As racers head to Louisville, Kentucky — site of 2013 Cyclocross World Championships — there’s a chill in the air. Fall has reared its sometimes-ugly head. Mud and muck abound.

In Rochester, we saw rivalries reignited and champions rise and fall. We interviewed Stephen Hyde as he showed us his preferred method of making eggs and stroked his red mullet, and we spoke with Ellen Noble, America’s rising women’s elite star, who won her first UCI C1 race.