(Image credit: © The Traka) Growing pains is perhaps the polite way to say that not everyone was happy at The Traka gravel races. Complaints ranged but summarised in one word what the elite women making a living at gravel racing wanted was 'respect'. In just seven years, The Traka has grown to three days and four distances with 5,000 riders, plus another 15,000 people converging on Girona as supporters and spectators. In 2021, the Klassmark-owned races added The Traka 360 and saw 66 men and seven women compete. This year 1,121 riders were in the same event, 77% amateurs. It is the distance that most closely replicates Unbound Gravel 200 with distance, endurance and prestige. "The Pro men's race got stopped and Gerard [Freixes, race director and co-owner] asked the amateur men to ride back to the start line because they shouldn’t be here. Unfortunately many of these amateurs didn’t listen, which I call the ’small dick syndrome’. To me it seems like they just want to show off.…