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Super ta. 7pm should give me time for (mini house bound) circuit training before hand too so hopefully see some folks there, if you're really lucky you might get to hear me breathing like an old fashioned dirty crank call over discord too.
ZwiftPower is for those doing the races really.
Some races as said - no HR monitor then no result. But some races do allow you to result - my HR strap broke last week, and Amazon delivery not scheduled till May!!
So no HR till then. But I was disqualified in one race, but been shown in others .. podium places too; so I think HR is certain races only.
Not going to make it tonight so I've cancelled my invite to free it up for someone else.
I'll definitely be there for the next. Enjoy chaps!
As Blackadder once famously said ‘My life is strewn with cowpats from the devil’s own satanic herd’. Now can’t make tonight so my legs will be saved from being ripped off by the usual suspects.
Should be back for the next one.
Not going to make it tonight
Ditto - did a ride at lunch time so can't make it. Have declined the invite to free it up.
Ditto
Ditto here, home school declared a last min INSET so I went for a ride outside!
Same here. Wife had an asthma attack today. Have got her settled now and got some steroids from the docs to help her out (she has had a cough and we have been self isolating but coming to the end of that so docs were ok the prescribe) but I don’t think I am in the right frame of mind as has been pretty stressful. Little man goes to bed between 7 and 8 and I’m not going to make her walk up and down the stairs just so I can have a bike ride!
Enjoy yourselves. Let me know when the next one is on.
Fine 🙁
Mooman. I've got a spare Garmin HR strap knocking about if you want it. I lost it, bought another then found it so it's spare but happy to lend you it til May if you want. I'll wash it!
Slowpuncheur - thats very generous, and thank you very much. But I can manage not wearing a HR monitor for awhile - my podium results are less frequent than the races that disqualify me for not wearing one, and I more concerned about my average watts than results if I am honest.
But big thanks all the same.
I'm not going to be able to make tonight I'm afraid weeksy.
Not feeling at all well. Not virus related Im very glad to say, stomach related.
I'll have Discord running though if anyone wants to try it though.
If you do, your best to click on your name in the app, then the cog (for settings), scroll down to "video and call" and tick the box labelled "press to talk".... Otherwise your Mic will go hot anytime it hears a noise.... Which will cheese off other people and potentially embarrass yourself to boot.😉
I think only 3 or 4 have clicked the invite link anyway but at least it will give those that want to a chance to try it.👍
Username = Poopscoop
stomach related.
I’ll have Discord running
Might give that a pass thanks! 😉
^^ lol. I've certainly had my exercise today running to the toilet.
If it were an outside loo I'd definitely have broken current lock down rules...
Apologies for the late cry off weeksy.
After a blustery day here building up my new bike, it's turned into a lovely evening so I'm heading out for a shakedown run.
This is gonna be interesting with all the retro kit 😁
Anyone having trouble getting into the Voice channel on Discord need to click on the STW icon and select "STW Voice" channel rather than the General channel.
That "should" work when you try next time. General chat is for text messages only.
Hope everyone had a great ride!👍
Thank you for arranging that Weeksy. I clearly need to work on the staying with a group bit.
I kept yo yo-ing back and forwards, every time I dropped off I over shot catching up, then dropped off the back again over shoot and so on. That or chasing down people who, when I got there, turned out not to be in our group at all
Yes I seemed to be yo-yoing a lot more on that ride, still great fun though 🙂
Well, that escalated 😅 Blowing out my arris for 45mins chasing Mooman and P.Alcock
You boys were flying!!!
We had fun though benman?
Yeah it was good 👍
I was waiting for you to disappear into the distance in the last 5 mins 🙂
Really enjoyed that again - thanks for organising Weeksy
Thanks for organising that Weeksy, thoroughly enjoyable apart from that little kicker every lap!
Really good session tonight chaps! Myself and Ivan buddied up for most of it... had a few issues with the new turbo tyre slipping, but was a GOOD workout!
DrP
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Yeah it was good 👍I was waiting for you to disappear into the distance in the last 5 mins 🙂
I made the mistake last time of assuming Alcock would go for the sprint to finish the last 30 seconds ... and he didnt, so I felt a bit silly going off on my own. So made sure it was a sensible group finish this time.
Hopefully catch yous next time.
We were about 5 mins in and it looks like my tacx vortex lost connection with my iPad, first time that’s happened, game over, rode a 42km loop in Watopia instead 🙁
Great ride again Steve. I was surprised how much the first climb blew everyone apart.
I had a great ride with Ian W for a large chunk and then foolishly decided to try to catch DrP and Ivan. That nearly killed me and I had cramp at the end of it. Props to DrP for riding the MTB!!
Sounds like a good one chaps.
Anyone up for a spin at the weekend? I'll have more free time then.
@Nick - I don't know how it works on the ipad but I started getting power drop outs on my laptop (which is pretty high spec so was running on full res) after a certain update. I would get 10 mins or so into a workout and power would dropout. I dropped the graphics settings down a notch and it cured it.
My laptop fan would be screaming at the end of a workout so I think there was some power management stuff going on that was causing the Ant+ to drop.
May not be relevant for ipads??
I think some people were seeing different things, I only saw people riding the retro bikes in retro kit but seemingly some people were seeing the normal bikes and kit?
Cheers for that, same as some others I had issues holding onto a group but managed to stick with a decent pace until the end
Yeah I saw the bees and regular bikes throughout the ride.
Well that ride just about broke me.
Couldn’t stay with front group so dropped back after about 15mins
Hills just absolutely cripple me, my turbo pretty much locks up on anything over 5% and I’m out of the saddle just to turn the cranks
Then went round at a much more acceptable pace 😀
Phew, was just about hanging in there when the "Battery Low" banner want across the screen. Damn, charger lead had fallen out of the transformer.
Got it plugged in and thanks to Zilog and Scaredy made in back in, then on the next hill I felt pain in my left calf, so eased off and cruised around cursing.
Been having this issue for a while, is ok mostly but if I really push it comes on, feels like either cramp or the muscle pulling. After the first time I rested for a couple of weeks and thought that was it but it re-occurs from time to time.
Thanks to Weeksy for organising and to others for the help, see you on the next one.
Well I think I've got my trainer working sensibly again. Power was reading waaaay under for a bit to the point I could barely get the pedals turning over.
What pace/wattage are the group rides running at?
I averaged 266w for the hour and was 5 minutes off the front group pace so tonight's was pretty hard work!
I think the hill just blew it apart and then it was game on, the flatter ride was less spicy until we were unleashed by Weeksy.
Still reading these with interest. They seem to currently be happening every other night and they coincide with it being my night to put the kids to bed, will try and blag an invite when I've available.
Having said that, looking at some of the wattage people say they are putting out I'll be dropped after 30 seconds anyway!
@eskay iPad was fine once I turned the turbo offandonagain, iPad seemed to have forgotten it completely, had to re-pair, it was much busier in Watopia than what it looked like in NYC on the meet up and it was trouble free for 90 minutes, so I think it was just a glitch, hopefully a one off
Having said that, looking at some of the wattage people say they are putting out I’ll be dropped after 30 seconds anyway!
Always room at the back, we're not all dumping out those watts!
Yeah it was a decent pace last night, the first I did was a bit easier going 🙂
203W average last night.
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Well i've set the next ride for Sat morning 10:30am on the VERY flat desert route. Should help massively in keeping the group together, but with the potential downside of an increase in traffic. Last nights was weird in traffic as the App only lets you join certain layouts, saying you can only join what's open that day, but i think it may be broken as NY wasn't open as such, so was absolutely empty.
I expect Watopia on Sat to be busier.
The ride on Sat is 90 mins... No-one gets left unless they tell us they're done 🙂 If you try, we'll try and keep you with us.
Weeksy, I couldn’t join last night, I met up with you during the warm up but think I fat fingered the invite. I did a race just before it and then couldn’t find the invite to join. Will be there Sat.
Anyone having problems with zwiftpower? My race is only listed as an activity not a race.
Zwift power is struggling due to the number of ToW rides on the makeup days. They are now prioritising independent events for processing, any ToW races are taking up to 24 hours to have results published on ZP.