Originally Posted by
TMonk
What happened? Was the start too fast? No warmup? Missed a clip in?
A lot of times in crit races it can be imperative to close gaps down like stat, esp. if you aren't confident in your ability to do a TT-style effort for minutes at a time at higher than the average speed w/o blowing up.
I blasted off the front at the gun and then basically everyone else (really small field) flew by me in tight group a half mile later and rather than immediately chase on (like I should have) I played it too conservative and that was pretty much it.