Losing interest in your local races.

[BlueJersey]

Is it just me? These local races are usually doing loops in a park. It was OK during the early seaon why you need racing miles under your legs. In the middle of season when you can race more longer, harder road races in another states, I am losing interesting in doing them. Usually, guys are better shape now and so the pace is really fast. 26mph+ for the 3/4s. Breaks do not stick. Attacks do not last long. It always ends in a bunch sprint. I am a climber with some decent sprinting ability. These races are also expensive. $30 for 30 miles. Is mad early as well. 6am-630am. I think these races are good for opening your legs the day before your bigger races.

 

[WarrenG]

Is it just me? These local races are usually doing loops in a park. It was OK during the early seaon why you need racing miles under your legs. In the middle of season when you can race more longer, harder road races in another states, I am losing interesting in doing them. Usually, guys are better shape now and so the pace is really fast. 26mph+ for the 3/4s. Breaks do not stick. Attacks do not last long. It always ends in a bunch sprint. I am a climber with some decent sprinting ability. These races are also expensive. $30 for 30 miles. Is mad early as well. 6am-630am. I think these races are good for opening your legs the day before your bigger races.

$30 for a training session? Those get to be rather boring and routine, like large group training rides, and maybe less safe than your training could be. Just use them as part of your training if the efforts match your objectives. Don't think of them as a race with an outcome that matters at all. You can still do the final sprint, but just think of it as practice and training for the races that actually matter (to you). It's not always a good thing to do these races/rides because of added stress, mostly mental but also physical.

Perhaps your training and mental focus would be improved if you only did 2-3 races (out of the area) per month. The races wouldn't get in the way of your training and you could mentally focus only on races that matter to you.