Originally Posted by Hipcycler
Here's what I learned today:
1. My biggest flaw in cornering appears to be not looking THROUGH the turn. When I DO that, it seems I execute a must smoother turn there.
4. ... This, to me, translates into one thing on race day....warm up plenty and go out there and hit it....hit it hard from the start. It's only 15 minutes!
I think both of these comments (in particular) are spot on.
Your body goes where your eyes look, so looking through the turn to where you want to go is a good thing. In the race look at the open space you want to go into, rather than focusing on the obstacle you're trying to avoid.
And as for warm up, your race will be hard from the gun. So warm up hard building up to a few short, maximal, efforts. If you've gone all out a couple of times in the warm up, its much easier the first time you go ballistic in the race.