And damn it. I looked at a clock an hour ago and my body said LUNCH and I thought yeah. Now i look down at the computer (only clock that is correct) and it says noon? Damn. I guess I'm having an early lunch.
Stupid time change.
Race duration. If a race is supposed to be 45 minutes, shouldn't the leaders race AT LEAST that duration? If you are turning 6-7 minute laps, wouldn't it be best for "racing" to have the race leader finish around 47-48 minutes instead of 40-41 minutes?
Goes back to the plus one rule. Why not? Why not just let them race for 45 minutes and then tack on an extra lap? And then along the same things. How about just having a Cat 3 masters race, instead of a 1.2.3 and a 3.4? Far too many Cat 3s anyway, no? Wouldn't the 1/2 racers like to be free of the pack fodder at the start? Wouldn't the fast Cat 3's like a chance to upgrade to a 2? Wouldn't the Cat 4s be best suited to racing as a Cat 4 until they upgrade on points? Yeah, too confusing. I've heard all the arguments before from FOPs and Ps. And they do make some sense. The whole timing, number of riders on the course at one time. But then I look around (or specifically to the pacNW) and see a workable solution. At least it seems so to me. Yeah they do it differently. And yeah they use weird goofy cones instead of course tape and stakes (although in the sand at NoHo saturday there was a wicked sharp broken wooden stake looking ready to spear someone in the quad). Might not work in well established regions like NE. Heck our officials out here have a hard time scoring races correctly. Some riders who go off the back and get lapped wicked early don't even get scored a lap down. And that isn't even an isolated event. But then maybe because our team is so distinctively liveried and there are many of us in one race, well the officials get confused. Esp since we are generally well dispersed from the front (skinny white dude) middle (c-burke) and back (me and g-ride, face it, we are the back markers and we aren't as fast as the other two). That and while the back to guys might be slower, we don't usually look like we are slower. Except well saturday, Pinkie said i looked pretty sick racing, definitely not normal out there.
oh it looks like Nathan Spear is back in gear for this year. Check out his vid offerings.
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If the race is supposed to be 45 minutes, and the leaders finish at 47-48 minutes, where does the last backmarker finish? 55 min? There's another race starting at 60 minutes, so running leaders to 48 means almost no time for anyone to ride the course between races. That's why the err on the side of shorter, plain and simple.
I don't understand why you're complaining when you always get 45 minutes or more, anyway.
forgot about that line of reasoning...
okay there ya go chalk another "man he's an idiot" up in my column.
I'm obviously with Willi on this one. The Elite women's and the 1/2/3 master's races should not be shorter than the 3/4 women and Cat 4 men like they were at Noho. If there is only 40 minutes available for the race, then say so, don't say it's 45 and then make it 40.
The races used to be 45 or 60 plus one lap. Then they changed it to avoid the situation Colin describes. Since then the laps at most courses have increased, and the officials have become overzealous in their chopping of the races. 36-37 minutes for races labeled "elite"? It's more important to give the course time to the races that are going on than it is to accommodate the riders who want to warm up on the course.
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