L&C Prospect Park Bike Race - Men's 3/4 - August 17th 2024

Here is my strava post:   / strava  

About me & this race: I'm 170lbs. Starting Field of 57 riders. 9 laps. My FTP is somewhere between 260 and 280. The average speed for this race was 26mph. My Weighted Average Power was 239. This was my second 3/4 race and my first race with sprint & KOM competitions.

Although I'm off whatever peak i hit in April when I got my first podium, I don't think that fitness is my problem. I think my problem is mental resilience. I need to believe in myself and I need to embrace pain more readily. I feel like I could have pushed myself harder than I did in this race.

With that said - I do think that I let up a bit after I got cut off at 01:06:43 - it felt a lot worse at the time than it looks here on the video. I got caught up in a crash the last time I got hit with an aggressive move like that...so...yeah. It is painful to watch myself fall back like that after working to get up.

This is essentially the end of the race season for me. There are a few more races over the next 2 weeks, but i'm going to be out of town for all of them. Such is life. Onward to offseason training. I got 44th out of 57.