Time to ressurect the thread

Today I did two sprints under two different conditions.

The first time, I set myself up as if I had a leadout, and started the sprint from 27mph. I reached 37.4mph. The second sprint, I started with no "leadout", from an easy 21mph, and reached 32.5; it probably would have been higher, but my chain was skipping off the cog teeth when I started sprinting.

The first sprint I suppose would be more indicitive of what I'm really capable of doing, since there in fact was no leadout. But it did leave me wiped. After the second sprint, I was able to sit down and go at 25 until I reached an intersection 2.5 miles ahead.

So I guess what I discovered is, dont use your max effort sprint in the middle of a race, wait until the end

Edit: and I suppose a sprint that isn't "max effort" is good for accelerating, as you can hold a higher speed then you could before afterwards, and it appears "easy" in comparison.