Apr 8, 09:55 PM by Steve | Crit Practice Videos
Posted in Cycling & Video
The videos from last night’s crit practice are slowly uploading to Vimeo. I don’t have any sophisticated video editing software yet, so I am uploading the whole thing. To spare everyone wading through an hour long video, I broke it into 4 parts. Power and speed recorded with Quarq and Garmin Edge 705, displayed with DashWare.
Warmup laps before crit practice. It was supposed to be a somewhat organized 2×2 paceline but it kind of devolved, especially when more riders started to show up who weren’t “briefed” about what was going on at the beginning.
First batch of laps of crit practice after warmup, starting from when we first saw the lap cards. Coming around the end of that lap I was moving up to attack when Ken started moving up too, so I hopped on his wheel and he launched me. I attacked again on lap 9, with a 900W jump, but quickly blew up.
This clip starts with me nearly getting taken out after the first corner. It wasn’t really that close because I saw it developing, but you really had to be on guard with so many different skill levels present.
Things heated up near the end. Ken attacked and got a good gap but was eventually pulled back. Coming into the sprint I was close to the front but not close enough. Watch for Ken to shoot up the side and weave through the group to front. I don’t think he beat Ben to the line but he carried a lot of speed and was still really moving when he got to the corner.
