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I fancy doing a bit of XC racing this summer for a laugh.
Do I get pummelled in masters or reasonable finish in Open?
Are other options available for 30 somethings?
I hold a BC licence anyway (for dabbling in a bit of roadie stuff locally).
I've even got some lycra
depends how early you want to get up...
open cat isa dream for me as travelling 1/2 round the m35 and getting to a venue by 10am on a sunday morning was a bit of a hassle...
If i was you i'd do open it's more laid back, masters is very fast 😮
Masters is very fast at the sharp end, but tapers off very quickly.
Open is not so fast at the sharp end (but still filled with trophy-hunting-ringers) and still tapers off very quickly!
You're not gonna be last in either, just do whichever suits you better on start times and stuff!
masters are just elites who've had more years to train, thus making them even faster 😉
maybne try the open cat for the first race or so to get the hang of everything, then move up if you reckon you can take 'em 😀
Masters is very hard. I tend to just go by how difficult it'll be to make the start time, or how many laps it is 🙂
I rode a couple of Masters races last year. By getting one year older I then had to ride more laps and everyone was faster than in the senior cats. It hurt. If I race in the future, I will be doing open.
Unless of course you're thinking of a Gorrick event where there's a Super Master for all the ex-elites to go to 🙂
Master more laps than senior? That's weird.
is this for S(cottish)XC races*? some of the categories are a bit different up here.
open category replaced the over 16 fun (or novice) class of previous years and generally do two laps. the change of cateogry name might attract a slightly different entry.
masters normally sees good fields with a range of abilities (waves from the back of the field) and generally do four laps. some of the faster masters will race with the Elite/Expert race. can make it as serious as you want to.
* um, might have guessed wrongly on this. still, worth the effort to come north and race the best XC courses in the UK... 🙂
Sounds like it's the Open for me, not Masters.
Did the Open race at the Dragon last week, managed a respectable finish, the bloke in 1st would have done OK in Experts.
I would have finished about a demoralising 21 out of 22 finishers in Masters had I entered that cat (and 4 laps would prob have killed me).
Roll on Vets next year... or is that even harder?
The winning masters times at nps are usually faster than the expert times
for a laugh? er.. wouldn't that be what the Fun category's for then? (it's also cheapest)
aint gonna get it easy in the vets,you should lok at their lap times,lot faster than open and its 4 laps as well