[QUOTE=Fastfwd]But I definitely want to be fit enough to finish before last.QUOTE]
If everyone thought this way, there would be one guy in the race. Everyone else would progressively drop out as the person behind them quit because they didn't want to be last.
LA got shelled in his first pro race, finished DFL a half hour behind everybody, in the rain.
Somone is last in every race, if your afraid it might be you and that concerns you to the point of not doing the race becuase of it, don't think about racing, you don't have the right mentality for it anyhow.