Originally Posted by
waterrockets
FWIW: I train against this a couple times every training block. Heading out to do my ride with zero warmup. I've gone out of my driveway into a full-on 1' interval. I think it helps. One time I got to a crit later than planned (hectic at home), and didn't have time to get cash I needed later that busy day. I roll to the line, temp at 40F, with only a 25 yd coast to the line in my legs. Ref announces a first-lap cash prime. I got the prime and the cash I needed. Stayed off the front for another lap.
That's a good idea. I've been shelled when I didn't properly scout a road race stage and the first climb started about 5 min in and it was basically downhill to there. The next 68 miles were lonely.