Originally Posted by brianappleby

best thread I've read in a while. Thanks for everyone for weighing in on this, especially CDR. I have no sprint, and have won a few races (cat 4 and 5, and 1 podium in Cat 3) on long breakaways in groups that always end up as just 2 of us, and I end up attacking near the end or winning the sprint against a guy who's even worse at sprinting than me.

The problem with this is that it gets you marked. In Cat 3 races, people know who you are, and they don't let you off the front when they know it worked the week (or season) before. My method has shifted from "crafty escape" to "overpowering domination", which of course, hasn't worked that well yet.