A video preview of the 2009 Cyclocross Nationals course in Bend,OR done by CX Magazine.
Looks cold And if the course dries out (or at least stays frozen) it looks like it could be a speed race. One set of barriers (unless I missed one), a 15 step run up, and several quick short climbs that in a group could easily turn into run ups. Looks to be a fun course Unless the temps go way up and it turns in to a mud pit Or like the 2007 KCCX Nats, frozen one day, mud and standing water the next, then a frozen rutted nightmare... Guess we'll see
"Now don't get the idea I'm a boozer. Setting out deliberately to get drunk is pathological. I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room. I'll turn to less mainstream substances if I want to rearrange the furniture" Switters in Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins