gplama wrote:
> Bleve Wrote:
> >
> > > :ducks and covers:
> > You remember where the Bright sign is?
>
> yeah, about 10m before where it needed to be... damn it!
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Sprinting is as much about timing and position as it is speed and
acceleration. I led you out, remember? You had Jaywoo forcing me out
into the wind so I couldn't draft Flinty despite my managing to get him
on the front with about the right distance to go, and as we were on a
friendly I couldn't just chop him (Jaywoo) into the gutter (tempting
though it was! he wasn't asserting the position he was in with much
authority. I shouldn't have let him get there in the first place, but I
underestimated your teamwork). By rights you should have taken the
points. There's tricks to sprinting when trapped on the front though,
but they don't often work, the odds are rather stacked. In the case of
being caught as an unwilling leadout, one trick is to not go 100% if
you don't have a gap, and to save your kick for when you can see that
your wheelsucker is out in the wind. I was lucky you weren't paying
attention
Besides, you won KoM by a mile, it's very difficult to be
good at both and you don't race regularly enough against determined and
cunning sprinters to be really good at it. yet ...
Yes, I'm encouraging you to race more! I think you should .. you're
strong as an ox and climb like a Basque on EPO or a yank on someone
else's blood, you just need to learn more race smarts. Tours like
Coleraine and De Bortoli would suit you perfectly.