Originally Posted by
caloso
... don't assume anyone's looking down on you.
No, I don't, and I wouldn't care if they did. Many decades ago (I was about 20) some friends of mine and I, all experienced runners, went to a summer track meet and ran a 4x400 relay. We were dressed in various t-shirts and the other teams were track clubs with spiffy identical uniforms. We didn't even have a team name. We were from Daytona Beach and when the starter came to our lane and asked the name of our team, we said "Daytona Beach Petunias." The starter wrote down "Daytona Beach Track Club." We won the race. I look at it this way. If I ride my gravel bike and finish behind someone on a time trial bike, well, that's how it should be. But if I beat someone who's riding a time trial bike...