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Originally Posted by rageeumr
I don't personally know anyone who does it, but I see it all the time on forums like Slowtwitch. I'm not a legit cyclist, I just do it because I enjoy triathlon. So I'm used to trying to maintain a constant wattage. Dead sprints in the middle of a ride totally screw me up.
The ride where I set that KOM was right after my fall A race. I was done seriously training for the year, but still in good shape. This segment was right by my house and the conditions were perfect for it (pretty strong tailwind) so I went for it. I went max effort over the segment, and it killed the rest of my ride. It was only ~20 miles, but I totally limped home.
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Too many "legit" cyclists take that kind of stuff waaaay too seriously.
I hadn't been doing much of anything competitively for years until I moved out here and started doing triathlons (I'd spent the prior decade plus in Utah and Colorado, so I was all about mountain biking). I moved out of it to focus on riding after a couple of years because I realized I didn't like running that much and I ended up HATING open-water mass starts. I could earn decent results on the strength of my cycling and the adequacy of my running, but I'm a slow ass swimmer. When you've got 40 year old dudes grabbing your ankles, elbowing and swimming over you so they can place 19th in their age group instead of 22nd, that shit loses it's novelty. I ended up loving training for tri (especially the swimming), but hating the swim and just tolerating the run during events.
As bad as some triathletes are about competitiveness and gear-snobbery, a lot of "legit" cyclists are about 5 times worse.