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I actually ran the first round in Chile and transfer stages times were not demanding if you had an average fitness and of course it was much easier for the pros. In my personal opinion I would have preferred to be tougher. If there is the chance I think in some occasions transfer stages should grind down the performance of your special stages, otherwise how can you test the fitness of the rider? Is not suppose to be a complete mountain bike competition? Maybe for some that are less lucky and only can race one enduro during the year this theme can be very important and critical. But if we speak of a race calendar like the EWS. It is a good idea to have very different kind of Enduros. Probably insert though enduro races between some easy ones. Really EWS did a awesome job regarding this. There was a lot of variety in all the races they had. Even they had complete races were all transfer stages were lift shuttle. But really all this depends of the geography of each place. I mean we cannot sentence: "You can't run an enduro in this place even if it has awesome downhills for special stages because you don't have a lift and that makes really thought to reach the top of the track" ... I like enduro races because it is pure mountain bike. It remembers me when I used to ride with my friends when I was kid. We didn't care if what we were doing was XC, DH, walking, climbing or falling. Sometimes we had time to speak, other times we were so exhausted that we didin't have time to speak. In resume we cannot parameterize mountain bike. Sometimes you just do all-day long dh runs with lift or car shuttle. Other days you just want to climb to the top of a innaccesible mountain to find a new dh line. The fact that you can have this in a race format is magic!!! Enduro races should come as they are now. Sometimes demanding, sometimes relaxing.