lucinda brand fem van empel 2 6724d692960a4 With an early acceleration, Lucinda Brand put her competitors on a gap in the X2O Rapencross in Lokeren. The Dutch champion gave her all to keep rival Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado at bay, and she also managed to gain extra seconds in the X2O standings. That regularity classification is a target for her, as she told IDLProCycling.com afterward.
In the post-race flash interview , Brand said that she didn’t want to push herself to the limit, keeping the Cross of Niel on Monday in mind, but that didn’t quite work out. "I wanted to balance between going as hard as possible to the finish and not pushing to the limit, because we have another race tomorrow," said the Baloise Trek Lions rider. "But you also want to grab all those seconds. Then I started losing my concentration and made a lot of silly mistakes. That is something I need to be much more critical of."
Brand took the lead as early as the second lap. No one could follow her, so she quickly went off on a solo venture. "I just need to try to make it tough. It’s hard to follow here because you hit a dead spot every time when you’re in the slipstream, so I thought it was better from the front, and we’ll see." Annemarie Worst and Sara Casasola held on the longest, but they too had to drop back pretty fast. Brand noticed that. "If I’m having a […]
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