Back to racing this weekend. Super short race, just 14.5km flat out trying to smash each other until someone drops off the group, average of 39.5kmh, most of it was over 40 with some slower tactical bits.
Only went and bloody won our grade! Finished in a sprint, was about 4th back off to one side with most guys on my left. Stayed in the saddle, had two guys in front in a line, hung onto them, the second guy went right so they were side by side. Sat behind the first guy on the left in his slipstream for a moment, wasn't sure if to go between them or to the left. Went left and span as fast as my legs could go, won by less than half a wheel on the line!
Did 63kmh for about 150m on Strava, was spinning out the gear I was in. No idea if I had more gears left, the only downside of SRAM, if I had been in the 11 and gone for another gear, it would have down shifted me into the 12 and I'd have been screwed.
Looking on Strava/gear calculator based off my cadence and speed I was only in the 12 or 13 on the back so did have gears to go, I was doing a cadence of over 120