1hr + laps?
surista
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Thanks for the replies to my earlier thread on beginner racing in London - I now have another newbie question - I'd always thought of races as being over a fixed distance and/or a fixed number of laps, but what kind of race would a '1hr + laps' race be?
TIA!
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TIA!
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That would be a criterium, which is a circuit race traditionally run on a time + laps basis, I also think that cyclocross races are run the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterium'Hello to Jason Isaacs'0 -
Txs for the reply - it still wasn't making a lot of sense, but you pointed me to the Wiki crit page, and from there I eventually found an explanation that made sense to this newbie:
http://www.bicyclefrenzy.com/255/what-is-a-criterium/
I now recall seeing these in NY - for those of you that live on the UWS of Manhattan, I lived at 125th and Riverside, and I recall seeing races in March when I was there - turns out this was the Grant's Tomb Criterium. I remember thinking it looked rather terrifying given the speeds people were taking corners at...0 -
They're good fun...!
Just stay near the front and try an hold your speed through the corners to save you from repeatedly accelerating."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson0