Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
Did 5x3min at lunch and tried a bonus
#6 and that was a big nope.
Skipped the evening roadie group ride and met up afterwards for beers so I could do cross practice instead. Aired the tires out by 8psi and that felt a lot better. As to faster, I tried to zoom in to get my splits from my race to compare to the practice. The times overall seemed about 20 seconds better per lap. Even with some of those laps at a "tempo" pace not hammering the straights. I also did barriers until I didn't want to see another one for a while.
Looking up the winner of the 3/4 race who rides road with us sometimes, I did lose time in corners comparing to him. But not as much as I assumed. The bigger aha moment though was seeing how much the virtual gap grew on the fast/straight sections that weren't technical.
I was only like 16 to 18mph on those straights and he was 18 to 21mph. I felt too gassed to get it up that fast on the straight sections.
Still lots and lots to figure out. I think a goal would be to find 30 sec per 7:30 lap.
I'm in the same boat, trying to see what type of low hanging fruit there might be to shave off some seconds per lap. Power-wise I should be good enough to mix it up with the podium guys, and I'm not technically very sloppy, although perhaps too cautious, which might be why I never crash. I'm going to try lowering the psi to high 20's front and about 30 rear (from 30f/35r) for Sunday's race and see how that works out for me.