On a cold, wet morning in early February, snow piled up along Kyoto's Katsura River had thawed, but conditions were near-freezing on a makeshift course with a mixture of frozen and slushy mud.The stage set in the ancient Japanese capital was the final round of the Kansai Cyclocross series for the 2024-2025 season. Riders tumbled one after another and, covered in mud, were forced to push their bicycles over the treacherous surface.Cyclocross is a cycling discipline featuring off-road racing on courses with grass, dirt, mud, sand and other natural and man-made obstacles, such as fences and st…READ FULL ARTICLE
