How fortuitous this thread came up. I have a big race this Saturday. There are 4 guys, including me, that are easily ahead of everybody else, but I always come in behind the top 3, and there are two guys who try to hang with us for awhile but they always drop. I really want to win this race but if I got out in front I'm afraid I'll die. Do you have any tips?
Honestly your only option is to go out in the back of the lead pack. You don't necessarily need to be with them the entire race, but stay in contact. Never, ever let them get more than ~25m ahead of you. On paper it sounds like a great plan to let them go out fast and catch them with 600m to go, but that's incredibly difficult if not impossible.
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