Originally Posted by
gsteinb
Originally Posted by
carpediemracing
Riding only a bit, contemplating even shorter events (1 hour crit max).
were you doing longer stuff? I mean I long ago started focusing on stuff an hour or less. For me that means any discipline an hour or less, but I still had the snot to jump into a RR when things lined up that way. But it's not like there are a lot of 60+ minute crits for masters or most categories.
To me "longer" meant 25 miles or more. A lot of my races are 17 miles or something like that, so 45 minutes or even less.
I'm finding that even an hour race is a bit tough for me (55min + 5 laps at Tues Night), when I can even stay with the group.
When I say "short", I'm talking half a minute or so. Heh.
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