2024 Early Birds #2, Men’s 1-2-3

“Race”: Early Bird Crit 2, Men’s 1-2-3

Date: 1/14/2024

AVRT racers: Andrea Cloarec

Course: The course is a 1km square loop and is closed to traffic. Good pavement. Botts’ Dots down the middle. Four right turns.

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/10515399603

Nutrition: Bottles with electrolytes and Maple syrup in (around 60-80g per bottle)

Event recap: Warning - Early birds are a TRAINING Race. Winning or beating someone doesn’t mean anything. Everyone comes here with different objective…
For this second week of the early bird, I arrived with slightly more fatigue, so I wanted to be more conservative, trying to save energy.
And when this happens, racing without being aggressive at the front, you cannot decide how the race will go. Quick enough, I missed the good break, that formed after 10 minutes. I was hoping that the peloton would catch it. It didn’t, and I didn’t help to catch them.

So it was just 45min relax in the peloton. I avoided the huge crash that happens around 45min mark, at least I’m happy for that.

I still wanted to go for the field sprint for training, however I didn’t get the good line, got “boxed” before the last turn. Once again I should have been more aggressive in my position to hope for anything.
Still a good training for crit racing, and a reminder on how to race.

Andrea