MICKEY DENONCOURT: When you race in cyclocross, you know, the first thing--let's start off with the start. The start is extremely important in cyclocross. It's a mass-start event. You're usually racing between 20 and a hundred other people. And the course may start on a nice, wide-open paved road, but there's going to be a bottleneck at some point on the first lap, and you want to be, you know, as far ahead as you can at that point or else you're just going to lose a bunch of time and, you know, the race is basically over a minute into it. So, you know, practice getting starts. We'll talk about how to get good starts. There's different types of corners. You have wide corners, narrow corners, corners you can pass through, corners you need to follow through. We're going to talk about, you know, how to make that pass through a corner, if you want to pass through a corner and how to get through corners without wasting, you know, much energy. Oftentimes, cross racers stay together in small groups. So you need to be able to know how to sprint people at the end of the race to, you know, get those points. You know, you've been riding around with people the whole time, you know, and you want to get ahead of them at the end. So we'll talk about some sprinting techniques and a few other tips and techniques and stuff like that that we'll go over as well.
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