Originally Posted by
shovelhd
Your sphere is way, way, way too big. You place yourself split between two riders, but your draft rider is too far up the road to get any benefit. Your cornering is not tight and efficient, as you seem timid going in and coming out. Nice job avoiding the downed rider. Nice course. I would spend some time on your next group rides and practice crits on reducing your sphere and cornering with more authority.
Thanks for the feedback, Shovelhd. I understand the "sphere" comments well enough (obviously not well enough to have fixed it yet, but enough to understand the problem), but I'm not as sure what I need to be doing differently with respect to the cornering. How would my corners look differently if I was "cornering with authority?" Sorry if I'm being dense, but I really would like to improve this before my next road season, and the clearer sense I have of what I need to do differently, the more likely I am to pull it off.