First race

Okay so saturday was my first criterium race at Murrarie. To be honest I was nervous: I've never done this sort of race before as I'm more suited to long endurance efforts or time trials from my triathlon background, but my training has been quite specific to crits lately so I was relatively confident, especially when they put me in c grade for my first race, and there were some old buggers in the group. But boy could they pull!!!!!!!!!!!!
The race was for 40mins + 3 laps, with sprint prize half way at 20mins.

The pace was quick, real quick, and I just wasn't used to that type of racing. My heartrate was in the 190's, and I thought I was gonna die. so tactically I had to learn to hold back in the group to recover, which I did. Nevertheless, the last lap came around and I stuffed up tactically! I was in 2nd place, so doing all the pulling for the group, and when the first slight uphill hit the fresher blokes zoomed past and I got dropped off the back!!! I managed to pull back the gap and not finish last, but it was a painful and rude awakening. I've got some work to do.

But it was fun, and awesome training. We covered 31.1km in approx 46mins, so our average speed was 37.2km/hr, but we hit 48km/hr.

For that time period I was below my lactate/anaerobic threshold for only 6mins, and above for 42!!!!!!! So it burnt. My avg HR was 187, but I hit my max of 199 at least once. I burnt 899calories!!!!!!