Had my first race! Lol, well if you can call it that.
I ride this loop and was doing these sorts of intervals at certain points. I was just pedaling easy getting ready to hit the next interval hard and this guy was kind of next to me going easy too. So, I “hit it” and started pedaling hard and getting speed and I hear him behind me like he was pedaling hard too.
So, I got too the hill part of the interval and just as I get to the top, there he is beside my going as hard was he can, lol.
He passed me just at the end of the interval and I could see he was spent. I was too but of course I had to pass him now!
It was hilarious because I’m not even very fast but what was cool is that I pushed myself much sooner after the interval than I ordinarily would have.
I can really see what people mean when they say it’s totally different riding with someone/others to push each other.