Originally Posted by MDcatV
OK - I posted this to try and learn from the experience of others.
Riding people off wheels in early stages of a crit with lots of wind, yeah, that was less than wise, but was just a tester for the legs. It was a training race afterall.
Chasing - we weren't chasing at all. I understand that when a teammate is in a break, options are to:
1- sit in the field
2 - try to bridge to add horsepower to the break, without bringing the field with us
3 - get a ride across with another, again to add horsepower to the break
4 - race negatively and block
As we were trying options 2 and 3, I'm not sure what we did was counter productive. Please expound on what we should have done to make this a more productive effort.
IMHO in the first 15 and last 15 minuts of any flat criterium any kinf of breakaway attempts are suicidal becasue in the begginning everyone is fresh and at the end everyone is alert.
set your computer to 18 minutes times from the start and do all attempts after that mark.
if you still in the pack 5 laps to go, just sit in top 10 and prepare leadout for your sprinter!
and 90% of all breakaways in flat criteriums get caught in cat 5-3 so why bother? good leadout for your sprinter has most chances of working.