So the other day on my local trail I shattered my PR by 3 minutes and 44 seconds by "chasing" a much more experienced rider. That's about a 10% decrease in time and my average speed went up by 1 mph. I was ecstatic!
My local trail is about 4-4.5 miles and when I am really trying it usually takes me ~35 minutes to complete. I've improved throughout the season but usually only beat my PR by 5-10 seconds at a time, never anything this substantial.
Rode it again today and even though it was leaf covered, damp, and very slippery I was only a few seconds away from my 2nd fastest time (which was set in much better conditions).
congrats, thats pretty nice, i had a 5% increase in 6 months which i thought it was ok.. what do you think helped, following better lines or just pressure to keep up?
Thanks! It was mostly the pressure to keep up that helped the most. Though watching how he tackled some of the obstacles also helped too, he wasn't really taking a different line than me, just handling the bike differently (if that makes sense).
I would have been more than happy to make that kind of improvement in several months, but doing it in just one ride was amazing.
This is one of two reasons that my PRs on trails I ride in competition are pretty much always from races, usually pretty far down the list of times.
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