Originally Posted by
ericm979
You know how in a running race the real serious people, the ones who will be contesting for the win, line up in the first and second rows?
Bike races only have those people.
Def not true.
Bike races only have people who THINK they deserve to be in the front.
In reality, only a handful of them in the Cat5 division deserve to be there. A typical newish Cat5 rider isn't fast at all - a typical runner contesting for the local overall win (18:xx 5ks) would easily cruise to the front in a Cat5 race after getting a little bit of experience on the bike.
But it's true that you pretty much don't have any "I'm here just to finish" folks in bike racing, which make up 95% of the participants in running races.