Originally Posted by bigdraft
58vw said:
Almost no one can go into a Cat 5 crit here the first few times and stay with the pack unless they are quite strong in the first place.
Uh not to take you to task to much for some of the things you say, but that's just not true. A guy I know of raced his first ever mass start race at San Clemente last Sat. and he not only hung with the pack but finish top twenty.
Sorry I'm late to this discussion but had to chime in with an AHEM: My first Cat 5 crit I finished 10th. It was hard but not brutal. And I was 36 years old, nearly twice the age as the winner.