Race Tactics 101

A big part of bike racing is attacking. Successful attacks help you avoid crappy race results like these. The key element of a successful attack is timing. You have to wait until the correct moment. The problem is, sometimes a shrewd opponent will sense your impending attack, and launch a "defensive attack" of his (or her???) own. Once this is done, you are basically fucked. Sure, you can launch a counterattack/chase, but what fun is that? Besides, it would have to be A LOT better than your opponents attack for it to work at that time. Your best bet in this case is to sit back and wait for a better time to launch your own attack. Patience. Thanks for reading.

Note: I shrunk the size of the image because today, after playing the todcast on conventional proprietary commercial software (i.e. Quicktime), I found that Ctodd is yet another one who has gone commercial and is trying to make money off the fans of his blog. I feel so dirty, so used... life was better yesterday when I just yanked his video off the server and watched it (commercial free) with mplayer.