Not a MTB’er, but I found last year that during periods of lots of crit racing and time trials I definitely LOST fitness. A lot of (more motivated) athletes will do their crit warmup, do the race, and then go for more intervals or a longer endurance ride afterwards to keep their training stress high enough… Same with TT’s, they warm up, do the race, then do an extra 90 mins afterwards.
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