Originally Posted by
Radish_legs
. Any suggestions on best strategy for bridging effort to break? They had 6 guys or so working together, and it was reasonably windy, about 12mph.
For me, as fast as I can. If you did all that and the break was still at 15 secs, the gap was too big.
I know that a 10-15 second gap is bridgeable (most of the time) within 45-75 secs if I'm on form. If it's anymore than that, or I can't bridge in less than 90 secs, I know I'm not going to bridge. Last year I did 600 watts for over a minute to bridge a 15 or so second gap to the winning break and that was for sure about my absolute maximum. Took a good 15 minutes dying in the break before I recovered.
If you're actually good at time trials and stuff, you may have better luck doing it another way. For me, it's got to be completely explosive and near-immediate or I'll never get across.