[NMCycling] 2024 Tour Of the Gila

[Scott H]

It works in Gran Fondos and gravel, especially gravel, because there no
tactics involved. You’re making my point.

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, <biobiker at libero.it> wrote:

> Although I am not a crit fan, people do like them and they like to watch
> them...
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> Speaking of "lump everyone together and sort 'em out later", although I
> can understand some perplexity for the older riders, it seems to be working
> very well in basically the rest of the world and in gravel races in the US.
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> Il 02/03/2024 14:21 MST Scott H <hendricks.scott57 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> Had to go back and double check, seems the info that had been disseminated
> was last year's.  Three road races in a row is gonna be hard for beginners
> as well as the older masters.  FWIW, I'm not a fan of the 'lump everyone
> together and sort 'em out later' approach.  The older you are relative to
> the youngest/strongest groups, it removes all tactics from the racing,
> becoming not much more than a challenge of who can hang on the longest.
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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM Randy Bradford via Bike-racers <
> bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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> Format for pros- First day is TT, as it was years ago.  2nd day- evening
> crit.  3rd-5th days, road races.
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> All other categories, 3rd-5th days, road races- no crit and no TT.
> Amateur racers would be willing to travel and race.
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> *From:* biobiker at libero.it <biobiker at libero.it>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 1, 2024 1:37 PM
> *To:* nmveloracer at gmail.com; nmveloracer--- via Bike-racers <
> bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com>; Bike-racers <bike-racers at swcp.com>
> *Cc:* nmveloracer at gmail.com <SRS0+oIVy=KH=gmail.com=nmveloracer at swcp.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [NMCycling] 2024 Tour Of the Gila
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> Road racing was struggling in NM before COVID and the pandemic was just
> the nail in the coffin...but at least there was the Gila, now the new
> director of the race seems to be doing everything to kill the race as well.
> I understand that in the past few years the attendance was low and it was
> not sustainable to have 8 independent races (with all support etc. etc.)
> for amateurs, but I do not think that by eliminating categories and racing
> days the situation will improve. The Gila attracted racers for its
> challenges, 5 days for the top amateurs and 4 for the beginners, now who is
> going to drive across the country for a 3 day event, one TT on road bike
> (it's going to be awful and nobody will enjoy it), a crit and a road race?
>
> I suggested to combine 1-3 and 4-5, all ages and score them separately by
> age, but my suggestion was just dust in the wind...
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> I understand that the PRO race is the main event, but definitely it is not
> the event that bring money to the community. I am pretty sure that
> basically nobody will drive to Sliver City for watching a low level pro
> race. The amateurs have always been the big cash cow for the race, cutting
> racing days and cat1 racers and master A does not seem the solution
>
> Il 01/03/2024 10:32 MST nmveloracer--- via Bike-racers <
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> Bike Racers:
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>    -  Lots of changes in 2024:
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