Eric Brunner finds his groove and 'a little bit of an adrenaline rush' with pair of wins ahead of Pan-American Cyclo-cross Championships

A total of 46 weeks have passed since Eric Brunner won his third US elite men's cyclo-cross championship, and only once, at the UCI World Cup in Benidorm, has he worn the stars-and-stripes jersey. The 27-year-old focused on road racing this summer which delayed his return to cyclo-cross, but he made an emphatic arrival with back-to-back wins in UCI C2 races in Massachusetts over the weekend. Brunner overcame crashes and flat tyres to win both rounds of the 35th Cycle-Smart Northampton Cyclocross, joined on Saturday's opener by his Competitive Edge Racing teammates on the podium - reigning Pan-Am champion Andrew…