The US Cyclocross Collection (USCX) returns for a 3rd season with eight races at 4 signature occasions on the east coast this fall, with elite riders vying for a $15,000 prize purse for a second time.
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Go Cross introduced by Fats Tire will kick off the sequence on September 16-17, adopted by Rochester Cyclocross in New York on September 23-24 and Allure Metropolis CX in Baltimore, Maryland, September 30-October 1. The sequence concludes October 28-29 in Falmouth, Massachusetts on the Actually Rad Competition of Cyclocross.
Elite fields will cut up the purse equally, $7,500 for each men and women, as soon as the ultimate races are accomplished in Falmouth on October 29. Inaugural ladies’s sequence champion Caroline Mani (now with Groove Off Highway Racing) retained her crown with a 60-point margin over second-placed Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Basis). On the boys’s facet, Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis) took the crown final 12 months in a decent battle towards Eric Brunner (now with WTB-Pivot Off Highway) that got here all the way down to the ultimate weekend and three factors.
All 4 occasion weekends will function reside streaming on GCN+ for the elite races, out there with a paid subscription. Organisers at every venue additionally plan to have meals vans, a beer backyard, music, skilled announcers and youngsters’s actions for spectators.
“Our objective with USCX has all the time been to host 4 weekends of premier racing for each elite and newbie athletes,” mentioned Scott Web page, sequence co-founder and government director for Rochester Cyclocross. “Cyclocross is so thrilling to look at and we wish to give these unimaginable athletes a platform on which to shine. We consider integrating these 4 occasions into the USCX Collection does that.”
The elite contests, which embody a set of C1 and C2 races every weekend, are additionally a part of USA Biking’s Professional CX calendar. Every USCX cease additionally offers a factors competitors for amateurs.
A quartet of US-based, UCI cyclocross occasions joined forces to launch the USCX Cyclocross Collection in 2021, spotlighting eight professional races for elite women and men. Rochester Cyclocross led the way in which, adopted by Allure Metropolis CX in Baltimore, Jingle Cross in Iowa Metropolis and Kings CX in Cincinnati. Jingle Cross is now not on the ‘cross circuit, whereas Kings CX stays on the schedule for Professional CX. The primary 12 months didn’t supply a prize cash for sequence winners, however upgraded the stakes to a mixed $15,000 purse in 2022.
USCX 2023
- September 16-17 – Virginia’s Blue Ridge Go Cross introduced by Fats Tire in Roanoke, Virginia
- September 23-24 – Rochester Cyclocross in Rochester, New York
- September 30-October 1 – Allure Metropolis CX in Baltimore, Maryland
- October 28-29 – Actually Rad Competition of Cyclocross in Falmouth, Massachusetts