Originally Posted by bikesandcode

I have a funny feeling we race the same series/level (won't be there tomorrow though)... Anyhow, I won two weeks ago with an attack from the bell, so about 1.3km out. I went from about 4th wheel and basically did a full out sprint for 20ish seconds until I got around corner 2 then just tucked and gave everything for the next minute and a half or so. It (I think) worked mainly because the pack was going pretty slowly at the time and given the hesitation to follow I was able to get a pretty big gap really quickly.

On the make it look stupid part: I did consciously drill it just before the bell started ringing. Theorized that it might have added a fraction of a second of hesitation due to "Oh look, he's sprinting a lap early, ha."

Pretty sure that was the most painful thing I've ever done on a bike though. Another 50m and I would have fallen off the bike I think.