Another 3rd place at Portsmouth Crit | process goals for bike racing | on-bike footage & Power Data
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- Another fun Saturday morning at Mountbatten track for the OMEGA Portsmouth circuits number 07 - 4th category.
This one was interesting. A bigger field than the last two races (10 or 11 riders) for the 4th category and I was focusing primarily on process goals (thanks to the TrainerRoad forum for pointing me in the right direction) rather than obsessing about being up front / winning etc..
Made a conscious effort not to just sit on the front and instead conserve energy. Given the pace was quite slow at times, I surprisingly still hit my highest 30 minute power for this year (330w or 345w normalised). The headwind on the back two thirds of the circuit was a killer.
Didn't go hard enough or soon enough in the final sprint and paid the price, being beaten to the line by better riders. Well done to everyone who raced!
MASSIVE thanks to British Cycling for the special dispensation consent to use an on-the-bike camera to capture race footage. And as usual, big shout out to all the volunteers who make this series such a success for all involved.
Also thanks to the guys at DH Racing who provided some great extra finish line footage!
00:30 - Start
00:50 - Racing goals
01:37 - Trying a break
06:00 - Three laps to go
06:48 - Penultimate lap
07:36 - The Bell
08:14 - Bunch sprint
08:27 - Post race interviews
Copyright free music courtesy of TH-cam audio library
Electro Fight - Kwon
Housin - Yung Logos
How's It Supposed to Feel - NEFFEX
Great riding; great editing on the video (enjoy the insets). Next race ask the rider you intend to beat to wear the camera-so we can see your ride/bike.
Thanks Thom - I might see if I can add a rear view camera for future races!
Well done Dave! Great video.
Thanks David - good to see so many DH Racing riders out on the day!
Awesome! Well done you 👏🏻
I’ve never fancied Mountbatten but your video actually makes it look really good fun! (See BC- there’s vindication for allowing cameras right there 😉)
What resonates most with my Cat 4 experiences is that- you’re already making more than enough power, probably for Cat 2!
What changes is just where you apply it.
It would be easy to say when you should or shouldn’t be pulling and “wasting” energy (the benefit of hindsight and GoPro’s!) but you’re there to race, learn and have fun so who cares!
Cracking vid and result- thanks for sharing. Hopefully race together soon!
Andrew (Trainerroad)
Thanks for the encouragement, I enjoyed this one and hopefully a win will come along at some point :-)