I went into this race over confident. I had ridden the course a few times and new it was "easy", with not much climbing and relatively smooth. Of course it was easy for everyone. My wife and kids were out of town that weekend, so I stupidly rode the day before at a pretty good clip (not the best idea in hindsight). I figured there wouldn't be too many heavy hitters at the local race anyway so why not?
It was pretty warm maybe mid-nineties. Had a huge field. I went out fairly hot, was in the top 3 or so and just burned out in the last 1/3 of the race. 2 or 3 guys passed me and I couldn't hold on. You could see I lost 2 mins on each lap. Pretty disappointed in the performance, but the upside is it wasn't in the "big" series and I took away some hard learned lessons.
Stats: 5th of 31, 17.25 miles, 90 mins, avg speed 11.5, avg HR 168, max HR 179, bike XTC
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