Keirin Cross at Fifth Street
About this race
Keirin-ish CX at Fifth Street
Sunday, November 22 | Emmaus Compost Center | 9am
PACX is wrapping up. Cross season doesn't have to.
We're cutting the FSX/Pineapple CX course down to a 2.5–3 minute lap and running track-style keirin heats on it. An e-bike pacer leads lap 1, then pulls off, and it's a full-gas sprint to move on.
Lose your first heat? Cool. You ride again. Nobody's driving out here for one race and a sad gas station sandwich.
HOW IT WORKS
- Every heat: Line up behind the e-bike pacer. Nobody passes it. When it pulls off, it's on.
- Round 1 (2 laps): The top 1–2 go straight to the Semis. Everyone else heads to Second Chance.
- Second Chance (2 laps): The top 2 move on. We split up Round 1 heat-mates so it's a fresh fight.
- Semis (2 laps): The top 3 go to the Major Final. The rest go to the Minor Final.
- Finals (4 laps): Major Final for places 1–6, Minor Final for places 7–12.
- Breaks between rounds so your legs come back. Mostly.
ENTRY
Free. Bring a 6-pack: beer, cookies, whatever you'd actually want to win. We pool it all and split the haul at the end.
WHY YOU NEED TO REGISTER
We need 24 riders by November 20 to make this happen. Your signup is how we know if we've got a tournament, so don't be the reason we don't. Heat sizes and final numbers get locked in once we know who's in.
THE FINE PRINT
This is a proof of concept. If it wraps early, we'll make up something else dumb and fun. We want it worth the trip.
Rule #1, as always: don't be a dick.
Pick your distance
Cycling
Open Keirin
If we have a large contingent of Women/NB/Juniors/etc then we can break up the race, but to get numbers, please register under this catch-all.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 2 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Emmaus, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:56 AM and sets at 4:39 PM local time (EST) in Emmaus on November 22, 2026 — 9h 43m of daylight.
Course
No course map published yet.
The organizer hasn't released a route for this event, and we don't publish guesses. If you're the organizer, send us a GPX file and we'll draw the profile.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 8 Emmaus events
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