wow, I'm really popular at the moment lol glad it produced some discussion. I'm definitely in the camp of ctl not equaling race fitness, or moreso, it depends. Of course, with the training I've been doing I'm marginally race fit, and have rediscovered that road racing doesn't really fit into my life at the moment, so I had kind of set aside all the build stuff and any road race specific training I had been doing and just setting my calendar for the fondo in July, gravel event in August, and CX season. I'd love to do training crits as time permits, but otherwise I have no real focus on road/crit stuff at the moment