I screwed up. Made a mistake, okay way more than one but one in particular. Well the first was starting intervals last week. Instead of august, or april. But that wasn't the big one I realized. Second really might have been riding the logs instead of running them, my running isn't so terrible that it would have cost me to get off the bike. Might have even saved my legs a touch. Should have probably run it. But no the big mistake was the first two laps or so on day 2.
I sat in. Everyone talked about a "pacing course," "don't blow up early." Well, hey cool. Pacing myself meant that when I was sitting there on G-rides wheel I just sat there instead of going around. It was easy(ish) to sit there and ride around for a few laps. We piled into the pack there at the 180 down/up off the bat and just motored around on the conga line. Going hard but not so hard as to blow up meant i spotted everyone a good handful of seconds that may have prevented me from getting lapped. I was going to blow up anyway on that course, and i could have gone harder in the beginning and given myself some more cushion before the inevitable. Oh well. Learn and move on.
Like Bedford. I had a good start and I went with the leaders and got a solid position. Sure I slid back a bit but I started my slide way farther forward and really only went harder in the sprint than i did anywhere else around the course. So yeah. I screwed up, surprise. Maybe I need a coach. No not a trainer (but I probably need on of those too). A coach to give me a game plan for the race. Someone who knows how I ride and can help me focus on not sucking so much. granted I'm uncoachable, and too cheap to hire someone. Heck I should probably hire that skinny white dude coach with the flat brim to get me going faster. But #1 he'll call me fat, and #2 probably want me to get some sort of power meter. #2 aint' happening. Then again a coach working with me would kill their program "look he can't even make that big GeWilli dude fast, he must really suck as a coach/trainer."
Yeah - so anyway.
Enough about my performance in VT. But hey - my crossresult.com numbers are uncanny. Last year day one when I had a hooooooorible day (rolled tubular, blah, lapped by EVERYONE, blah blah) i got the same points as day 1 this year. But i had a better race (sort of - ie didn't get lapped). But then day two (harder/faster field) this year i did better.by a good bit. The fields were smaller this year, mostly fewer slower guys I'm guessing? Doesn't matter.
Time to move on. Seriously one of these years I'll actually really start training before the season "starts." Or maybe not.
Heddwch
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pace yourself? really? i think if you're going to be one of the guys who actually gets to set the pace then that may apply.. i'll never know.. riding from where we're riding it's balls to the wall from the whistle.. if you blow up, then you blow up. we don't have the luxury of "pacing ourselves". don't overthink it. i know half the field is faster than me. i just crush myself to try to hang with them. on a good day i hang with some faster guys than the ones i ride with on the bad days. doesn't require much thought.
good point Kevin, good point.
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