BONUS: Surviving the Spring Classics

BONUS: Surviving the Spring Classics

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The Spring Classics are done and dusted for another season. When I was a pro, I used to absolutely love these races. The grit they demanded of you as a rider, the passion of the fans in Belgium, the race craft you had to possess just to survive…man, I lived for it.

This month’s episode of The Life In The Peloton Chronicles is all about exactly that - surviving and thriving at the Spring Classics. Sveino may not have enjoyed the races quite as much as I did, but he gave them a bloody good go throughout his career, and shares that deep understanding of what’s required to even just get to the finish line of these races, let alone win them.

If I had to summarise the Spring Classics in a word, it would be ‘Passion’. You need to have passion for these races, for these roads. You have to be prepared to basically die for every single corner - that’s how intense the fight to be at the front at the key moments is. If you don’t have that passion, you’ll never win that fight, and you’ll be spat out the back quicker than you can say ‘Kwaremont’,

Svein and I are just a couple of old guys, really, so we spoke to some young talent to see if the demands of these races that left such a deep impression on us as riders are still there for the next generation.

Kell O’Brien has just wrapped up his fifth go around the Spring Classics circus as a pro. Hailing from Melbourne and riding for Jayco, I see a lot of myself in Kell. He came across as a young man, and did his time taking a real beating in these races - learning the hard way just like I did. Now he’s been around for a few years, he’s starting to carve out his spot in the bunch and get more and more out of these races. I loved chatting to Kell and hearing just how much it means to be a part of these prestigious, historic, crazy events and how much he’s grown as a person not just on the bike, but off it as well because of it.

Sveino caught up with the young American prodigy Riley Sheehan from team NSN. Riley tasted success at the classics before his pro career had even started, winning the late season classic style race Paris-Tour when he was just a stagiere! A trainee getting their hands in the air is rare enough as it is, but to do so at a race with gravel sectors and all the fighting and chaos as a Belgian classic shows just how much potential there is. Naturally, that kind of result puts a lot of pressure on a young rider, and repeating that kind of success in races that some riders take years to crack is no easy task. Fortunately for Riley, he absolutely loves the fight and the pure racing that plays out on the roads, cobbles, and bergs of Belgium and Northern France.

As always, I loved chatting to Svein and having a yarn like we do every month. Being able to relive these races and hear about the experience of a couple of talented young riders only makes me love them even more. Only 345 days until Roubaix 2027!

Guys, thanks for being part of the Pelo and getting behind everything we’re doing here at Life In The Peloton. You’ve done a great job keeping the echelon rolling throughout the crosswinds of the Spring, and now we’re only a few weeks away from chasing back on through the valleys of Italy together…after being dropped in the mountains.

Cheers,

Mitch

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