Questionable tactics

Oh.

What is a leadout in bike racing? What is a domestique? Bike racing is the prime example of sitting on someone until the sprint. Wheelsuckers.

Ever heard of Sit 'N Kick?

you're obviously not very good at bike racing

Sports are different. Te advantage of drafting in cycling is far, far greater than in running. Cycling is more of a team sport than track.

I should also note that in cycling it is considered poor form to sit on an opponent's wheel the entire time and then pass at the finish to win. It will come back to haunt the winner somewhere down the line.

In track, we call it WINNING.

Winning and not making the fast heat I call SELFISH and not team oriented. You guys all seemed to miss that. It was HIS OWN TEAM MATE that he refused to share the pace making with. It would have helped them both to make the fast heat.

The analogy in cycling is a guy is out on a break away; a team mate cannot chase him down. He can sit on the wheel of someone from another team and be brought up to the leader but cannot chase him down on his own.

HS Track question wrote:

Winning and not making the fast heat I call SELFISH and not team oriented. You guys all seemed to miss that. It was HIS OWN TEAM MATE that he refused to share the pace making with. It would have helped them both to make the fast heat.

The analogy in cycling is a guy is out on a break away; a team mate cannot chase him down. He can sit on the wheel of someone from another team and be brought up to the leader but cannot chase him down on his own.

If the two were teammates, then yeah, that's a pretty questionable thing to do. They should have been working together to get in a fast heat, and then just say every man for himself at the state meet.

If the runner he sat on were from a different team, then that's a different story.

Will the "fast heat" at state really make much of a difference?

OP, I'm sorry that your teammate outkicked you. He's a jerk.

lolroflcopter wrote:

If the two were teammates, then yeah, that's a pretty questionable thing to do. They should have been working together to get in a fast heat, and then just say every man for himself at the state meet.

If the runner he sat on were from a different team, then that's a different story.

I agree with this. On the other hand, in HS lots of runners don't have a very good sense of how fast they can or will run in a particular race, and trying to get 2 HS runners to coordinate pace is even harder.