Terrain Considerations on a Cyclocross Course

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"MICKEY DENONCOURT: When you're doing a cyclocross race, you might show up at a place that's completely flat, sort of like where we are right now. And it might be the slowest race you'd do all year, because, you know, the course designer may have put in tons of tight little corners and accelerations and stuff like that. You might show up some place with a huge hill where you don't spend any time climbing and you're really just always accelerating and stuff like that. So if we look around, you know, if we look around here at what we have to deal with today, basically, we're going to have a bunch of little corners slowing us through all these trees and stuff like that, you know? I've sort of built some barriers here where I'm going to be able to demonstrate, you know, getting off and running and all that sort of stuff. But, you know, if a race is all about accelerating, if it's a whole bunch of tight corners and stuff like that, you know, it's going to be a race that's about cornering. It doesn't matter if it's steep, if it has climbs, if it has, you know, fast sections, you know? The predominant feature of the course is going to be really what it's testing. So, you know, you need to be prepared for all sorts of different types of courses, all sorts of different challenges. So it's important to really, you know, dial in your technical abilities."