globecanvas

Gigantic bear in the back yard just now.

Son #1 : "This is amazing! It's so big! I can't believe it's right in our yard!"
Son #2 does not rouse himself from his ipod.

Doge

I feel the desire to do a long rant about USAC development. Any suggestions where to do that?

hack

new USAC director says he will respond personally to all email ... give him a shout

dz_nuzz

Not his smartphone? Damn your son is old-skool.

Homebrew01

download & Run Malwarebytes

Homebrew01

Yup. Strava doping is common out here too. The group rides I used to do got tiresome listening to Strava talk for hours.
There was a flat loop that some guys did. Turned into rival TTT groups battling it out.

big john

For some reason my cable co has given me Universal Sports again after I didn't have it for years. Just in time for the Worlds, I have thoroughly enjoyed the racing, especially the elite road races.

Stas87

My water heater failed last night, had to take a cold shower this morning. Debating whether or not fix it myself of have the landlord reimburse me, or wait a few days for them to fix it. Solder joint broke on the outlet, relatively easy fix. Frankly, I haven't soldered in years and I'm probably too rusty to do it cleanly.

globecanvas

If you wait, then you have to take cold showers for a few days, then have the indignity of realizing that the plumber's solder joint is just as sloppy looking as whatever you would have done.

topflightpro

What's your complaint this time?

Things seem to be going really well on the women's side of things.

canuckbelle

Question for y'all who know better: What does it take to get into an NCC race? Is it just open registration for those of the relevant categories? For some races one has to qualify via another race (what does it take to qualify?).

One of my season goals for next year is to cat up to cat 2 early in the season (hopefully making cat 1 by the end of the year) and to do a couple mid-to-late season NCC races (and then be doing a bunch of NCC races the following year).

mike868y

p sure any cat 1 can enter

Grumpy McTrumpy

sand paper and flux. then the joint just fills itself.

Doge

Got to write my letter. But a significant part is matching the selection courses to the event we are trying to win/dominate. The TdF GC guys were less than ideally suited to this course and I expect that contributed to them not being here. If showing well at worlds is a priority selection should be done based on who will/can do well on whatever the worlds course is. USAC should remove most/all the automatic selection criteria.

I'm following the prize and sponsorship money side.

globecanvas

Only the P/1 field is the official NCC race, and is invitational by definition. I believe different events vary in how easy or hard it is to get invited.

The surrounding event may have other categories/fields, sometimes even like an open 1/2 field in addition to the invitational P/1 field, but only the P/1 race is the NCC event, everything else is just a regular race, albeit most likely a race with a lot of spectators and pro-ness. For example, Tulsa Tough has something like 30 separate fields/races over 3 days, but only 3 of those races comprise the NCC event.

On the women's side, I would guess that it's not hard to get invited to NCC races, but that's just a guess.

canuckbelle

Thanks And...how does one go about getting on the invitation list? (And from what I understand, women's races are P/1/2 whereas the men's are P/1)

Stas87

Landlord called, plumber will be at my place this afternoon. Assuming they what they're doing, I should have hot water later tonight. Next time, I think I'll just resolder the joint myself.

globecanvas

That's beyond my brief. @Racer Ex ?

Doge

On the men's side I understood NRC and NCC was team invite only. So the trick was to get on a team that was invited. For women, I did not know there was a Criterium Calendar - meaning there are no NCC races for women (might be wrong) even though the venue is shared. So - likely to do the P12 - you just need to be a 2.

canuckbelle

There's a women's side to the NCC: https://www.usacycling.org/ncc There are no 'women only' NCC events (as far as I know), just as there are no 'men only' NCC events. Each has both men's and women's NCC races...no?

globecanvas

Pretty sure that's wrong. https://www.usacycling.org/series/20...criterium-cale


Also I am fairly sure that individuals can be invited to NCC races in addition to teams.

Grumpy McTrumpy

Our local NCC race had women P12. The prize lists are mandated as equal now. I spent several hours talking with Tina Pic about races like NCC.

Doge

I was wrong.
This may help:https://s3.amazonaws.com/USACWeb/for...m-Protocol.pdf

canuckbelle

That's the *team* protocol, though. So that's only if a team wants to get ranked within the NRC. Doesn't say anything about individuals.

And I've confirmed that women's NCC are P/1/2 whereas men's are P/1.

canuckbelle

Which is very awesome

Also...what did ya talk about?