Mud!

Every year the girls, boys, women and men of the cycling world dust off their 'cross bikes, put on some knobbly tyres and gather come rain or shine for the winter cyclocross series. Gruelling races in freezing cold after days of rain and with mud everywhere. It is the hard winter training that sorts out the winners from the rest when the spring and summer race season starts. It's a long, long way from the sun drenched Avenue des Champs- Elyses in July! Chapeau! to them all.