Heathpack 

The interesting thing going into an all-my-eggs-are-in-this-basket race is that you spend a little time thinking, 'what is really the goal here?'.


For me, the goal is to become as good as possible at this TT thing.


So ultimately that translates into: win-or-lose, any individual race is ultimately part of the overall experience of cracking the TT nut.


And that includes figuring out what you don't know. Maybe in some ways, figuring out what you don't know is the most important part of the process. Once you know that, then you start to see what you need to do to improve.


There's a thread right now in the training forum about a guy training to "get faster" by improving his FTP. I need to find the energy to write up a response that increasing FTP is honestly just a small part of "getting faster". There's way more to it than that. Increasing FTP is way too simplistic of a goal.