Crunching Race Registration Numbers

I had a little downtime working today waiting for stuff like this:

Mind Numbing Computer Stuff

While I was waiting around, I went to my goto time wasting fallback and started surfing the web.  Somehow I made it back to the P2P roster again and took a closer look at who will be riding in September.  After a few seconds of looking, I noticed most of the entrants are from Utah, not a really big surprise.  My inter-geek prodded me to take a quick sensus of how many from each state made it in.

Drum roll.........

      # STATE
      1 GA
      1 ME
      1 MO
      1 MT
      1 VT
      1 WI
      2 WA
      3 AZ
      3 MN
      3 NV
     10 WY
     14 CA
     18 ID
     29 CO
    233 UT

I'm not sure if this means everyone in Utah had faster computers or if most of the race interest is still centered in Utah and neighboring states.  Geographically speaking it makes sense.  It is clear that few from the mid west or  east coast want to travel out west for the event (fine with me), or did they just have slow computers and fingers?

For comparison, here is the breakdown from the 2010 Leadville Trail 100:

      # LOCATION

      1 AUS
      1 AUT
      1 CHL
      1 DEU
      1 DNK
      1 ESP
      1 HKG
      1 ITA
      1 ND
      1 NOR
      1 POL
      1 Ramon
      1 RI
      1 the
      2 BEL
      2 NLD
      2 NZL
      3 CHE
      3 COL
      3 ME
      3 SD
      3 VT
      3 ZAF
      4 AK
      4 DC
      4 KY
      4 MS
      6 BRA
      6 CRI
      6 HI
      6 MT
      6 NH
      7 MEX
      7 WY
      9 SC
     10 KS
     10 OK
     11 GBR
     11 LA
     11 NJ
     12 AR
     12 IN
     13 CT
     13 IA
     14 MO
     14 OR
     15 AL
     15 WI
     17 TN
     18 ID
     18 MI
     19 MD
     19 NE
     19 NV
     19 OH
     20 PA
     23 GA
     26 VA
     27 MA
     27 WA
     28 CAN
     28 NY
     30 NC
     32 NM
     33 IL
     36 FL
     52 AZ
     59 MN
     78 TX
     92 UT
    136 CA
    434 CO

Again it looks like the home state takes the majority of the race slots.

Conclusion?  *Most* people don't like to drive long distance to race.  This research should no doubt put me in the running for the next Nobel Peace Prize.