I went to the cx race in Springfield which ended up not being there but in Lincoln, IL. The course has 1/4 of road and lot's of snow, rain, and mud. There was a pretty big uphill that you could not ride up. The MTB folks with their bikes were able to get up but I couldn't on my cx bike. The fields were small but there were many. I entered 2 races with 15 riders in each. I DNF'ed on the second one due to mechanical, hard to ride with your derailer in the spokes. The first race I finished abotu 10th.