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regulations

While many, many, many, many, many, many people have eagerly and vehemently advocated for various rules, guidelines, boundaries, outlines, parameters, regulations, suggested behaviors, moral compasses and good ideas for life in general, we've found that happiness comes from simplicity. This is all you need to know to race ecstatically:

1. If you hurt yourself, it's your own damn fault.

2. Cross bikes only.

3. All mistakes in timing, finish order and reporting of results are final.

4. If you cheat in a race that takes place place in someone's yard and has its crux in a foot sprint through a kid's sandbox, you are a dick.

Ephemeral and arbitrary variations will be added and subtracted as each season progresses. These include things such as the duration and nature of the PBR and other bonuses (there was, once upon a time, a huge time bonus for making Petey the Goat faint), the disposition of barriers and your behavior in the aftermath should you knock them over, the reward and punishments doled out to our various leaders and race-within-the-race winners - but all these and more are naught but noise drowned out by the symphony of Fifth Street Cross.

 

About Cyclocross
Cyclo-cross (sometimes Cyclocross, CX, cyclo-X or 'cross) is a form of bicycle racing. Races take place typically in the autumn and winter (the international or "World Cup" season is September-January), and consists of many laps of a short (2.5–3.5 km or 1.5–2 mile) course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and remount in one graceful motion.

Races for senior categories are generally between 30 minutes and an hour long, with the distance varying depending on the ground conditions. The sport is strongest in the traditional road cycling countries such as Belgium (and Flanders in particular) and France. -from Wikipedia