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race format
Fields have been as small as four, and as large as 30. Skill and fitness levels range from the rank beginner to just about as good as you can get without pot belge. Fifth Street Cross has hosted world champions, national champions, regional pros, and those magical sorts of plain old regular people who blow the doors off just about everyone they meet. Course layout changes each season, and throughout the season as the route is adjusted to deal with mud, water, snow, blowdowns, property disputes and dead smelly animals. The race is generally run clockwise (though once a year or so we run it backward for the novelty) and lap times range from just under 3 minutes to 12-plus minutes. We usually hold two races a night: The first is 15 minutes + 1 lap; the second is 20 minutes + 1 lap. There are often special events through the season: The four most popular are Belgian Night, hosted by Jeremy and Amy, who serve everyone piping hot waffles and frites; team night, which pits sets of two racers against each other in a tag-team format; the Race for People Who Never Race; and our Kid’s Race. Two constants: Every race begins and ends on the driveway so spectators get a good view of the action; and there is some sort of bonus for drinking a PBR between laps. (In the past this has ranged from a 1-minute time bonus per beer to a 1:30 time bonus.
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About Cyclocross
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Fifth
Street Cross is an unlicensed mass-start cyclocross race run at
night on a poorly designed, horribly maintained, unexpectedly dangerous
and ridiculously fun course cut through someone’s yard.