No Northern Hell

muttado1sb ha'sonnet, Poetry, short form, Sport April 4, 2020April 9, 2020

The bicycles
are up on blocks
Not on cobbles
nor chasing clocks
No peloton
should dare go on
with this virus

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2020

Written for the postponed Paris-Roubaix 2020 bicycle race, also known as “The Hell of the North.”

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

Published by muttado1sb

Published April 4, 2020April 9, 2020

BoardFlak says:

April 5, 2020 at 4:27 pm

Your mention of Peleton brings up an interesting mental image of the cross-country race being conducted on identically programmed stationary bicycles sent to mimic the challenges of the terrain.

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1. muttado1sb says:
  
  April 5, 2020 at 11:13 pm
  
  Thanks, BF! They actually have those challenges. You don’t the the shoulder to shoulder feel or in tight strategy, but nor do you get the large crashes.
  
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  1. BoardFlak says:
    
    April 6, 2020 at 11:51 am
    
    The wave of the future, perhaps.
    
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  2. muttado1sb says:
    
    April 9, 2020 at 10:11 pm
    
    I was just reading this week that the Tour of Flanders was done last Sunday as an erace with the bicycles on rollers. And the Tour de Suisse is going to be done as an erace on Zwift stationary bikes. They streamed the Flanders race and the Suisse one will be too. Both races have pro riders competing.
    
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