Off Season. What now?

[LaFlorecita]

Really? I would have thought you would spend the entire off season posting pictures in the Contador thread.

That too

 

[kingjr]

Watch Biathlon. Best sport in the world next to cycling.

 

[the asian]

Moving to the Clinic obviously. It could be a very busy winter.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Watch my local football team Kidderminster Harriers play home and away every week. Also the National Hunt horse racing season starts to get serious over the next few weeks. I shall be making several trips to Cheltenham racecourse for some meetings there.

The clinic should also be pretty busy over the next few weeks.

The new season will be here before we know it!

 

[T-Nielsen]

Ill be on here arguing over hypotheticals, which riders are better, and looking for fights.

No you will not.

 

[RHRH19861986]

Anyway, the Tour Down Under is not that far away...

Exactly. 20th of January 2013 should be Classic Criterium opener of TDU, but AFAIK, 3rd of January, there´ll be Herald Sun Tour, also in Australia, plus the Aussie Road and TT NCs. So November and December are the really only two months of the year without WT, HC and .1 racing.

The days of Het Volk being the first big thing are fortunately over. Nowadays, thank God, already January offers fast world class road racing, with TDU, San Luis, Amissa Bongo, Ouverture Marseillaise and Calabria (when it´s held in January). And these races are definetely taken serious also by the very best riders. Greipel is not worlds far away from his Tour sprint speed, Contador and Nibali do San Luis with just 2 or 3 kgs over Tour weight.

Still, this season isn´t over, with last stage Beijing, Tour de Vendee, Chrono des Nations and Japan Cup.

 

[taiwan]

Moving to the Clinic obviously. It could be a very busy winter.

The Clinic is now experiencing the culmination of years of diligent 'h8ing'. It's the place to be clearly.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

24 hour biathlonvision thanks to the IBU's world class coverage and ZDF's video archive.

With occasional breaks for XC skiing and Nordic Combined.

 

[Echoes]

Off season? Where do you see an off season?

We have 5 months of cyclocross ahead of us.

If there is such a thing as an off season, that would be in July but even then you have interesting races like the Tour of Austria.

 

[Descender]

Off season? Where do you see an off season?

We have 5 months of cyclocross ahead of us.

If there is such a thing as an off season, that would be in July but even then you have interesting races like the Tour of Austria.

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[LaChouffe]

I picked depression, but am now second guessing it. Need to start scouting this year's results for next year's fantasy team.

 

[rghysens]

Watching cyclocross, yeeeha!
Should have been an option.

 

[austy37]

Watching cyclocross, yeeeha!
Should have been an option.

i like watching the races but miss having comentary in english, (I dont really understand the finer tactics I guess), is there english comentary on eursport anywhere? Or is anyone prepared to podcast some comentary for me?
as a side question, has any ex-mountain biker ie hejsedal/evans ever race cross and how do you think they would go?

 

[greenedge]

Prepare your CQ team

Yes i have been doing that as well. I think it will be an obsession of mine now that NRL and AFL seasons are also over but there is Cricket and soccer.

I voted for re-watching races and just lurking about reading all the CN news and go on the forum.

 

[rghysens]

i like watching the races but miss having comentary in english, (I dont really understand the finer tactics I guess), is there english comentary on eursport anywhere? Or is anyone prepared to podcast some comentary for me?
as a side question, has any ex-mountain biker ie hejsedal/evans ever race cross and how do you think they would go?

Miguel Martinez did some cyclocross races in Belgium a couple of years back, his results were somewhere between 20th-30th place.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I'm half way through the 2008 season and halfway through Le Tour.
Often fills in for a quiet week.
Watching old races just about keeps me out of the "falls into depression" category.
That and the track cycling....................

 

[movingtarget]

I'm half way through the 2008 season and halfway through Le Tour.
Often fills in for a quiet week.
Watching old races just about keeps me out of the "falls into depression" category.
That and the track cycling....................

All preferable to the so called race in China.

 

[ValleyFlowers]

It's not going to be an 'off season' for lawyers on several continents.
Likely to be an uncomfortable season for a lot of riders too.

 

[ValleyFlowers]

All preferable to the so called race in China.

Agreed. Doesn't speak well of GCP management. It's almost like they don't know what they're doing.

 

[Carols]

There is so much going on in the clinic that I missed the poll over here!

Usually I would select watch old races, but this year is a Special year. Having difficulty keeping up now!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

play pro cycling manager

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

season is over ._.
What are we supposed to do until next year?

assassins creed 3

 

[Dedelou]

All preferable to the so called race in China.

Actually the Tour of Beijin was not so bad this year. Although it needs a better mountain stage, the riders did well to make it interesting.

 

[CobbleStoner]

Whaa? it's a great time of the year for racing, Amsterdam 6 starts Monday, then the whole 6-day season, and if you are way old school or a hipster bandwagon jumper, there is the cyclocross season that just started too

 

[Andre.J]

We could watch Nys and Albert battle it out. And we can try to figure out who won the Tour in 1996.. and also between 1999-2005.

And we can start predicting Paris_Roubaix? Boonen or will Gilbert give it a go? Same for Tour de Flandres.

Andre