KISS race today was a flat profile, but it's "D" only. I realize a fair number of riders that will be over the W/kg guidelines will ride, and worst case my results won't show up on the websites. That's fine with me. I've got some things I wanted to work on and get in a good workout.
The plan was to be more steady -- folks from the monster thread know I have a tendency to start real hard, then fade badly. Looks like I was 244W, 242W, 242W across the 3 laps today, so the overall goal of a more consistent output was achieved. Before the race I planned a large effort at the end of the first lap and the start of the second lap to jump to a faster group (on the assumption that the original group I was with would likely slow down over time). One sprint to get away, a couple minutes of hard effort, then another short sprint for final capture of the slightly faster group. Second lap was then uneventful. Nearly got dropped on the final lap as I was soft-pedaling a bit and not paying attention, but catching the group again wasn't too tough. Not terribly long later the group split. I let the smaller lead group get away a bit, but apparently not far enough. So when I hit the gas to catch them, all I did was pull the larger group up with me.
I didn't realize until just now that even though there wasn't a "C" category during sign-up, apparently if you've got your name set up correctly, it'll place you with the appropriate group. Ugh. I know for next time.
KISS EUR tomorrow.
. Also a piddly 65,000 miles total mileage
. I had to put a comma in the number it's that long
