Above is a screen shot from a crit I entered in but didn't finish because, like a genius, I thought I could tail-gun from the back and still make it to the finish. Doh! Course was more technical than I thought due to the size of the field and the stringent enforcement of the yellow line rule which required an almost standstill march through the corners unless you were one of the first 10 riders.
Each one of those high torque, sprinting out of the corners efforts over 700w (some as high as a 1000w+) was a nail in my coffin...only lasted about 20mins of the 50min crit...
Lesson learned: do this only when you WANT TO GET DROPPED! LOL!
edit: for those that want to know -
1000w+ 9x
900w+ 12x
800w+ 8x
700w+ 5x
Can you say "ouch". Good training is only good thing to take away from this race...