Race Report: 2025 Bariani Road Race - Men’s P/1/2

Race: Bariani Road Race - Men’s P/1/2

Date: 3/16/25

AVRT Racers: Henry Mallon, Nathan Martin, Max Rye, Leo Minami, Cam O’Reilly, Devin Wilson, J Evans, Flo Costa

Top Result: Nathan 6th

Nutrition: 2 900ml bottles with ~150g of carbs each, 1 ~600 ml bottles with ~90g of carbs each

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/13902176343

Recap (written by Nathan): 

Bariani is always a fun race, it’s flat and wind usually plays a factor. This year was no different, with LOTS of wind forecast. Wind coming from the south, ticking up to about 15 mph near the end, which meant the top part of the race was going to be echelon-city.

First lap a bit of jostling, not too much wind yet, nothing serious went.

Second lap the wind was picking up a bit, so on the top section of the course me, Devin, and Flo really tried to do some rotating and gutter the field. We started to really string things out, but still early in the race so didn’t split the field or anything yet.

Just after the start of the third lap, a few strong guys like Cody Berta and Alex Akins went off the front, and I rolled with them. We were joined by one or two others, and Voler were basically the only team left who had to chase.

We quickly got a large gap, and it sounds like Voler wasn’t able to muster much of a chase after a lap, so we were the break of the day.

Sadly I was probably doing too much work, I shouldn’t have been working with some good sprinters I knew I couldn’t beat in the finale, and we had some good finishers, so that was a pretty big mistake from me.

Basically the remaining 2.5h of the race I rotated through, and in the last 30 mins I completely cracked and blew up, dropping myself from the group. I ended up being caught at the finish line by 1 or 2 from the main field to finish 6th on the day.

Overall, I needed to do way less work in the break. I thought my legs would have held up considering I did some similar work at Snelling, but oh well. Fun day out!