Just wondering what everyone else races and have found helpful to cross. Do most focus on road, mountain or only cross?

Cross is my first love. I also race road (cat 4) and mountain (sport). I'm hoping the mountain bike racing will pay off in handling skills, and road racing/crits are just filler till cross season starts.

what about you?

Adventure racing...and endurance mountain bike races.

I do about 10-12 mountain bike races a year. I also race on the road--mostly TT's and crits.

Endurance MTB races...

Perfect training for cross. ;-)

LP

Road races usually around 10-12 a season.

I've really only dabbled in racing but in several types, triathlon, adventure racing, 24 hr mnt bike, and road racing (running). I figure I want to focus on adventure racing with tri's and cyclocross as support racing of sorts (for 2007 that is).

Fairly new to CX as last season was my first and I'm hooked.

I mainly race on the road and will have around 40 races by the end of the road season including RR, Crits & TTs. I'll also do a couple MTB races a year on weekends when nothing else is going on (usually a last minute thing).

this year I'm planning on a full CX schedule (locally) which should be around a dozen races for me.

left turn guy, starting to race the track as well. took my first scratch race last week

Mostly roadie stuff, plenty of crits, I think they help your cross, as do MTB races. I jump in a running race or duathlon in the fall for laughs, the cross country ski race in the winter, also for laughs. I do a lot of riding with extra resistence added to the bike, also.

Basically anything that involves a bike, some MTB races, TTs, Crits, RRs and a few duathlons. Next year I may be doing a triathlon as well as some DH races.

I do everything just for laughs.... though I will be the first to admit it's not so funny during the event vs the before & after! I race duathlons & cross, once in a very blue moon, I go running.

Cyclocross is my main racing for the year. I got my start in mountain biking though so I usually do a few of the more fun events in the area each year. I have done some road racing but never really got super into it but I'm the president of my road bike team so I try to do at least one road race a year. Actually other than cyclocross my main racing for the year is nordic ski racing. By the time cross season ends it is time to start skiing and by the time late March rolls around I need a break from it all.

Renee
www.madcross.org

I do running races (usually trails) in addition to riding. 6 so far this year with 2 of them being ultra marathons and only 1 road race - that being a marathon.

Oh. I'm so jealous Renee. I wish I could XC ski race. Heck, I wish I could XC ski, but not in Columbus Ohio.