As the snow starts to clear and the snowmelt forces you to clean your bike every day, it's time to start thinking about racing. True, your goal event might be months off, but races are popping up on the calendar over the next few weeks.
By and large, these early season races are billed as "training races" — a good excuse to get out and get in the bunch again. Sometimes they're laid-back efforts, sometimes they're soul-crushers.
But are they worth it? Can you get the same effort on a hard group ride, and without the travel expense and entry fee? Have they become a mainstay of the early season race schedule for you?
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Seriously what makes a training race a training race. Is it low entry fees and low prize list. If you put big money prize up at a race in Feb. people arent gonna call it training race. One persons training race is another persons goal race. It is just an excuse so people dont feel bad for not having any early season form.
Posted by: steve | February 16, 2011 at 03:16 PM
"It is just an excuse so people dont feel bad for not having any early season form."
This IS why it's called a training race - so that promoters can get those not even ready to race, to come race.
Posted by: Rugg | February 16, 2011 at 07:00 PM