Originally Posted by Psimet2001

Yeah but we have seen this rotation between competitive and non-competitive before. The non-competitive events get large then the actual athletes in them start to get a little bitter about the fact that someone who looks like me just "achieved" the same thing that they did. It makes them go and look for ways to actually compete.

As for gravel - we already have people around here going, "eh...it's getting too serious now. People are like training for it." Waiting for the "roadies ruined gravel" shirts. We have them for cross.