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# ZONHOVEN SAND PIT

CYCLOCROSS 3 JAN SAND BELGIUM

WORLD CUP · ZONHOVEN · 2026-27

THREE TIMES INTO DE KUIL

LAP 2.96 KM

CLIMBING +71 M

OBSTACLES 6

CORNERS 31

TIGHTEST R 6 M

ON FOOT 40 M

RIDERS 0

## THE LAP

The lap's surfaces from the line round, 2.96 km: grass 1,757 m, sand 649 m, woods 392 m, asphalt 157 m; a tick at each obstacle

grass 1,757 m sand 649 m woods 392 m asphalt 157 m an obstacle

Elevation profile: 71 m of climbing over a 2.96 km lap, the surfaces under it

Map of Zonhoven Sand Pit, north up

## THE COURSE

**HOST**

Zonhoven, Belgium

**WORLD CUP**

On the World Cup in 5 seasons from 2022-23 to 2026-27.

**RACE DAY**

3 JAN: usually sandy.

**SETTING**

A sand pit.

**ON FOOT**

40 m a lap, in 3 stretches.

**SECTIONS**

The trench (from 215 m), De Kuil (from 364 m), De Kuil (from 1206 m), The heath (from 1761 m)

## 6 OBSTACLES

Zonhoven Sand Pit: its obstacles from the line

| Obstacle | At | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FLYOVER | 134 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| DESCENT | 225 m | A steep drop |
| THE PIT | 904 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| DESCENT | 1241 m | A steep drop |
| OFF-CAMBER | 1364 m | Across the slope: stay upright |
| DESCENT | 1393 m | A steep drop |

31 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 6 m, at 22 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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