Originally Posted by
Cleave
ericm979, I hate you.
What's funny is that cat 1 guys who can out-climb me while doing one legged drills are jealous of my light weight. What they really want is their power with my weight but that's not how it works. If you're built like an Ethiopian marathon runner like I am, you don't get much power. But I'm tall so I have a lot of frontal area and therefore drag.
The same way that some riders fear hills, I fear long flat stretches with headwinds.