Both sports leave the pavement, but cyclocross compresses its effort into an hour of repeated technical laps while gravel stretches racing across long roads and changing terrain.
The World Cup gives cyclocross its international spine: a season of sand, hills, points, and major winter races from the opening round to the final weekend.
Cyclocross packs an hour of mud, sand, running, barriers, pits, and repeated attacks into a short circuit. This is how the racing works and why the winter season has its own heroes.
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