Yeah, I heard it was a 60 minute wait for the shuttle post race yesterday.
For those driving in, you can park at the Walmart or Lowes nearby and walk in. It’s about a 15 minute walk. That’s what we did and it worked out good.
That’s how it appeared to me - pretty boring/very little variety compared to the usual Belgium and Dutch courses - not a lot to break up the rhythm. Of course the local terrain and conditions play a part, daily temp swings from -8 to +8 might mean you don’t/won’t get mud but yeah - no boards or sand section that would be relatively easy to include.
Definitely suits the power riders, just look at the women’s juniors and elite races, once a break was made they just kept going at a pace and the gaps didn’t really go up or down to any significant degree. Zoe Backstedt went for it on the first lap and got a 30 second lead. 4 1/2 laps later she crossed the line 41 seconds ahead.
Just WOW WOW WOW!
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Some boy is Tom🤩
So Pidcock has now won CX World Championships at junior, U23 and elite levels. Has anyone else done this?
You know Marianne Vos would have if the junior and U23 categories had existed before 2020 and 2016 respectively 
Marianne Vos is in another league 
A bit like Eddie Mercx in his first TdF, he would have won the white jersey for the youngest rider but the jersey didn’t exist then. Not to worry, he won the other three plus the combativity award!
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Best winning celebration ever!
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At least three others did: Bart Wellens, Lars Boom and Niels Albert
A 1990s MTB track results in a 1990s geo MTB with drop bars winning 
Great race though. Excellent punches in the first few laps and then Piddles just said f that and off he went. Lubly jubly!
Could see after last weekend he had the form over the others. Carried it through and with smarts too by having fuel on board to have each lap. I’m sure I’ve heard that mantra of carb grams to win from somewhere…if only I could remember where…
I thought Pidders was gonna lose in the first two laps, the Belgies kept throwing punches and he kept going to the front. He just went. Somehow 1 was stronger than 4.
The beer situation was much worse today. Basically only Miller Lite with small exceptions.
I thought the racing was good, but the course boring. A bit of water would have made it more interesting I think, but I’m not sure if it would have changed the outcome.
The best defense is a good offense. When you are the strongest guy out there, team tactics don’t much matter.
Same thing with Pogacar last year in the Tour…lots of people talking about the “team strength” of Ineos or Jumbo…but at the end of the day, when the strongest guy says “OK, enough” the race is over.
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Oh…and a shoutout to the fan on the climb with the “Protect” sign. Thank you, whoever you are.
IYKYK.
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Was cool to see the WC’s in the US, but that course wasn’t a very interesting CX course IMO. Definitely needed barriers or another section like that switchback/off camber section. Watching the races felt more like a dirt crit than a CX race.
Other than the stairs, it was a grass crit.
But I will say that the course was completely different in October vs. this weekend…but rain will do that for you.
They should have had barriers and / or a sand section somewhere…both of which are man-made and therefore not weather dependent.
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I thought that about the dirt crit. But then the strongest cx riders won, and the medals also went to cx riders, so maybe it was a cx course after all.
There is an argument that all of the winners are really strong multi-disciplinary riders, so maybe it was just a case of “the strongest riders”, but then Iserbyt and van der Haar are specialist cross riders, and they dropped Cobrelli.
This course was the closest to a euro style course that I’ve ever seen in US. Most US courses are a collection of bottlenecks and zig-zags. I do agree there could have been a few features to slow it down. They were almost going 20mph!
Ta, pretty sure there must have been as the commentary didn’t specifically mention it.
I need to look again at the move Pidcock made on the 4th lap - he cut inside Van de Haar and got the line forcing VdH wide who then had to make more of an effort to get up that banking. He then almost stalled which in turn forced Iserbyt to put his foot down. Meanwhile Pidcock hammered it and put 50m into them in a few moments. Game over.
Pretty sure that was intentional to cause the effect that it did…was surprised the following riders kept so close to the wheels in front of them like that. You would have been better off to allow a small gap coming into that steep bank so that you could come over the top w/o worrying about other riders stalling at the top. It happened in a lot of the other races over the weekend.