For me I can live with a short course assuming other things are managed well - sometimes you just can't make it happen.

But when you factor in the drafting and lack of rule enforcement the short distance just is salt in the wound especially given the out and back course.

i think a lot of it is that ppl are bitching that last years records stand and this years don't even though they were both short courses.

Also a lot of the drafting seems to be just a mass of humanity, what can you do when everyone is bunched up leaving town, I'm not slowing doen to let ppl pass me so i don't get called for drafting. A lot of the drafting is legit too. Oh well that's IM