'Isn't cyclocross hard enough already?'

Apparently not, if you're the course designers/sadists for the Nats course. Check it out. Hopefully you're already pre-registered if you're wanting to go into your pain cave in December. If not, it sounds like the course is super spectator-friendly. One disadvantage to not having Nats on the left or right coasts, or even here: the beer tent is sponsored by Anheuser-Busch. Yuck.