FLCC> Tuesday night -- another awesome outing!

[Holly Monkman]

Daniel,

I know I haven't shown up at this year's training rides yet (still  
hoping to), but I might be the one person that doesn't mind going  
around that corner onto Coddington last.   I'm glad to hear that some  
folks might be tired from the effort to get to the corner first.   
I'll happily chase them down on the climb while I coast through the  
turn all by myself.  I like to think of this approach as my hill  
climb training interval.  I realize I won't win many Tuesday night  
races with this technique, but really, I'm out there to see a few  
familiar faces and to push myself harder than when I ride by myself.

I'm glad to hear that corners are neutral since last summer.  Keeping  
everyone safe is a priority.   Although, I'm sure I'll still sit up  
and come around last.

Hope to see everyone on an upcoming ride....

-Holly


On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Daniel Kidney wrote:

> 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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