The heart of the 2010 Gent-Wevelgem. Whole course here.
To sum up:
Date: March 28 (ie MSR + 7d; RvV - 7d)
Distance: 219km
16 punchy climbs between 100 - 190km
Climb #8 & #16 = Kemmelberg
over 2 years ago
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I am glad that they came to some sense and shortened the course up a bit...
It is good to add the climbs but you don’t need to make it monument length to make it even better. Plus the Kemmelberg is less than 10k from the finish! Should be a good race to watch.
sorry to confuse
this is a cropped version of the profile. The Race finishes at 219km…so the 2nd time up the Kemmel is ~40km from the finish.
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ah darn...
well at least it shouldn’t be a sprint
by Vlaanderen90 on Feb 16, 2010 5:11 PM EST up reply actions
D'oh
My skills of observation are not FTW today.
by Douglas Ansel on Feb 16, 2010 6:38 PM EST up reply actions
I'm excited even more now
The Kemmelberg is 25km closer to the finish. And after 15 climbs instead of 1. I’m expecting a whole lot of fun watching this one.
Duh
I started the salivation process two weeks ago. This is just more details.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 16, 2010 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
...tasty details
I might add!
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 16, 2010 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
"A transitional year"
That’s the explanation for making the race 219km instead of the 257km planned. I blogged a couple weeks ago about how they’d really loaded up the race, but now I think reality has set in. Three 250km races in three sundays might be overdoing it.
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 16, 2010 10:00 PM EST reply actions
Make that 4 sundays in a row...Let's see 298k at San Remo, then it would have been 257k at Gent, 262 at De Ronde and then
260 at Roubaix. That would be 1077k over 4 sundays not to mention the mid week offerings…I’m glad that they found their place instead of trying to challenge the others.
by Vlaanderen90 on Feb 17, 2010 12:11 AM EST up reply actions
The distance wouldn't be the problem it would just be hard for them to race flat out like that....
over and over again.
by Vlaanderen90 on Feb 17, 2010 3:08 AM EST up reply actions
There should be an award for the guy who has the highest average cumulative position after those four races.
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There is...
he gets valued at 18+ in the following year’s VDS. That should be incentive enough, right?
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