From Brooke Miller on Team Tibco (emphasis mine)
I have not done an in lab fitness test in years… not since I first started riding. I have been resistant too. I have been doing fitness tests on the bike instead and always hate them. They are really hard for me… yes… they are supposed to be hard… but for me, it is not just the physical hurt of it, it is also the ego. The thing that is funny about me as a rider is that I don’t put up any particularly impressive numbers. My LT is not that high, I doubt that my VO2 max will raise any eye brows… hell! Even my max sprint power is not going to go on my headstone or down in history. What makes me a strong cyclist is not the numbers- you have to put out decent enough numbers to be physically competitive- but in sprints, it is not just about the numbers, it is about your head and how you race the finish. I am not the fastest. Not the strongest. I can’t control that. I can be the fastest that I can be. I can be the strongest that I can be. But I cannot control if I am THE strongest or THE fastest. But I CAN control how hard I train and my mental game. Anyway- so I am going to go in and get tested as a training point. I am going to see where I am today so that I can have better training as I go forward into tomorrow. I have to put my ego in check, strap on a breathing mask and hammer. Lets see what my body can do.
