I've always believed that moving to cat 2 is a death sentence for some riders. If you have the life constraints that keep you from training to be a competitive cat 1 being a cat 2 has to suck. My teammate Waterrockets is good example, like you he started to dominate cat 3. But he can't train enough to be a serious contender in 1/2 RR's. It's hard to be competitive in 90+mi RR's when you've still only got cat 3 time to train. I feel for ya, too bad you aren't old enough to race in the Masters cats...I guess being old has some advantages.