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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.
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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
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