FLCC> Tuesday night -- another awesome outing!

[Daniel Kidney]

Due to the unusually dry weather for April I've been off the computer and at
work... I have the good fortune of working on a barn in this beautiful
weather and we've been taking advantage of every bit of good weather we can;
global climate change works for me!
Following a pattern, I'll second all of Don's emotions about the ride. I can
add that in my sprint group... I led ineffectively, also lacking in any
renown for my skills in the field. I did my best, again, to lead by bad
examples and then explain how poorly I had just executed things. My crew
caught on very quickly. Ruth, as previously mentioned, sprinted very
quickly.
Domenic, a few more comments on that corner: my strategy has always been to
get to the front because I'm not particularly good at cornering and I don't
want to be in the middle of things. So what can you gather from this? Both
those who are good at cornering and bad at cornering want to be at the front
for a corner; who wants to be at the back? The people who are alright at
cornering? No, nobody wants to be at the back, unless they're dead tired or
otherwise uninterested in doing well in the race. This is why it is so hard
to make corners neutral. I always try to get up to the front well and in
advance, getting a little tired out at the front for coming through the
corner first is worth it for me. Of course, consider that almost everyone
tries to get to the front well in advance; sooner or later you won't be
there when the corner comes, and you just have to do your best to be neither
cause nor fodder in a pile up (which rarely happen, despite that fact that
the majority of people actually are not at the front going into the corner).
The goal is that the high intensity racing triggered by the upcoming corner
come to a calm neutral as we go through the corner (during which people like
me who have made an effort to be at the front and then subsequently hope to
get away on the little hill are discouraged from riding away from the group
until the whole group I was with at the beginning of the turn has made it
through).
Well, once again, great group all, thanks for a good ride. I won't be seeing
you next week as I'll be riding down to into Pennsylvania to visit a college
I might be attending this fall. Have a good ride!
Daniel
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