Originally Posted by
RChung
Congratulations on being fast. I can't out-sprint everyone in my group but I can out-sprint almost all of them, and I've never spent time in a gym lifting weights. I've never really thought much about it but now that you mention it, the one guy in my group who I can't consistently out-sprint doesn't lift either, and he smokes cigarettes (and sometimes, weed). My guess is that we can sprint at our advanced ages cuz we were born that way; though maybe it's cuz we choose to ride with slower guys. Though now I'm thinking maybe I should start to smoke ... though not cigarettes.
I think that's the secret sauce for excellence -- choose to ride with slower guys.
My sprinting power is quite mediocre, < 13 W/kg for 5 seconds. But it's enough to keep ahead of my old guy riding buddies.