hogie-@yahoo.com

Why 35+



Retiring this year





Lance Armstrong 34

Mario Chipollini 38

Francesco Casagrande 35

Pavel Tonkov 36

Angel Casero 33

Rolf Aldag 37

Uwe Peschel 37

Igor Gonzalez de Galeano 32

Niki Aebersold 33

Ludo Dierckxsen 41

Tristan Hoffman 35

Marco Serpellini 35

Marco Serpellini 33

Bart Voskamp 37

Javier Pascual LLorente 34

Peter Farazijn 36



Average Age 35.4



Take out the highest and lowest and it?s still 35.2



That seems to be the age when most start so slow, even the pros.



It?s too late for 06 but for 07

35+ A and B

A: cat 2/3

B: cat 4/5 and 3's over 45(unless you win too much then you're boot up)



Besides the largest number of "traditional" masters (35+) is between 35

and 39. Numbers drop in each 5 year span above that.



Richard



cmur-@obra.org wrote:

 OBRA is trying to get all race organizer to change their masters to 40+



Candi







-----Original Message-----

From: Schreck, George [mailto:george.-@pacificorp.com]

Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:27 PM

To: hutchsr-@yahoo.com; ob-@topica.com; mh-@gorge.net

Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Mt. Hood Cycling Classic now NRC but still

Master

40+ Unlike Ca







Why? Maybe the Cascade Classic should fall in line and raise the age to

40+. It seems to me that if you are under 40, you are a bit young to

claim

to be a masters racer and should be able to race with your category. In

many other sports 40 is the cut off.







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