Originally Posted by
sarals
I had some, well, surprising news earlier this week.
I'm in the top tier of all female athletes in my age range, per the treadmill test.
Not surprised. In age/gender/terrain appropriate races you're banging on the podium, even though you're tasked with racing against the people who set those tier parameters.
Originally Posted by
sarals
I'm much more fit than I suspected, and I thank Ex for that. Now I have to go out and make him proud!
You already have. Lest we forget when we started out you were getting blown out the back of W4 crits in a few laps and your idea of training was to go out and kill yourself every ride. You've made a few tiny improvements since then