Lap 1: Ride 90% of the lap in 12-14th spot, and then crash spectacularly on the icy pavement. Record slowest lap time of the day.
Lap 2: Ride with twisted bars and a bent derailleur hanger to the pit, drop back to some place in the 30's, record second slowest lap of the day.
Lap 3: Try not to quit.
Lap 4: Accept that I'm not going to die, that I can still pedal with my broken shoe, stop letting people just ride by me, and start racing. Record my second fastest lap of the day.
Laps 5-9: Try to have fun and go fast, start catching people back and slowly moving up.
Lap 10: Ride like I had planned on riding the 9 previous laps. Figure the lines out, start caring, start pedaling hard, and record my fastest lap of the day.
Compare to:
Lap
Lead
Lap Tm
Gap
Diff
Speed
1
1
6:59.397
00.000
00.000
20.191
2
2
6:52.140
07.257
07.257
20.534
3
3
6:44.653
07.487
14.744
20.941
4
4
6:39.001
05.652
20.396
21.203
5
5
6:46.005
-07.004
13.392
20.837
6
6
6:47.906
-01.901
11.491
20.786
7
7
6:43.506
04.400
15.891
20.993
8
8
6:41.317
02.189
18.080
21.097
9
9
6:45.284
-03.967
14.113
20.889
10
10
6:35.103
10.181
24.294
21.418
Chips aren't so bad when you can get this kind of data. I dig it. It's really interesting to compare different riders and see what kind of lap times people were pulling at certain times.
Comments
I still would have been losing 10-15 second/lap to the front guys, though, even if I rode 6:30 laps all day long. So there's that.