Routes / Cyclocross / Ostrava Blast Furnaces
OSTRAVA BLAST FURNACES
CYCLOCROSS27 NOVDRYCZECHIAWORLD CUP · OSTRAVA · 2026-27
UNDER THE BLAST FURNACES
LAP2.97 KM
CLIMBING+37 M
OBSTACLES5
CORNERS37
TIGHTESTR 4 M
ON FOOT10 M
RIDERS0
THE LAP
gravel 1,900 m grass 635 m asphalt 237 m cobbles 202 m an obstacle
THE COURSE
- HOST
- Ostrava, Czechia
- WORLD CUP
- On the World Cup in 2026-27.
- RACE DAY
- 27 NOV: usually dry and fast.
- SETTING
- An old industrial site.
- ON FOOT
- 10 m a lap, in 1 stretch.
- SECTIONS
- The east meadow (from 61 m), Blast furnace no. 4 (from 740 m), Hlubina (from 1069 m), Blast furnace no. 4 (from 1451 m), Místecká (from 1987 m), The amber footbridge (from 2317 m)
5 OBSTACLES
| Obstacle | At | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| FLYOVER | 961 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| THE PIT | 1252 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| STAIRS | 1444 m | 12 steps, 2.5 m up, on foot, the bike on the shoulder |
| TUNNEL | 1641 m | Under the course |
| FLYOVER | 2343 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
37 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 4 m, at 18 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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