Agree. Road tris still call me. For example, I was seriously considering doing the Ugly Dog gravel tri that Dan did last year. It's three hours away from my house and is being held on a Saturday. I'd probably have signed up by yesterday to get the lowest entry fee, but the road tri that I've done for at least 15 years is the next day. It's three hours away from the Ugly Dog site and is held at a state park a couple miles from where I grew up. I could do both, of course, but decided racing on gravel isn't worth the extra travel and costs when I have the special (for me) road tri the next day.

OTOH, I'll eagerly jump into a draft legal gravel tri that appears on the Ohio schedule this year and doesn't conflict with the road tris that I've regularly done the past three decades.

A new tri that I was really looking forward to next summer was advertised several times by the RD, but they didn't go through with the event because of road availability issues. It was a broken 70.3 in Vermilion, OH, a picturesque small town on Lake Erie. The distance was to be divided into three separate tris with the second and third tris starting 2:15 after the previous one. I haven't done a HIM in a decade but was ready to do this one with the rest breaks. :)

The races I'm really looking forward to this year: MaxiRace France and nats in Cleveland.

Happy new year!