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.