How Did I Get Dropped? | Chasing Pink | Spiral Into The Volcano
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024
- 25km into this race and I was feeling strong, I marked and helped instigate an attack, riding off the front with Cat A.
But suddenly, I was swamped from behind and it felt like I couldn't get any draft. I was left fighting and surging for position until it was all too late.
Poor luck or bad timing?
Owch! Good effort. Probably a case where those first couple of efforts through the banner and following Louis cost you at the end there. That whole stretch was pain! I was holding position half way down the group dreading the rise out of the ocean. The group splintered again through the gravel too!
I've watched this back a few times now. I think losing Stephan's wheel as we entered the tunnel cost me too much speed, and then I just got swamped by one rider after another coming over the top of me. I fought back for pack position and was too gassed to carry on chasing when we came out of the ramp.
@@stevej_on_a_mtb Have you considered - at times of maximum stress - just riding at your TT power output? I find when this happens that a few people come over me but I slowly accelerate in whatever draft is available and eventually slot in to line *without* the leg-crushing metabolic cost of the vo2/lactic surges so that once I'm in line I can actually stay there. Sometimes it means I miss a split as I've just got my head down so to speak, but it means that I'm not fully dropped. Those surges just look vicious and sub-optimal me, nothing I know about exercise science / human physiology predicts your power graph is the proper way to stay in a group...
@@MikeHardyiest yep I think its a good observation. At first I was feeling strong so went with the initial attack. I then panicked as those riders came over the top and I began fighting to regain pack position. You can see it becomes more and more unstable as I oscillate between surging and recovery.
Your suggestion of riding at TT power was what was needed here, I need to learn to relax more and hold a stable power. At the time, I thought I might be able to weather the storm by forcing the power, but the push lasted a lot longer than I was expecting.