Originally Posted by
Quinn8it
Love That Track!!!!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
I think bigger guys do flying 200s better on 333m as opposed to 250m. I set a PB (at the time) on Mavic Ellipse at TTown in training one day. I think climbing in the turns on a 250 affects bigger riders more. I know the dive out of turn 4 is really steep and fun, but I think it doesn't offset the energy burned up to that point.
Also, your coach told me that he never rode 200s on a 250 as well as he did on 333s.