Originally Posted by
caloso
Training advice I got years ago was that it doesn’t do you any good to have good 1 minute power if you’re not around at the end of the race.
Along these lines - I find the hardest part about racing is listening to all of the "Shoulda", "coulda", "woulda" from everyone who never really had a chance of being there when it counts anyway. As a long time team owner here's a rule of thumb: the fast ones that could have one but didn't are the quiet ones after the race. They're usually decompressing it all and re-thinking the race and aren't trying to demonstrate to a bunch of others that lost that they "lost better" than them all.