anymore missing the Cyclocross World Cup last sunday anymore. Here are the replays:

Video Jaarmaktcross Niel

Here is the replays if you missed the racing yesterday in Niel. Women:

Men:

European Cyclocross Championships

Women U23 got their own race and men elite had their race for the first time. A new era is here.

Two people following the cyclocross grow as a sport and sharing it with us is Balint Hamvas and Elisa Haumesser.

Magic pictures from a magic day (for some). Watch the rest of the photos here:

Cyclephotos.co.uk

Elisa Haumesser

Koppenbergcross with Verschueren and van Aert

Wout van Aert came like a rocket last season winning a lot. This year it’s a new Belgian riding coming fast. The small Jolien Verschueren. Today she won the big Koppenbergcross:

And Wout van Aert won the men’s race in a great way: