Problem with marking uber strong riders is that they're uber strong. I've gotten shelled off of leadout trains just moving to the front of the field, forget about making any moves (i.e. my teammates shelled me, not other folks' trains). I can try and mark Paul Curley or Pat Gellineau or some other regulars (gstein?) but the problem is that they're really strong so they can sit in the wind for those 5 or 15 seconds regularly. I can't do that - for a long time my goal was to see less than 60 seconds of wind before the sprint because any time I saw 30 seconds in a row in the wind I was off the back. They talk about matches? I had one match for many years. I'd use it in the sprint because it was the only way I could win or place.

I have to admit that as Pat G gets closer to 60 (57 last year?) I can think about beating him and I have. But until 52 or 53 years old he could still destroy me. Paul C is tougher to beat.