Originally Posted by
dmotoguy
I have to disagree.. A local racer was a slow cat 4 one season, falling off the back on most races.. he went nuts with his training over the winter.. doing 20+ hour weeks the whole way through, training for cat 2 length races and intensities...
He SMOKED the early season 4/5 races, then killed the 3's, and is now on a team of mostly cat 1's for next season..
And for every case like that there's at least 10 riders who do the same and either:
-Burnout
-Overtrain
-Commit Suicide
-or-
-Still lose to the guy who did 10hrs of focused training every week