CHARCLOCROSS 2025

Same things as last year - A CX-ish race around a makeshift forest track. Underwear-swap-relay-race in the middle, and hillclimb competition at the end. CharcloooooooOoooooooooooooOoooooo!

︎Google Drive download link here
Credit @cyyycles on Instagram ︎︎

︎Race officials officialising.

Underwear-swap-relay-race:

I still can’t believe this is an official UCI discipline… (Underwear Cycliste Internationale).

Back to the main race:

HILLCLIMB:

Disclaimer: the camera wasn't angled to make the hill look steeper, the trees are growing sideways in this area for geological reasons.

Et merci Philippe for preventing participants from falling to their death!

Podium time:

Et merci l’orga!

× These photos could all have been 100% sharp, but that’s not my style, I guess. Here is what I used:

Camera: Sony a7rIII.
Lens 1: Zeiss 25mm f/2.
Lens 2: Zeiss 55mm f/ 1.8 (the one I used the most).
Lens 3: Sony 70-200 (the one I thought I would use the most but I almost didn’t use it).
A flash + transmitter + flash holder - mounted on a tripod.
Batteries for everything + camera/lenses cleaning stuff.
Extension tubes for close-up shots I didn’t use.