Lucinda Logo (Baloise Glowi) gained the overall spherical of the Actual Pass sequence in Sint-Niklaas on Saturday. She battled for all 5 laps towards Sara Casasola (Crelan-Corendon) and made her successful move within the signature sand segment simply sooner than the end line of Waaslandcross, leaving the Italian with 4 seconds again in moment position.
Crelan-Corendon pitted two riders towards Logo, with Casasola’s teammate Inge van der Heijden fading overdue within the contest and taking 3rd, 34 seconds again, with time to spare to the Belgian chasers Julie Brouwers (Charles Liégeois Roastery CX) in fourth and Marion Norbert Riberolle (Crelan-Corendon) in 5th.
The 7th spherical of the regional sequence used to be held in northern Belgium on a chilly, transparent day, brilliant sunshine bouncing off the huge Waasland sand sections alongside the lake. Logo, who competed in simplest two rounds of Actual Pass, gained Saturday’s contest for a fourth time in her occupation, now tied Sanne Cant with essentially the most victories on the match.
For Logo, it used to be her tenth victory of the cyclocross season, the place she swept titles on the Global Cup, Superprestige and X2O Badkamers Trofee sequence for a 3rd time in her occupation. She simplest raced two of the Actual Pass occasions, going 3rd on the opener in Beringen after which successful the finale at Sint-Niklaas.
“Every victory is different, you cannot compare victories with each other. But I am extremely happy that I was able to win ten times this season,” Logo informed Het Nieuwsblad.
“The legs didn’t feel so fresh anymore, but that’s probably logical at the end of the season. I was happy that the pace dropped off a bit now and then.”
Logo got rid of briefly round Inge Van Der Heijden to the entrance as a way to steer clear of the large swarm up the primary of a number of huge runups. On lap two, Casasola attacked and the Italian took a five-second lead on Logo and Van der Heijden. Then again, a fall by way of Casasola at the slippery off-camber nook allowed Logo to rejoin and two matched pedal strokes for many of the subsequent 3 laps.
Logo threw the hammer down throughout the huge sand segment at the ultimate lap, gaining a handful of seconds with a decisive move of the Italian. Logo held her momentum within the ultimate corners and hit the straightaway to the end for a four-second margin, scoring her tenth victory of the cyclocross season.
Casasola went four-for-four with podiums at Actual Pass races this season, whilst her teammate Van der Heijden scored 4 podiums in 5 begins.
“I tried to attack several times, but that wasn’t enough,” Casasola informed Sporza on the end. “Could I have done anything differently in the final round? I don’t think so, because I was at my limit and Lucinda was very strong.”
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