The CCXL Summer CX Series consists of 4 x Wednesday evening races at the MK Bowl, all hosted by a different club. Each club will put their own personal spin on the course, food and even play lists. The Summer CX races are a little more chilled than the normal league races, but still have the normal sites of timing, sign on, food and hydration.

Riders who are affiliated to the Central CX League will get discounted entry to the races. Affiliate to the league below.

(britishcycling.org.uk)https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/club/profile/7813/central-cyclo-cross-league

Info for Riders

Location: MK Bowl, enter from Wattling Street entrance. https://w3w.co/wiring.nipped.dreamers

Race Format

The race will generally be the same as any other CCXL race, a gridding area, start and finish line, and the course marked out with tape (maybe not all of it). The summer series races are evening races with 2 waves across the entire session. Each of the 2 waves consisting of a youth race and a mixed adults race, the format, stolen from the successful Ashwell series works well, and means you can race according to what time you get home etc.

The adults will start at the front and the Youth riders will start 1 min behind. The adults will be mixed gridding, if you have a preference to start at the back please let the organiser know or simply slot in when all the names have been called.

Please try and race in the same wave every week, as these are the riders you are racing against, to get an overall series position you need to race 3 of the 4 rounds. 

Each race will last 30 mins plus 1 lap.

Races need to be entered by 23:55 on the Sunday evening prior to the Wednesday. You can enter on the day but you won’t be gridded and you’ll be starting from the back.

Gridding will be carried out by George, age 15, based on a theory only he knows so don’t start crying if you think you should be closer to the front, he’s doing his best (its his IT Project homework). It will be mixed adults and juniors, then the U14/ U16s will start 60 seconds after.

The cost to race for an adult (>16y/o) is £10 (£11 for non affiliates) and a Youth (U14 / U16) is £4 (£5 for non affiliates). ALL of the money raised will be invested back into CCXL to purchase timing chips and a timing system for the season, this drastically reduces the cost of hosting a race.

Age Categories:

• Youth Male & Female - (Born U14 – born in 2010 or 2011 / U16 – born in  2008 or 2009)
• Adult (born >2005 / Junior – born 2006 - 2007)

Race schedule:

Wave 1

• Course open from 5:20
• Wave 1 – 5:45 start

Wave 2

• Wave 2 – Sighting Lap 6:30 - 6:50
• Wave 2 – 6:50 start

• Course tear down - please help for 10 mins if you're around.