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Belgium

# OSTEND BEACH

CYCLOCROSS 31 JAN SAND BELGIUM

CYCLOCROSS · OSTEND

THE RACECOURSE, THE BEACH AND THE SEA

LAP 3.30 KM

CLIMBING +39 M

OBSTACLES 8

CORNERS 38

TIGHTEST R 6 M

ON FOOT 64 M

RIDERS 0

## THE LAP

The lap's surfaces from the line round, 3.30 km: grass 2,320 m, sand 721 m, asphalt 256 m; a tick at each obstacle

grass 2,320 m sand 721 m asphalt 256 m an obstacle

Elevation profile: 39 m of climbing over a 3.30 km lap, the surfaces under it

Map of Ostend Beach, north up

## THE COURSE

**HOST**

Ostend, Belgium

**WORLD CUP**

Not on the World Cup since 2022-23: one of the classics.

**RACE DAY**

31 JAN: usually sandy.

**SETTING**

A beach.

**ON FOOT**

64 m a lap, in 3 stretches.

**SECTIONS**

The racecourse (from 0 m), The esplanade by the grandstand (from 1650 m), The beach (from 1786 m), The tide line (from 1935 m), The beach (from 2119 m), Below the Royal Galleries (from 2290 m), The old swimming pool site (from 2541 m), Along Koningin Astridlaan (from 2733 m), The racecourse (from 3064 m), The finish straight (from 3238 m)

## 8 OBSTACLES

Ostend Beach: its obstacles from the line

| Obstacle | At | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| THE PIT | 207 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| FLYOVER | 573 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| FLYOVER | 794 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| PLANKS | 1061 m | Two boards across the course: hop them or jump off and run |
| FLYOVER | 1197 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| STAIRS | 1701 m | 8 steps, 1.6 m up, on foot, the bike on the shoulder |
| FLYOVER | 1786 m | A bridge over the course, 5.5 m up |
| STAIRS | 3038 m | 24 steps, 5 m up, on foot, the bike on the shoulder |

38 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 6 m, at 21 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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