Junior CX starts

David Krause

2014-09-21

Big thanks to the crew and everyone involved in putting on Zaaldercross today. Hoo boy, that one hurt. Beautiful venue, great course, great vibes all around.

I would like to suggest a change to the starts for the juniors. I really think the juniors in the junior series races should be released in waves according to age group. There was a crash at the junior start today, (which can happen in any category at any time, of course), but I think it points to some inherent sketchiness to how things are being done right now. You have kids with all different experience levels taking off at the same time in a big mass. The kids are lined up according to age, not ability, so you can have rank beginners out for their very first race lined up right in front of some fast veteran kids who are just a year younger... plus, when a crash happens you potentially have kids of very different sizes getting tangled up together. IMHO, for the junior series races in which the results are age-group specific, it would be nice, (and safer) for the kids to be released in waves.

-David