Geronimo wrote:
I agree with this. I don't care about pacelines at all, that feels fair. It seems silly to be mad about it, and yet different really silly things DO bother me for some reason. A guy beat me on a 10 minute climb recently by 8ish seconds. His comments on the ride are always something like, "just taking it easy out there today, surprised to grab a few KOMs along the way!" And I'm sitting there looking at his 30 mile ride in which he averaged 150 watts, but averaged like 400 watts over those three segments just SO ANNOYED that he's pretending like he wasn't gunning for them. As if anything matters!
There's a guy in my area who does something similar this. He'll ride out like 20 miles from his starting point to the local hill in my town at a very leisurely pace, HAMMER up this ~4% hill which is like a 3:00-4:00-ish minute climb depending on your fitness, then another leisurely 20-mile spin back home. Seems like a lot of time to invest in doing a single hill "repeat". He's pretty fast on the hill but his PR is nowhere near the KOM (there's a lot of good cyclists around here) so I don't understand why he rides like this.