Originally Posted by
carleton
Probably an unpopular opinion in this forum but, isn't Grasstrack Racing to Velodrome racing what CX is to Crit racing?
Basically, it's more of a CX thing than a Track thing? Or at least squarely between the two?
The simple answer, in our case, is yes.
I started our grass track because I love track racing but live an hour and a half away from a track. I race cross, my friends race cross. I found grass track racing on the net and thought it was a good way to combine the two and to give my friends who would never race on the track a taste of the racing that I love to do.
So, about a month before the start of the cross season in 2008, we started racing grass track. We've been doing it ever since.
I realize that in other areas it is it's own discipline, and I would do it year round, but I'd be racing alone. But as a training tool to get race intensity and a really good interval workout, it fits right in with cross racing.
So yes, for us, it does sit squarely between the two. We use cross bikes. We start with one foot on the ground, like a cross race starts. And we do mass start track races.
Everyone who comes out to our grass track loves it. We have tons of fun and a couple of guys have started racing at T-Town with me. But most of the people who show up are not track racers, they're mountan bikers, roadies and cross racers.
I hope my rambling comments make sense.
PI