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Road cycling races are a popular and intense race format in the summer. While not as popular or as common as Triathlons, there is a lot of interest and money in Road Cycling, which raises the stakes for timing.
Many if not most road cycling races in North America are highly managed by their local PSO or the National Sports Organization. There are benefits and drawbacks to this, the high level of organization provides fairly consistent expectations, these tend to be higher than you would find in a community race.
Events such as these will provide many resources about how the race should be run, such as Tech Guides, and will have UCI commissaires present as well.
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 24 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
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- Intro to Cycling RacesRoad Cycling is incredible popular, and are exciting races to watch. Although Triathlons have a wider reach as far as participants go, Cycling sees itself as a pure form of the Sport, with over a hundred years of history. The stakes for Cycling races can be very high, both for the fans and the athletes themselves.3
- Time TrialsTime Trials are fast, individual races that have cyclists pushing constantly for every bit of speed. While the lack some of the high energy of a Mass Start event, they can be impressive races to watch5
- Road RacesRoad Races are the classic event that most people associate with Road Cycling. Mass Start races with distances over 100 km, this is peloton riding4
- CriteriumsCriteriums are fast, packed, multi lap races that are fun to watch, but messy to time. Good Luck!5
- CyclocrossCyclocross races are similar to an off-road version of Criteriums, mixed with an obstacle course.3
- Advanced Timing ConsiderationsWell that was easy. but now for the hard stuff. A lot of things in this section are very in-depth and specific to certain events. The information included here may or may not be present on our Zone4 help documentation at help.zone4.ca4
