I haven’t seen this question being asked, but I think the workout survey should be reworded for races. I just came back from a crit race, and I answered the workout survey truthfully: the race was an all out effort (I got a new HR max PR), and then the survey responded as if this were a workout, it asked me whether the race was “too intense”, etc.
I don’t think “all out” and “too intense” are synonymous. If you road all out but completed the event without blowing up, I think moderate or maybe hard would be more accurate.
I see what you are saying, but I couldn’t have gone much harder during the race. Going e. g. very hard during a race is not a bad thing. For your A race you might want to go all out.