I’ll be racing the Virginia State Track Championships for the first time next Saturday. The event is run as a 3 event omnium -a sprint time trial, an endurance time trial, and a points race (in my case a 1k tt, a 3k pursuit, and the mass start points race), and for the past few weeks, I’ve been training for those specific events.
First, let me say that those short time trials are among the most painful moments I’ve spent on a bike, despite their being over in a few minutes. What I find interesting, though, is that despite their short length, pacing plays as vital a role in them as any longer tt. For the 3k perhaps that’s not that surprising, but for the 1k, an effort that lasts, at most, 90″, I thought conventional wisdom said to jump hard and hang on for dear life, but for me at least, that doesn’t work as witnessed by the first graph below.
