Chloe Hosking Blog: “If anything warranted a blog…”
I figured if anything warranted a blog it was winning a stage of the Giro Rosa. Also, one of my pushy Twitter followers suggested I should write a blog so here I am. I’ve started the Giro four times, five including this year. I’ve finished twice. As a sprinter it is not an easy race to finish. As a sprinter preparing for the Qatar World Championships (read; dead flat) when the rest of the peloton are preparing for the Rio Olympics (read; extremely hilly) I was sceptical about my chances of finishing a third. And to be honest, the...
read moreChloe Hosking Blog: “Don’t stand when you can sit…”
I don’t want to stereotype. But I will. Cyclists are inherently lazy people. There’s a saying popular amongst us; don’t stand when you can sit, don’t sit when you can lie, don’t lie when you can sleep. As such we’ve developed a number of strategies to help aid and abet our laziness these include, but are not limited to; living with our parents, doing all three Grand Tours so as to limit the time when we have to do our own washing/cooking and binge watching television shows. I moved out of home when I was 18...
read moreChloe Hosking Blog ” Is my music an acquired taste?”
My teammates might say I have an acquired taste in music. What this actually means is that when I offer to DJ in the team bus before races I often receive the following answer, ‘No, but we’ll still use your speakers.’ Unless, of course, it’s the young girls. In which case they don’t have a choice and will listen to what I decide. No one ever said this was a democracy. But I thought I’d bring a third party to the, well, party and get your opinion. Is my music an acquired taste? Would you want my tunes or...
read moreChloe Hosking Blog: #ThrowbackThursday to the Omloop van Borsele!
In 2009 I got off a plane in Amsterdam and had no idea what to expect, who I was meeting, or what I was getting myself into. Walking out of the baggage claim area with my suitcase and bike bag – packed for seven months and bursting at the seams – I saw a little old man, greying hair, glasses, big smile, jeans and a smart sweater waving at me. That must be Harrie. Through a friend in Australia I had been put in contact with Martine Bras (a former rider at Boels-Dolmans) and Martine had in turn put me contact with Chris Rouw and Harrie van der...
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