Re: Masters at Cherry Pie; was Cat 3's at Cherry Pie

Oregon-@cs.com

2004-02-17





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Not a bad idea, Tim. With a racing age of 60 and just a year of racing in my

legs (Cat-4), I'd welcome a chance to go out with a Masters 3/4/5 section. I

get hammered with the Masters 45+ due to their experience and hammered with

the 3/4/5s due to their (much) younger legs.



Peter



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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Not a bad idea, Tim.  With a racing age of 60 and just a year of racing in my legs (Cat-4), I'd welcome a chance to go out with a Masters 3/4/5 section.  I get hammered with the Masters 45+ due to their experience and hammered with the 3/4/5s due to their (much) younger legs.<BR>

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Tim

2004-02-17



Maybe changing Cats. from Masters 35 and 45 to Masters 1/2/3 and

Masters 3/4/5 would encourage more Masters age guys to race the catagory,

at least at the Cherry Pie Race. It is a bummer if a younger racer couldn't

get a

start spot. But the Masters are usually a fast bunch, they often lapped C

racers

at the cyclocross races.

Anyway, too much participation is great problem to have!



Tim Maloney





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Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Cat 3's at Cherry Pie





 

Candi,

Since this is my first year in Oregon coming from Colorado, it is

interesting

to see your numbers. CO Masters 35+ was basically and Open/Pro

race only

bested in speed/talent by P/1/2 races. If I would have decided to

race this

early in the year I would have done the Masters, even if I got

dropped. They

might intimidate some of the other lower category masters

riders, but most have

a job to go to on Monday and don't want to get

involved in careless crashes

that happen in the early races, especially with

a field of 111. That would

have been a wonderful training ride.



Anyway,

your information is great and I think from what I see and hear about

OBRA it

will far exceed my expectations of providing grassroots racing

coordination

as did my former membership with ACA in CO. Keep up the good work.

Tim

Ehlers, just a

cat4

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