Race Thread

[TourOfSardinia]

I don't understand Marie Schreiber's tactic of starting super fast and then blowing up halfway through the first lap. Every race.

Gets her on telly.

 

[KZD]

Predictable win for Iserbyt in Ruddervoorde.

 

[DNP-Old]

Albert Withen Philipsen just won in Aarhus.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I don't understand Marie Schreiber's tactic of starting super fast and then blowing up halfway through the first lap. Every race.

Possibly she sees that she's at the front and gets carried away.

Predictable win for Iserbyt in Ruddervoorde.

Predictable but not guarenteed until the final mud section.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Albert Withen Philipsen just won in Aarhus.

And still only a 2nd year Junior.......

 

[theyoungest]

Possibly she sees that she's at the front and gets carried away.

She does it every time though. Right now she just acts as a pacemaker for the favourites.

And still only a 2nd year Junior.......

He won the junior race.

 

[jono]

Disappointing (to me) start list for the women's USCX race at Falmouth. No Holmgrens, no Honsinger. Another Rochette coronation, surely.

 

[Sciatic]

Disappointing (to me) start list for the women's USCX race at Falmouth. No Holmgrens, no Honsinger. Another Rochette coronation, surely.

I was surprised by that as well. And indeed Rochette grabbed the win by 20 seconds.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Disappointing (to me) start list for the women's USCX race at Falmouth. No Holmgrens, no Honsinger. Another Rochette coronation, surely.

Yes. A bit disappointing especially as Honsinger said she would have a more domestic based calendar this year. I wonder how much control Lidl Trek have over the Holmgren's calendar already and whether that has anything to do with it.

 

[theyoungest]

I was surprised by that as well. And indeed Rochette grabbed the win by 20 seconds.

In the men's race Van Kempen and Van den Ham were on the podium. An American and a Canadian

 

[jono]

In the men's race Van Kempen and Van den Ham were on the podium. An American and a Canadian

Good battle for spots 2-4 in the men's race. And even without the Holmgrens, the combined top 5s of the two elite races featured no fewer than 6 Canadians out of 10 spots. On the men's side it seems due to so many of the better American crossers devoting more time to gravel (being compelled by sponsors to do so), but on the women's side the Canadian riders are simply stronger overall.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

The Canadians seem to have a bunch of promising riders at the moment across a few disciplines.......

She does it every time though. Right now she just acts as a pacemaker for the favourites.


He won the junior race.

And - what you trying to say? We know he won the junior race.....You can be a bit of a pain in the ar5e at times.....

 

[jmdirt]

Good racing today!

 

[theyoungest]

And - what you trying to say? We know he won the junior race.....You can be a bit of a pain in the ar5e at times.....

Well, thank you Then I don't understand your post, I guess.

 

[Wyndbrook]

I don't understand Marie Schreiber's tactic of starting super fast and then blowing up halfway through the first lap. Every race.

Recent article on WF where she says she was always bad at starts and specifically trained to improve them.
I thought a new season she would hang on longer than she has. Wait and see how season goes I guess.
Although she has been suffering with an elbow injury.
Says her first big target is the euro u23.

 

[Gwbert]

Recent article on WF where she says she was always bad at starts and specifically trained to improve them.
I thought a new season she would hang on longer than she has. Wait and see how season goes I guess.
Although she has been suffering with an elbow injury.
Says her first big target is the euro u23.

She might get a podium, but not sure i see her beating Backstedt.

 

[RedheadDane]

So, yeah... it's raining a bit in Århus today. This is from the Junior race:

Withen won, btw.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hitting that pole can not have been nice...

 

[theyoungest]

She might get a podium, but not sure i see her beating Backstedt.

Well actually, if you look at today's race, she just might. Just like Bentveld. But Backstedt is of course a championship rider, so maybe next week she'll be better than she's been so far.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Yesterday and today, Lars van der Haar has apparently regained the ability to hop planks, which he very rarely did last year.

 

[theyoungest]

Lots of boos for Iserbyt. The Belgian public clearly prefers the chosen one, Thibau.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

After 14 years or more of CN Forum hosting manager games for road racing, finally the time has come for Cyclocross.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

The results in the end haven't been exactly surprising, but how close the top 10 and even top 15 of these first few races has ben really interesting. It almost makes one not want to have the likes of WvA and MvdP come back.

Also a real variety of nations in the top 10 now with Orts, Kuhn, Mason adding to van der Haar, Ronhaar and Nieuwenhuis as non Belgian riders.

 

[Sciatic]

Recent article on WF where she says she was always bad at starts and specifically trained to improve them.
I thought a new season she would hang on longer than she has. Wait and see how season goes I guess.
Although she has been suffering with an elbow injury.
Says her first big target is the euro u23.

She should share her “training for starts” program with Clara Honsinger, who needs that more than anything.

 

[DNP-Old]

Albert Withen Philipsen is on the startlist for the European Championships.