Senior Age Group Racing

[velogirl]

diz, it's really a chicken and the egg proposition. there just aren't enough masters racers to justify masters fields in most areas. even here in northern california (the largest racing population in the US), we rarely see masters racing with the exception of the occasional 35+ field.

heck! in most parts of the US, women are still fighting to get separate category racing.

for safety reasons, promoters can only have so many racers on a given course at the same time. this limits the number of fields they can run in a given day.

where you will see masters womens' racing is in mountain biking and multi-sport.

[Eden]

Even the men don't get a lot of master's categories until you get to the national championship races (they do it by 5 year increments there, for both men and women).

Men usually get A/B's and C/D's or 1 combined masters field, depending on the race. The fields work similarly to the women's, where higher cat men at 45+ can race down a category (and they sometimes have D's, where any guy, any cat 50+ can race, but I don't think I've ever seen a separate D's field - even at the state races they race with the C's and are scored separately)