movin' on up ...
08-20-07, 09:54 PM
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rider of small bicycles
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movin' on up ...
I've just upped my subscription to the two-wheeled torture chamber.
4 ---> 3
That is all.
Mark
4 ---> 3
That is all.
Mark
08-20-07, 09:56 PM
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Peloton Shelter Dog
08-20-07, 10:29 PM
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Peloton Shelter Dog
08-21-07, 06:43 AM
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Making a kilometer blurry
Hey, congrats!
08-21-07, 12:46 PM
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Texas Fight!
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Congrats 
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08-21-07, 03:15 PM
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Peloton Shelter Dog
Actually, it's far more pathetic than that CI. When I started Cat 5 WAS Cat 4, and you didn't have to upgrade. I remain... a Cat 4.
Never let it be said that Pcad didn't always reveal the unvarnished and painful truth to his cycling brethren.
Never let it be said that Pcad didn't always reveal the unvarnished and painful truth to his cycling brethren.
08-21-07, 05:33 PM
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Sensible shoes.
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It gets even worse. I started as a 4 way back and they had the gall to make me a 5 this year. You don't even want to know my ranking. <scroll down> <more> <just a bit further> <almost> <there>
08-22-07, 05:38 PM
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Yes ... yes ... I've heard it's true. But 90% of the guys I know that have recently moved up hold their own or even find themselved winning 3 races. This led to my hypothesis that upgrade rules from 4 --> 3 are in fact too stringent. Case in point, if you do 10 USCF races per year (which is a decent number in my region) you've got to average 5th place in every race. I won a total of 1 cat 4 race on my way up and had to scrape by with top fives in the rest of my races to get enough points. This on a ~7 race per year schedule. I race ~40 times per year, but the vast majority are club races.
Mark
08-22-07, 06:36 PM
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Congratulations! Have fun in the threes.
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