Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Somehow wva pulled himself together after MVP pulled away (tyre doping probs, it was the year of mud ii being stitched onto something else wasn't it?) Got back on to MVP and then proceeded to flog himself further and then won it. And MVP kept getting punctures.

I think it went like that. It's early and I'm not 100%.

At last years World Championships MvdP punctured 4 times, WVA punctured 1 time. Some might argue WVA rode a more conservative race and chose those tyres because of the puncture risk, some might say he was lucky.

Not so much slow but MVDP missed the first two worlds as America was so far away and so expensive and general sulking.

MvdP was still recovering from injury at the beginning of last season so when he started late he didn't come into it with the same form he has this year from a big mountain bike season over the summer. WVA is probably aiming to peak at the Worlds, I'm still hoping it'll be closer when the mud comes, but at the moment MvdP is a class apart from the rest and it doesn't make for great viewing.

Proper testing features at Ardingly yesterday (the new descent with the hub deep rut was seriously tricky to take speed through whilst riding it), mud, but not-bike clogging mud, and a good mixture of different surfaces.