MUC OFF – Cross on the Rock 2025.  Season #19


Almost Race Season Notes:

  • UPDATE on Licenses for 2025.
    License Requirements for 2025 for Cross on the Rock. The most simple of all time.  No license required!  Race as much as you want or as little as you want.  No difference as you still don’t need a license.
  • We do have a change for our number package.  Each racer (other than the 2 kids categories) will have a one time charge of $10 set up for their race number for the season.  This is just once unless you lose or destroy your race number.  This charge will offset our change in insurance providers and overall make it much easier and accessible for people to race our events.
  • Team Competition.  We have some changes to our team competition including points distribution and time cut off for sorting out your team names.  Keep an eye on the web page for updates on this.
  • Photo Contest!!  It has been a few years.  Time for photo our photo contest again!  Each photographer can enter their top 3 after race number 5.  We will have a panel of judges to determine the winner for the season.  Prizes will be given!

1. Coal Cross Preview.
RACE #1. September 28th.  Coal Cross.  Village Park.  Cumberland. 
Registration is finally open for this event.  Sorry for the delay.

REGISTER HERE
It has taken a while to strip away a lot of what we no longer needed and add what we did need to our registration page.  We think we have it all sorted out but if you notice anything weird please let us know.

Since we are SO LATE we would also appreciate as much share-love that you can give us!!

Registration CLOSES at 6:00pm the night before each race.  Don’t be late.  Don’t forget.  Register right now!

Race Day Schedule
Race day schedule unless otherwise posted:

Registration Open9:15 am
Beginner Clinic-Pre Ride10:00 am
Launch Men(Including Youth U13 and U15)10:45 am
Launch Women ((Including Youth U13 and U15)10:46 am
Younglings (Bigger Kids). Full lap or almost a full lap11:40
Intermediate Men (Including U17)12:10 pm
Intermediate Women (Including U17 and Masters Women)12:11 pm
Lil Nutcase Kids Race12:15 pm
Masters Men (40-54)1:15 pm
Super Master Men (55+)1:16 pm
Open Men2:30 pm
Open Women2:31 pm

Race Day Awards follow a quick clean up.

2. Looking Ahead to race #2
Year number two for the Jumping Slug COTR race and already a new name!!
We hope to have registration open by this weekend since we have hopefully dialed in the processes on CCN a bit better.  Keep an eye on our web page and socials.  In the meantime enjoy the event poster.

3. Repeat: Cross on the Rock 2025 – Season #19 – Series Schedule

RACE #1. September 28th.  Coal Cross.  Village Park.  Cumberland.  Trail Bikes Bike Club are hosting the series opener for 2025.  One of the best courses for spectating in one of the best towns for biking. Be sure to pop into and check out the new Frontrunners location on Dunsmuir Street and head to Bibliotaco while you are in town!

Race #2.  October 5th.  Twin City X.  The Fair Grounds.  Port Alberni.  It was great to have Port Alberni back on the schedule in 2024 with a rowdy time at the fair grounds.  There is no better reason to go over the hump than to race bikes with the Slug Crew.  Many racers said this was their favorite race of 2024.

Race #3. October 13th.  The Muc Off Cup.  Bowen Park.  Nanaimo.  We don’t like to just throw out the word “Classic” but in this case it is justified.  Bowen park Cross on the Rock is a CLASSIC.  Our 2nd most visited venue.  A race that has held many records including BIGGEST ever COTR race (2019), Biggest Category with Masters Men 88 racers (2017, Hardest Race with 14.5% DNFs ((2014) AND 2 of the “tamest” races of the top 10 in 2016 and 2019 with less than 1.6 and1.3% DNF.  The absolute BEST way to spend Thanksgiving Monday!!

Race #4.  October 26th.  Crosstoberfest.  Transfer Beach.  Ladysmith.  We are heading back to Ladysmith!!  The Cycle Therapy Cycling Club is swapping up their race venue for this season to bring back CROSSTOBERFEST.  If you were at Crosstoberfest the last time we raced there in 2019 you will remember the tide coming in through the day to the point during the Open race that there was not much beach left for the races! 

Race #5. November 2nd.  Hot Crossed Bunnies.  Beban Park.  Nanaimo.  The ICON.  Home of the first ever Canadian National Championship held on Vancouver Island of any cycling type.  Home of the first ever sanctioned cyclocross race on Vancouver Island.  The birthplace of COTR.  Our most frequently used venue!  In 19 COTR seasons we have raced here 18 years PLUS 3 more times!

Race #6.  November 16. Broad Street Cycles GP.  Jordie Lunn Bike Park. (Greater) Victoria. (Langford).  Finishing the 19th COTR season with Victoria races for the first time since 2018 and the Day of Thunder.  We will be racing for double points and to beat our friends on the challenging course at the Jordie Lunn Bike Park.  Finishing the season with awards, celebrations and smiles after yet another amazing fall!

Hey Clubs, Teams and Groups.

Time for us to update our Teams and Clubs page  If you have a team, club, or group that is cyclocross focused or does it on the side please let us know and we will get it up on our page.

Let’s get muddy, race hard, and have some fun this fall! 💪

#Cyclocross #CrossIsComing #RockCityCycles #RideWithUs #CrossOnTheRock

Parting Shot (Looking to race #3 before Race #1!)

Newsletter #3 – Coal Cross Preview – Race Bikes. Make Friends. Have Fun.