Hip Priest
Veteran
Hi Upstream.
I don't know how to say this without sound like a douche, but you recently posted a thread in which you said:
I'd say that was far too slow for you to be considering racing. A friend of mine races, and average speeds are normally above 25mph. Another friend recently completed a mountain TT (45 miles with 3500ft of climbing) at over 20mph, and he didn't win!
I'd advise you to join a club and work on getting quicker. I need to take my own advice and do the same.
I'm not being some sort of snob - I'd say I was too slow to race too!
I don't know how to say this without sound like a douche, but you recently posted a thread in which you said:
I regularly do rides of around 35 miles (with an average of around 1,100 feet of ascent) at 15.5 average speed. I'm happy with that but here lies my problem...No matter what I do, I seem to have hit a performance plateau and I can't seem to break that avg 15.5mph over 35 miles.
I'd say that was far too slow for you to be considering racing. A friend of mine races, and average speeds are normally above 25mph. Another friend recently completed a mountain TT (45 miles with 3500ft of climbing) at over 20mph, and he didn't win!
I'd advise you to join a club and work on getting quicker. I need to take my own advice and do the same.
I'm not being some sort of snob - I'd say I was too slow to race too!