Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

But how many people realisitically are good enough that this could be an actual opportunity for them? Pehaps 100? The rest are Walter Middys. And if you are good enough, there are other avenues to get noticed. Why spend $150 entry fee, and travel expenses to Indianapolis to compete in a format where you could be the strongest rider, win your heet, and lose to someone you couldn't race against, only because the other heet had a different group dynamic? Not to mention subjecting yourself to the risk of riding in a pack with guys on tri bikes that may have never done a mass start road race?