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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!
 
Mar 17, 2012
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kanari said:
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.
 
Aug 18, 2009
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the asian said:
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.
 
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. :D
 
Echoes said:
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. :D

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Mar 30, 2012
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I picked depression, but am now second guessing it. Need to start scouting this year's results for next year's fantasy team.
 
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rghysens said:
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?:D
as a side question, has any ex-mountain biker ie hejsedal/evans ever race cross and how do you think they would go?
 
Hugo Koblet said:
Prepare your CQ team :p

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.
 
austy37 said:
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?:D
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.
 
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....................
 
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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.
 
Jun 11, 2011
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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

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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