I really like this statement from Linda Jackson: “When I’m 80 or 90 years old, am I going to remember some I.P.O. or M. & A. deal? No, I’m going to remember the Olympics,” she said. “I’m trying to help these women have the same chance.”

It should be heard by so many recreational riders on internet forums. Fostering competition between total strangers for total miles ridden per year is just incomprehensible to me. When I'm 80 or 90, I'm sure not going to look back and fondly remember a year when I rode X miles, but I sure will remember the special events or epic rides or people I rode with. And I'll remember those people who encouraged me to attempt those events.

With their education and non-racing career experience, it would also be interesting to compare post-racing lives between the men and the women - stable careers and domestic partnerships, drug use, health, etc.