Routes / Cyclocross / Diegem Village
DIEGEM VILLAGE
CYCLOCROSS30 DECMUDBELGIUMCYCLOCROSS · DIEGEM
UNDER THE LIGHTS THROUGH THE VILLAGE
LAP3.74 KM
CLIMBING+67 M
OBSTACLES8
CORNERS25
TIGHTESTR 11 M
ON FOOT20 M
RIDERS0
THE LAP
grass 1,798 m asphalt 1,500 m gravel 235 m sand 209 m an obstacle
THE COURSE
- HOST
- Diegem, Belgium
- WORLD CUP
- Not on the World Cup since 2022-23: one of the classics.
- RACE DAY
- 30 DEC: usually muddy.
- SETTING
- A park.
- ON FOOT
- 20 m a lap, in 1 stretch.
- SECTIONS
- Eugeen Vander Aastraat (from 0 m), Round the sports field (from 243 m), Regimentsberg (from 800 m), The Kosterstraat bridge (from 1240 m), Along the railway (from 1321 m), The meadow by the football pitches (from 1748 m), Kosterstraat (from 2487 m), The sand pit (from 3163 m), The stairs (from 3464 m), Eugeen Vander Aastraat (from 3593 m)
8 OBSTACLES
| Obstacle | At | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| FLYOVER | 243 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| THE PIT | 569 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| FLYOVER | 711 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| FLYOVER | 2592 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| FLYOVER | 2751 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| PLANKS | 2892 m | Two boards across the course: hop them or jump off and run |
| FLYOVER | 3327 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| STAIRS | 3593 m | 12 steps, 2.2 m up, on foot, the bike on the shoulder |
25 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 11 m, at 29 km/h at most.
HOW IT'S RACED
CROSS RACE
So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.
- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.
LEADERBOARD
The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.
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