I really love cyclocross. I am terrible at it, but it's so much fun (I mean, after I finish coughing up a lung). It's a great workout, it's social, I end up covered in mud and sometimes my own blood and snot, but it makes for great photos and hardcore points (for a person who isn't particularly hardcore and has never really liked her running race photos). It always seems to be equal parts hilarity and pain.

And I love that it's not something that really requires special training. I already run and bike and now mountain bike. Those are all good training for CX. My mounts and dismounts are really the only things I should be practicing.