Originally Posted by
ethman
Were you there yesterday? I was riding in the 4/5 and 4/5 30+. It's strange how much harder the 30+ race is then the 4/5. Feels more like a cat 4 race whereas the 4/5 feels just like a cat 5 race. The last race I did there in August there was a huge split in the field in the +30 race. It started as a breakaway but then grew to about 11 guys. The rest of the field didn't even bother chasing. I had hoped that breaks like this were the norm out there. You'll see them in all the other higher cat fields (like you mentioned).
Were you in the break? Anyway, I initiated that break, at least I'd like to think I did. What happened was I saw a bunch of guys going for the prime, I saw that I had no chance to win, but that we had opened up a big gap on the field. I figured now was as good of time as any to initiate the break so I yelled at all the guys to go for it and surprisingly they did. First time I've ever seen a somewhat organized break in a 4, 4/5 or 5 race. Just depends on who shows up I guess and how motivated the field is. I think since august's race was a smaller field, we pulled most of the stronger guys from the main peleton and so the rest of the field didn't have the motivation/engine to chase us down.