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You see so many people wasting the van draft when off the front
That's me!! 😉
DrP
EDIT - well, not any more from today, obvs...!
If you have someone drafting you using it then it is often nice to give them a 'hand' by dropping behind them :D.
I have been using it wrong as well. I would go to the front and then use it thinking I was helping everyone out or try and use it for a break! Thanks for the lesson!
Once moving plenty of the flatter races last series felt like elastic band was on already.
Oddly it's always seemed the group split much more readily when we were supposed to be forming up then when you were actually trying to break it up.
Stream for tonight should be here:
I see @paino has done a short warmup for tonight with the Mega Pretzel...
Seems neither more nor less sensible than doing it at any other time robbo.
Umm, yeah. Best use of an all day ‘Teams’ meeting ever. Couldn’t tell you a word of what was being said. The main thing was I didn’t have to put the camera on.
Think I may have ruined any chance I had of a decent finish tonight, so if anyone wants wants a distinctively average wheel to ride on, feel free.
Edit-I think I may be last. Is there a wooden spoon option?
You see so many people wasting the van draft when off the front
I assumed that was because the rest of the group saw the powerup being used, so immediately eased off to force the drafter out in front. I now see they were not quite so mean as I thought.
I'm currently debating what way to play things with Zwift itself tonight.
It seems as though when running on Android my 10th gear (the only one i'll use on this course) is a bit more spinny than 10th on Ant+. That can at times have benefits or downsides... However, Ant+ gives me a HRM as well which i can't have on Android... Which sometimes is a good thing, sometimes a bad one !
I have my heart rate on, but never look at it or worry about it, I'll know if I've gone too fast for too long by my breathing 😉
The breathing thing is a weird one, sometimes i can settle in at 170+bpm and feel OK, sometimes i can struggle a bit at 165.... I'll be trying to focus on getting 168 if i go with the HRM. But that little 3% drag after the underpass often kills me. That's where i really need to focus my attention on with you, Robbo etc. I'll be able to sit on the flat mostly, but them little bits, i need to dig deep if i'm to stay in the melting pot.
Well, I thought the draft boost question was a stupid one, but evidently not, given how many other people were using it incorrectly....erm, just like my friend...
Don't look at my heart rate at all as it doesn't seem to relate to my pain level. However, if I forget to take my Garmin instinct off and race, it has a fit and thinks I have an abnormal heartrate
The truck thing I'd been using wrong too, mostly seem to get an empty circle though. Always want a feather.
That prob explains why you thought I was bluffing last week weeksy. I dropped behind you when you had a draft as I thought it would help then when it finished I went in front and used mine - so basically I wasted both of our drafts when I thought that was the best tactic! Shame you can’t get burritos in meet ups.
Lol Zilog for the win tonight! I've just been looking at handicap
Hey Weeksy, I'll pace you up the underpass if you pull me around the flat! This isn't my parcours tonight (not sure what is?). Juts hope it doesn't turn into an ITT.
Ghost would be pretty cool in meetups as well.
Ghost would be pretty cool in meetups as well.
Letting your laptop battery go flat is apparently a good approximation.
I’ll pace you up the underpass if you pull me around the flat!
I'm hoping my Zwift race skills will help me, the only time I'm hitting the front is when I've made a mistake. I'll be hiding as much as possible
Letting your laptop battery go flat is apparently a good approximation.
Internet dropouts do it as well :D.
Wtrl series is in London tonight - hope the servers are stable! We are in meet-up only view so shouldn’t affect us too much. Will be busy in there though!
the last few days on zwift have been pretty poor actually - I did a solo ride in 'open world' and people were dropping in and out like crazy! 2 min on my own for a bit..then busy again.
One dude got understandably angry in the comments and left a group ride!
Hope it holds out.
DrP - getting bloody nervous again!
There's already 27,000 people on there. I'll try and get on in good time to save any disaster's.
Almost 30k now!
Sadly going to have to miss tonight's event. Moved house over the weekend and still trying to find everything. Also not got any internet yet 😟. Have fun and happy racing.
Well that didnt last long. Drop outs, so dropped out.
Justgot in from work & watching
looks like phil's had the same - or he's fallen off
SHame jamesoz, you've some power as I remember
Damn you Zwift - how hard is to have a button that says 'join this ride that I see you are going to, that is starting in 15 mins'.
Riding around hoping its going to appear, then 15 mins of logging in/out, restart, go/don't go, made to the event with 3 mins to go (all warmup time gone), managed to ride the go wave, yay, but then dumped out after 15 mins.
I hope Veloton eat all their lunch.
nixie 20 sec off the front and going hard. Paino doing a lot of pulling in the chase group of 5 - either feeling very strong or shortly to be mugged
LOL - 1st attempted robbery as I typed that !
now that's weird, watching a sprint finish without being able to see the line 🙂
Finally started fast enough! I like the flat
That was horrendous. Well done John K and guys in front group. Tried to bridge over to you but just couldn’t make it, got to two seconds but no way could I continue.
Sorry @w00dster I upped the pace at that point and left you in no man's land as I didn't want the second group to come back with you.
That was quality tonight. Got a 12 watt increase to my ftp too
Managed to hold on to some Cs all the way round so happy with that.
Also seem to have developed a medium sized lake under the turbo. Ew...
That was guuuud.... in a type 2 fun kinda way! Pretty much dead on ftp for the hour.. looking at the stats my hr was 178 for 80% of the race.. going to 182 for the last portion....
Good strong effort from Nixie and the breakaway gang!
I tried a sprint with 400m to go... I should learn I can only manage about 300m of proper sprint! Doh!
12th overall across line... will see where handicaps put me...
DrP
@scaredypants I was amazed to even be in that group at all given the earlier warm up 🤣. Damage limitation to Nixie if anything!
How did the sprint go? I know I was top after lap 2, but that Lager boy has got legs till the last lap??
Oh, and massive thanks to @yanboss for pulling me back to the lead group on 2 occasions when I missed the split!
Cheers to @slowpuncheur for dragging me around the last 7km, I could have give up at any moment, but kept getting some kind of 2nd wind!
I just about managed to hold on to what I think was the 3rd group on the road. The difference in speed between the group I was clinging on to and those who didn't quite hold the wheel was huge - there was no way you could pull that back.
I crossed the line at the back of the strung out group but with nothing else left in the legs. No thoughts of tactics or anything tonight, cling on for grim death and cling on tighter on the rises was as much as I could do.
A hard race for me. Glad I managed to stay in the group near the back. Thanks to the rest of the group for helping out 👍👍
You won the sprint @paino (unless someone at the back threw down a huge dig in the last lap), well done.
If Id got a powerup I would have tried again last lap, but didn't fancy it bare - first two laps took their toll.
ITT for me after a couple of drop outs in the first km think it was my end though. I couldn't find the usb extension cable so the dongle was at the laptop. It seemed to drop on the big efforts throughout the ride.
But TBH I'm pretty stoked I wasn't lapped, every cloud an all that.
I'll be better prepared next week, with a whole 7 days to think up a different excuse 🙂
I was waiting for someone in our group to go so was trying to conserve energy on the last lap. Think we were all doing the same.
I had more to give but didn't fancy a solo TT to real in Paul and Giggsy, plus I knew they both had time on me in the handicap so a few seconds wouldn't make a difference. I was keeping an eye on Ivan and Robbo as I knew they were near rivals.
We pulled a fair gap to the next one behind...around 4 minutes so we must have been motoring but it didn't feel like it.
That first lap was tasty and I was a bit worried it would continue at that speed but once the ultras left it settled down 🤣🤣
Great race all and well done to our group