After being in the sprints and listening about what happened, say at POC, it makes me think, why wait till 200m to open the road. This may be a pointless email, because its probably due to permits for road use and what the county is willing to give.

But if thats not the case, opening the road up at 500 or 700m would seem to help aliviate a lot of the problem that occur at the sprint. The problem with waiting till 200m is: everyone is bunched up and antsy, fighting for position, but unable to move because a single lane of a road is too narrow for any sort of organization to occur in what essentially becomes a cluster f#3k. Pardon my French, i could not figure out another word to express that.

Having a little more road to work with would probably help to cut down the recent issues of crossing the yellow line too early and the elbowing and the cursin at each other. We all know what its like waiting for that 200m line. Its choatic. If there were a little more space, things would work more smoothly. Granted things will still happen, but having more road to work with, such as the pros get, would just help things to go more smoothly.

That is, if this is not a restriction of permits from the county in which the race is in.

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