Originally Posted by
kudude
are you crits time or distance based? 10 miles = what, 25 minutes?
Around there. We gave Cat 5s 30 min + 5 laps (of a 0.8ish mile course with a short hill). Two races each week since field limit for 5s is 50 and we'd get more than 50 usually. This year it'll be distance based, not time based, so perhaps 20 laps (which is what they'd do anyway).
It's also illegal to give Cat 5 prize money, primes worth anything (whether cash or merchandise), etc. Really sucks actually, being a 5. But I guess it's motivation to move up.
If I could be a Cat 5 road racer, I would. But even those guys out climb me because I've gotten dropped by them. So I'm a Cat 6, maybe a Cat 7, road racer
cdr