I was in the middle of that crash at the beginning of the race. I landed on a guy's front wheel and now my left hand is broken in two places. After eight weeks my hand muscles have atrophied. I'm just now getting back on the bike outdoors a little bit. It goes to show that even at 10 MPH you can still be harmed in a crash. Jeff, thank you for these videos and for all of your race analysis. They are very inspirational. :)
My fault trying to pull in that early break, We should have sat in for longer and allowed Logan to rest. There was no chance it was going to stick. Great racing with you, Good luck in the future!
@@nealm6764 No way, he wasn’t even on the yellow paint at that point, Also a tiny amount of rear wheel slip isn’t going to send you careening into other riders. Watch the clip again very closely. The guy fails to clip in his left foot, then *thinks* he successfully clipped in, but actually didn’t. When he tries to put the power down, his foot slips off the pedal. What’s also funny is the guy he crashes into came VERY close to crashing moments earlier (overlapping wheels.)
What an awesome series. It's great to see his development, but also show a different perspective on crit racing; especially for people that are looking to get into it. For instance, you can see and learn from what Logan has achieved so far, and how he did it. Without any context, and combined with current marketing it, sometimes it really feels like you need at least a $4k bike to get to a somewhat competitive level. Maybe the tiny bits such as 4:00 are the moments that make the series even greater and bring perspective into the progress; there's a guy with a Dogma F12 right behind his alu allez with what? Claris? Factor in the hours Logan has put into his training and there's a great story throughout the series. Not saying anyone could just do it, but it's refreshing to see! Thanks for the series, it's quite helpful. To the both of you: keep it up!
If everyone is taking a corner poorly, is it a good idea to be in the top 3 for that corner every time so that you don't get stuck behind a ton of people?
Yes. If you know you are better technically, stay at the front so you can dictate the lines and force the weaker riders to spend energy catching on. The same goes if you know you can follow attacks and ride in the breakaway, you need to stay somewhat at the front to be part of the race that your fitness and/or power profile allows you to
I went from 187lbs in the beginning of May to 160lbs as of last week. Minimal sugar and starchy carbs and no booze. My compact chainrings went from helpful to a bit too easy. Either going to hunt down a set of mid-compacts or an 11 tooth on the rear or both
@@ianbent0n Thank Ian! Did keto strictly for 9-10 weeks. I was dehydrated on it though even though I was drinking a s-ton of water with and without electrolytes and was getting muscle cramps. Went off keto @ 168 and 2 weeks later was 160. I just don't eat junk anymore and that was a lot of extra calories.
@@cpk313 I've done it in the past too and lost the exact same weight you did in the exact same amount of time. Pretty crazy. It's a miracle diet if you have the discipline to really do it. Surprised about the dehydration and muscle cramps, never heard that about keto.
my name is also Logan, and I also went from couch to crit this year. thanks for all the tips, inspiration, and info! this series has been awesome. Thanks so much!
thanks for the tips and the inspiration Jeff and Logan! I went from riding century rides in the summer for the past 7 yrs to structured training last December about when Logan started. Went from FTP of 245 to 318 (and climbing) with structured training, lost 40 lbs, and now I have my first race this Saturday. The early episode on nutrition was a game changer, it made all those tough trainer workouts, Zwift race efforts, and proper recovery possible.
Great series, it will be nice to see what happens next for Logan and NorCal Cycling. Id put in for it, but yall dont want to see a 56 yo..."and here is grandpa bringing up the rear!!" haha, be safe.
watched in slow mo: a few times: shoe stays clipped, chain stays in big ring. only thing i can see is he stands to mash and pulls back HARD on the right hood. and takes all the pressure off the left?
i gotta say YMMV with those power numbers and results depending on where you race. im sure others can attest that 4/5 fields will have crits with burly 300W FTP dudes with 1200W sprints after an hour of racing. and hilly races with 4.5W/kg FTP dudes. yeah race skills can help but only to a point.
Interesting that the bodybuilder won. I know cycling is geared towards the lighter riders, but some of the bodybuilders and rugby players I ride with are seriously good riders. Keep them away from too many hills and they just pull along like a diesel engine and the lighter riders really struggle. I guess the sheer watts will shine through in certain circumstances. Make me wonder if we should be going for hulk like legs and doing some lower body bodybuilding workouts during the winter.
Well done Logan. With a few more of Jeff's brains in you you'll do really well. Dropping wheels at pretty near every corner hurt you and then you had to recover some speed by belting out some higher watts. Better lines through corners is probably the single thing that will make a big difference to your performances imho.
I really enjoyed this series. It was really insightful and really entertaining. Congratulations Logan and I wish you and the family all the best! Well done on your cycling accomplishments too. That's some seriously hard work to be very proud of! 💪🏻🖤
I’m a cross country runner and I’m 17 I’d fly down for a video where you help me join my first race? 😂 I just have a mountain bike that I ride around on the weekends.
How do athletes handle crashes at such events? If someone has destroyed your brand new Dogma - is he in charge of repair, or it's like "bad luck" and you handle it by yourself? Tnx
It’s your job to protect your front wheel in a race. If your bike gets broken, look at it as an opportunity to upgrade what broke. If you can’t afford to risk a fancy carbon-unobtanium bike, there’s a lot of very capable lower cost racing machines on the market, like the Allez the featured athlete in this race was riding.
I thought I was the only one who's averaging 170-ish when putting in effort. I guess it only go down in due time. It kind'a scared me when I was reaching 190s and then going 180s for a long period of time.
Same all over the world, including my country. Gotta, er, love those Cat 5s: all that delirious enthusiasm and raucous bike-handling skills. Everyone's gotta start somewhere. Here's to you Cat 5s! We salute you (but not too near you lol) 😁
Not really sure why Logan’s heart rate is staying so high!! When the watts came down his hr should also. He could try to manage that by going to a bigger gear and slowing his cadence. If I were in that race my hr would be in the 160’s but I am older. What do you think??
probably staying in the group - it sucks when yo yo effect takes place, but doing the work by yourself is way too inefficient, positioning is so important in a group so you don't slow down too much cornering
11:27 - I’m sorry, but I would have torn down that annoying banner for messing up the cornering. “Red Bull wants you to go fast and safe…except when we’re advertising.” Grumble.
That's a Cat5 chain skip crash! He won't do that again - the mental and physical scars will haunt him. Big respect for trying but he needs to practice safely - esp clipping in.
mountain bike crits are way harder, your only chance to pass is on sort sections of dirt road, then you hit the single track and it is simply not possible and of course they're so tired from the explosive dirt road sprints that its ads to the difficulty. Usually the race is won or lost in the first 10 seconds. Point to point races are better but there's no such thing as teamwork, there's no drafting. Mass starts are chaotic AF for the first 90 seconds of the race then whoever winds up in front usually wins, also cutthroat AF. The frenchies will cut you off and crash you in a heartbeat without giving it a second thought
