How to Go Through Barriers in a Cyclocross Race

Video Transcript

"So you want to take as few steps as possible when you're running through a double set like this. You know. Or run up or anything like that; just nice, clean, long strides. And the way you start that out is you start out by making sure that when you get off you're bike, you're doing it cleanly. You know putting you're foot nice and far ahead so that when you go to pick up your bike, you know, just go nice ling strides, because you almost want to use your momentum. It's not like you're really sprinting or running when you get off. It's really more like your legs are just hitting the ground instead of your wheels, and they're rolling across. So as I come through this section again, notice how I stretch my stride out to be as long as possible, to still fit in between the barriers. So it's just, you know, one, two, long strides, just stretch them out. And you know, the distance between the barriers is fairly regulation, we're just using sticks today, but normally you have, you know, 16 inch high planks that are, you know, a certain width apart so if you, you know , erect your own sort of practice barrier somewhere, like in your yard, you can practice that all day. And ah, it'll become second nature, and it will go through nothing like there."