Originally Posted by
carpediemracing
3s - moderately high pace under pressure (30-ish), less off time (0.5 laps of 15). Avg HR 169, ap 201 (np 235), avg speed 27.0. This at Somerville, should be the hardest or second hardest race I'll do (Harlem Crit is the other one). I was totally done at 400m to go and didn't sprint.
damn, that's too bad. i was gonna give you a killer lead out, as promised
in all seriousness though, while i can probably hang with the cat 4's and did become the sandbagger (or king of the D's) in collegiate D's after just four races this past collegiate season, i'm still six races short of that cat 4 upgrade as of now
. now it looks like i won't even be at the race as i will need to accompany my aunt who's visiting from the old country
Originally Posted by
carpediemracing
Feathering brakes is fine - I do it all the time. But if you can coast, poke yourself out in the wind a bit, you'll slow down dramatically, even if you're not "big". One of the tricks to becoming better at drafting is to avoid using brakes for feathering. Start balancing "air braking" and actual braking.
CDR, could you explain what you mean by better? I actually drift out to slow down (or sit up) and used to find it harder to just feather a brake.