I choose races. I am a pro cat 4.

I choose because of location, date, nature of the race environment, how popular it is with my team, etc. That is all.

There is only 1 race on the calendar that I have forsaken...and that's a little crit we have here called Fox River Grove (FRG). It has a climb that runs along-side a ski jump. I have no business racing in that race. I have done it. a few times. I only stand to get in other's way and get pulled 15 minutes into it.