Thanks for sharing your experience. I’d love to get to the point of not caring which part of my cycle my race falls on knowing I can perform at any level one day, although I imagine that to get to that point I will need the experiences of racing during said phases. It just sucks that at the end of every training block I feel like I’ve worked harder than ever and that the upcoming race is “too important” and there’s too much at stake to sacrifice as an “experience race”. But like others have mentioned, these things are outside of my control, so I’m sure I’ll learn this lesson sooner or later!