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American Danny Summerhill (Clif Bar) (Image credit: Cyclingnews.com)

Belgium, January 4, 2009

That is what happened to me, today, and I am sure every other person at least once on this slippery course. With my crash, I bent my bars and probably broke a spoke, so by the time I got to the pit mentally, I had kind of checked out of the race. In reality, I had lost sight of the second placed under 23 rider ahead of me, so after that, I just kind of rode around pushing it hard on the straight-away sections and taking my sweet time on all of the slick, slippery sections until the finish. I rolled in with Jeremy Powers getting 21st and 22nd.

For its sixth consecutive year, the Euro 'Cross Camp will travel to Izegem, Belgium for two weeks from December 20, 2008 to January 3, 2009, with some of America's most promising cyclo-cross talent. Euro 'Cross Camp Director and US National Team Coach Geoff Proctor selected 19 male riders to take on some of the toughest courses and strongest riders abroad and to prepare for the World Championships in late January. The camp has helped the careers of racers like current US National Champion Ryan Trebon, Jeremy Powers and Jamey Driscoll. Read these diaries for hints of who may emerge from this year's crop of three elite, eight U23 and eight junior racers as America's future 'cross stars? Coach Proctor and his riders will take turns contributing diary entries.