Originally Posted by
Racer Ex
If you're sitting around till the end, you're doing it wrong. People with a poor sprint should be crawling along with their tongues on the ground in Offthebackistan in the last 500m of a race if it comes down to a field sprint. Otherwise you got a really poor training ride.
easy there
Originally Posted by
Racer Ex
You should be looking for other snails and getting them to go out on breaks with you.
Dammit son, do something.
You called?
Originally Posted by
climber7
i do realize that field sprints are just not a good situation for me, and until this weekend, i was actually trying to attack pretty much every race at some point, but i don't think i was strong enough or smart enough yet for it to work. i'm getting stronger and smarter, so i'm hoping to have some success with that eventually. but it seems to me that even if i'm going to try to avoid field sprints, i should still have some idea of what to do if i find myself in one.
personally, i'd sit it out by staying far far back as there are always people trying to sprint for 20th place...
then again, take my response fwiw. i was taken out in a sprint and lost five teeth, my fitness, a few grand, and some of my confidence in just a few seconds. Though most of that has since returned, there's no way i'm gonna find myself in a situation like that. If i'm feeling strong, i'll take a flyer a few miles before the line and treat it as a good VO2max interval, if not, i go to the back and wait for things to settle.