Mon, January 18th, 2010
Winter Veteran Vikings
“use the force my young apprentice”...we got it in 2002 and still do
Actually I’ve just spend 5 minutes trying to figure out how to combine the three words in the headline. Anyways, Thomas Bonne and I took the glory in the Wintercup in Aarhus and The Slush Cup in Copenhagen. It was winter, we caused havoc in the peloton and we sure as hell are old.
I felt old for sure. From the gun I just had to let go of my Idol Allan Bachmann, crazy Erik Skovgaard, and always Junior Simon Qvortrup. I felt like my heart just couldn’t follow the pace. It hurt and I started to get dizzy…(!) Well after spending the last part of the first lap taking it easy I was back on track. The trio was just 30 sec away and I felt I had the advantage on the very icy and tricky course. One lap later I found myself forming a quartet with the guys. And from there on everything went as usual: Bachmann rarely let go of the front and you could open a gap on him after every corner, Simon crashed on a defect bike and Erik slowly had to let go of his non human pace. That left the old diesel Viking in front and I slowly pulled away with 2 laps to go.
Thomas Bonne also managed to show the Danish elite how to handle in icy conditions and took a noticeable scalp at the Urban Slush cup as he beat Henrik Andersen, Tommy Nielsen, and the rest of riders in red. I think you could call it the Danish winter XCO championships.
We are not in April but I think this weekend showed that Team Rivette is alive and kicking!
