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and i'm the opposite: I put in fucking huge hours on the bike, spent my time off the bike looking into all kinds of aero gains, etc and then I get my arse handed to me as soon as an actual fast person turns up. No amount of training offsets genetics unless you're talking about skill sports like snooker or archery where you could feasibly train more than the next guy to win.
hippy
Absolutely. Does my head in that commercial coaches charge parents loads of money for training plans with talk of them "making it" if they follow the plan etc. It's clear very quickly whether someone has the genetics.
And that also applies to psychology. I'm OK at racing a bike and was pretty decent as a kid but I hate training (same as revising etc) so I knew I would never make it no matter what my physiology was.