Weekend (And Next Week) Preview: Namur, Essen, and Herentals

Van der Poel, Wout, Vos, Pidders, and 3 races in 4 days ... should be fun.

When I first started racing cyclocross, I was definitely one of those riders who complained about, like, half the courses I raced on in Wisconsin and Chicago. Looking back, I think a big part of this was because I wasn’t very good, and thus I needed things to be laid out a certain way for me to have anything resembling success.

I wrote about this back a…