Originally Posted by
patentcad
Somebody up front was dropping the hammer, hard. We go over the top of the crest, the paceline is starting to gap me. ****. I dig down deeper, my shovel hits an anaerobic rock. There's not much left there. As we passed the Harley Davidson dealer, when I looked down at my speedo I was going 39.7 mph, I was just about spun out in a 53 x 11, I was getting friggin gapped (at almost 40mph) and.. I....had...NOTHIN'!!! Shelled @ mile 48 on a 50 miler.
There's nothing quite like feeling completely spun out and watching the field slip away.
Post-shelling analysis for me has always proven that I chose too high of a gear to react to the acceleration in that situation. YMMV.