Poor quality screenshots of ibike data collection during CCCC crit = must get fitter

OK, I'm not that fit right now. I was really fit in 1987, but that seems to have worn off already. Who would have thought? So this is 2009, I'm reliably told, and here's an almost 52 year old trying to get race fit in CCCC 'D grade' at the Lucca Rd crits, North Wyong (once more, with feeling). BTW, it's not a closed circuit, we give way to traffic, follow the road rules, have a marshall and signs as per our plan agreed by the NSW Police. No 'furious riding' here, folks. But it all went horribly wrong. Maybe I was off-colour, but no excuses - I made 2 big mistakes. Drifting to the back of the bunch (after keeping to the front 3 riders for a few laps) at exactly the wrong time, and not doing enough interval training beforehand. Oh well. The smaller mistakes include not warming up well enough, doing too much early work either setting the pace or bridging gaps and just generally not conserving my momentum when I should have. Actually they were big mistakes too. All that in my 2nd race back from a 7 month break. Isn't race data wonderful, even in D-grade?

Oh yeah, I use an ibike to collect the data. I also must take my screenshots at higher quality. Been testing the 'Greenshot' tool. Nevermind, next time!

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