Originally Posted by
Chris O
Thanks all, I'll do some more races. We have a local weekly Tuesday night series so I plan on doing some more of those in July and August. The experience was valuable in that I was focusing on short intervals during training, but now I realize at this point I need to do longer ones to be able to maintain 20-25 mph for prolonged periods to keep up with the pack.
FWIW, I never pay attention to speed when I'm in a race, and I don't look at it after the face either. You go the speed you go to hang in there. I think you'd be wasting time to focus on training at a certain speed, unless maybe you're motorpacing.