Originally Posted by
mattm
Just skimmed the article - a good perspective.
All I know is there are still tons of races happening in Norcal every weekend (Jan-Sept), and hundreds of people showing up to them. Probably too many races in fact.
Way more annual road racers in total than all the gravel "events" or fondos.
Sure road racing #'s may be down, but not tanking by any means.
I've never done an NCNCA race, but they run things almost the polar opposite of how we do down here. The race day schedules they put out are great (for Masters at least) and there is a great mix of races. Every year I look at the calendar there are 5-6 I'd like to do up there, but I can't convince the wife to go a couple hundred miles for a 2-3 hour race.
We are planning on doing Sea Otter this year though.