I’m just finishing up my first season of Cross, have a couple friends who are MTB’ers but have been doing cross for a couple years. They asked me if I wanted to try cyclocross and I said “sure, what’s that” Did my first race on my full suspension bike and came in dead last too. Borrowed a bike for a couple races and it helped so much, and just bought my own cross bike a couple days ago (Giant TCX slr2). It’s loads of fun and the people are great. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to try something new.