Just got back home from watching 3 days of racing (Hulst, Zonhoven & Mol).
Hulst was a great race to watch, as the banks in real life are really quite impressively steep, racing was good & the course was super easy to watch a lot from various points.
Zonhoven was nuts, if you are into CX then I would put it on the list to go & see, along with soaking up the atmosphere. In the bowl is a great experience, and watching VDP humble the rest of the field was impressive. There was a few key points around the course yesterday which he looked like he was just cruising around & everyone else was buried in the cave. The race for 2nd was pretty good, at one point there was about ~10 of the field taking chunks out of each other for 2 or 3 laps until it blew apart.
Today was also another VDP display of dominance – the first few laps it looked like he was just chilling in the pack & then got a bit bored, Sweek tried go go with him but the real time blow up was spectacular.
Ate too many frites & mayo, drank too many beers, went a bit hard in the party tent in Zonhoven, but had a great 3 days. Belgians know how to do cross.