No matter what discipline of cycling you participate in, your overall enjoyment and performance can be improved if you head into them with a prepared plan of action.
Be it having ridden the event before and using old data or riding a completely new event and needing some guidance on how to maximise your strengths and minimise your weaknesses, a pre event plan can help you get more out of the event.
Setting specific goals and targets gives you more direction in your riding and helps you achieve something in every ride.
An honest appraisal of how you feel you did, where you could improve and what your strengths are can be used in conjunction with your training program to give a complete end to end training package.