Originally Posted by
spectastic
as a cat 2, you already have the opportunity to compete against the best of the best, unless you have the ego to rub shoulders with elevate, uhc, hincapie, etc in the p/1 (good ****ing luck man). other those aforementioned reasons I don't really see a good reason to be cat 1.
You're continually podiuming p/1/2 races as a 2...
Around here we typically have to travel to race with pros, though once in the while a ringer will show up, like the ex-pro/should-be current pro who won the Redlands stage at Oak Glen and yesterday won Stage 1 of Joe Martin who also won all three races in the local omnium two weekends ago.