Off season races?

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Davis on December 6, 2010 at 7:06pm

There are a few early spring CX races around, mostly pre-XC warm up's. There are however a lot of STXC (short track cross country) races that are basically fat tire versions of cross without the barriers. I have found that those are perfect for per-cross training.

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Permalink Reply by Beth Hamon on December 6, 2010 at 7:45pm

Hear, hear! Portland has a great STXC series that runs seven weeks from late Jun through early August. When it's over, I take a couple of weeks off from intensity and then dive into 'cross clinics and practices in the weeks elading up to Cross Crusade. It's perfect, really. And it's FUN.

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Permalink Reply by andrew on December 6, 2010 at 8:32pm

get in touch with larry grossman and ken getchell, both who are on these forums. larry did cult cross which had races in march/april in colorado, and ken did an august or july race two years ago but had to cancel last year (spectacross).

i'm a fan - and am trying to work with a local mtb promoter of having a cx category in his 8 hour mtb race. so many of the mtb races aren't that hard technically that you could have a cx category I think - that's one way to do it without another standalone event.

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