Kemmelberg

War is often used as a metaphor for cycling. If the cycling season is a war, the individual days and races are its battles. Journalists will describe these battles in graphic detail – how individual riders suffer to crest a climb, give everything for the good of their teammates, and fight for victory and eternal glory. Cycling is a sport like no other in how it rewards personal sacrifice and glorifies suffering for a common cause. However, on occasions when we are reminded of the real terror of war, these comparisons can seem crude, and so it is with this month’s Classic Climb.

The Kemmelberg