It ain’t a cyclo-cross unless you get off the bike at some point and run, son. Sorry, but them’s the rules.
Still, today’s Superprestige Gavere was a great bike race. It’s hard to judge the quality of the surface when you’re watching streaming Internet video in an itty-bitty window, but that said you wouldn’t have caught me out on this course without a mountain bike. Maybe a double-boinger, too. It looked like one hell of a rough ride.
Sven Nys just squeaked past Kevin Pauwels at the line. Ten more meters of pavement and the kid would have punk’d him again. It was that close. Poor old Niels Albert looked like Death eating a cracker when he rolled in for third.
Tim Johnson scored a fine 12th-place finish after a rough start — “f’d the first few corners and paid the price big time,” he noted on Twitter. Jonathan Page, who in contrast had a great start, rolled in a couple places behind Timmy J; VeloNews‘ man on the scene, Dan Seaton, says Page spent a bad night with the gut rumble, then cramped up on the bell lap.
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P-Dawg, Everyone loves your race reports @ VN, so why can’t they give y’all some tickets to report on scene–you tellin’ me Herself wouldn’t like a trip to the land of Chocolate & Monk Ales?
Thanks, Hoss … glad you’re enjoying the reports. Alas, if VN ever ordered me to Belgium all the TSA guys would be puking after one look at me in their Porn-O-Scanners and I’d never make it out of the airport.
I’ll go in your place Patrick. I don’t mind the TSA d-bs…..only because by the time I come back they’ll all be gone.