there's a common school of thought that people are not willing to share.

For those that aren't part of the Wattage-Geek community, most power-trained athletes would rather lend you their own mothers for a few nights then let you see their WKO files, particularly those from a race with sustained and max efforts.

the union acknowledges the uphill struggle that awaits it.  if people hoard data, how likely is it that they'll share anything more substantial with others.  the lessons of collectivism applies to all things.  in that spirit, i offer the following: 

sggreenbelt_5_3_2006.csv (79.02 KB)

for what it's worth, i got smoked in this race mostly because i did not ride it very intelligently.  there were one or two solid attacks in the first few laps.  i got caught out several times behind groups of cyclists who were racing passively and could not get around them to follow attacks; ended up spending a lot of gas trying to get across.  i might very well have done better by marking several specific cyclists but i don't find that sort of racing fun so i tend not to do it.  but that would have been better than what evolved: i ended up spending a lot of the race doing what i like least which is chasing.  the lead to the break was steady for a while 15sec, 20sec, 23 sec, and then doubled over a single lap and it was all over.  with about three to go, the people in the pack were just watching each other.  that was sort of ridiculous since the race pays nothing and the top five positions were all up the road. 

the chasing and bridging was hopefully good training for poolesville.  we'll find out shortly.

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