To kick off our FQSC season, McGill Cycling will thunder-up north-east of here to the beautiful city of Contrecoeur to participate in the FQSC’s annual road race. I’ll post more details later, I just wanted to get the initial post out ASAP so that I could obtain an early estimate of rider interest.
Until then,
Cheers!
Dhruv
100% in
Can drive 3 bikes + 5 people
Racing with another team, but looking for a ride. Can chip in for gas.
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Ok, this should be my first race! If I come I’ll have a car and can give ride to 1-2 persons and 1-2 bikes (I don’t have a bike rack so the bikes must go inside the car…).
I am still a bit confused about the licenses and I think I am getting a day license on place (Independent) and signing in for the Masters B category (that is a category of a higher age group then mine but I understand that I should sign in there if I am not sure of being competitive enough for Masters A). Please let me know if you have any advice on this…
@Pavel, If you’re anywhere near as strong as you were last fall, you can definitely handle Masters A. Especially these first races which are flat and windy. On the other hand, if you don’t have any/much experience racing, it’s probably not a good idea. It’s better to sit in the peloton and learn the dynamics first, and once you win one or two, you can move up 
If things go well, you might even think of racing sr. 1 later on.
Positioning is especially important for these first races (Contrecoeur, Ste-Martine), especially the first two-three laps. There is usually a large attendance, and it’s flat and windy. Until half the peloton has been dropped - because half of them will get dropped, if you’re near the back, you might not even realize it, but you might be in a group of 15 that’s getting shed because there’s a gap 10 riders up in a massive head wind while the guys at the front are working hard… So try and line up early and make sure you’re aware of what’s going on in front. Try and stay in the top third until things settle down a bit.
Also, the crappy thing with the masters now racing as masters is that masters A-B usually go waaaay earlier…
I’m bothered that you’re not using standard deviations to measure confidence in attending
Fixed. I even accounted for the fact that confidence in attendance varies wildly if people are bordering on not going (i.e. someone 99.9% in will have less error in their estimate than someone who is 30% in)
What I meant was
[quote=PeteW]What I meant was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule[/quote]
But what would you define as the mean in this scenario? Taking the average of the current sign-ups is meaningless, and even if it was important, would have to be recalculated every time a rider chances his/her mind
Keith, which cat are you racing?
Haha, you’re overcomplicating it, Dhruv. I was trying to show that confidence is normally expressed in terms of sigma (DavidF back me up here). So, in the example of confidence in attending a race weekend, the categories would be a) 68%, b) 95%, and c) 99.7%
All this to say that I spend too much time lurking on this forum.
And also, watch your significant figures Dhruv.
Oh, now I get what you’re trying to say, Pete!
But we’re not a normal group of riders now are we? 
[quote=MikeB]Keith, which cat are you racing?
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Is there a seniors category?
There are the following categories:
Senior 1-2 (open - strongest pack, requires experience)
Senior 3 (19-29 or something - usually race with juniors)
Masters A/1 (30-39 - second strongest pack really)
Masters B/2 (40-49 + 30-39 if you’re not fit enough to race in Masters A)
Masters C/3 …
So Trevor, you’d probably want to go Senior 3 (roughly equivalent to cat 3-4-5 in the States).
i think he meant seniors >85+, with a discounted bus pass… funny joke, big boy.
pick me up from the boonies plx
I was hoping «couer» had the same meaning as necking in english but alas it seems to not be the case…