Zwift meetups and social rides ?

Hadn't realised we were sprinting end of second lap and hard the 3rd lap.
Was off the back helping people back on. Had to sprint from the banner to past the 180 turn to get back in. Couldn't hold the front 3 on the final rise about 1km to go

So, Friday, do we need 2 rides?

1 a bit slower and 1 faster?

Wasn't me To, the last 1.4kn to end of lap 2 they all started chomping at the bit and getting feisty

Last lap was my fastest ever. 2 lap race previously was 6seconds slower per lap!

There was another group in same tops as us that confused me. It happens easily when you’re an idiot.

That was the Spanish STW

Lol. I was happily cruising along with all my Spanish friends. Then we turned a corner and they all left me.

Thank you for organising that Weeksy.

Would there be any takers for an RGT group ride or “race“? I've hardly used it but I'm pretty sure it's quite easy to create private rides?

Enjoyed it again.
Was wondering what the heck I was doing on the last lap clinging on the last third.

weeksy
Subscriber
So, Friday, do we need 2 rides?

1 a bit slower and 1 faster?

I am on 8am-8pm tomorrow and Friday, so only able to ride Thursday.

Will have to try and make it next week if you doing Tuesday again.

Thanks Weeksy I enjoyed that much more than saturday once I worked out where everyone was and dropped into the pack for the 2nd lap. I noticed a slight improvement in performance but have a long way to go to get up with you guys based on the 3rd lap performance.

How does the race end ? I got to the hour and stopped but there was no finish line - is that right?

thanks again and I will drop Jnr Weeksy a couple of quid for his noble ride on Sat

Good ride. Did the last lap with zilog and Atkinson. Was on the limit for most of it it felt like!

Thanks for organising Weeksy - enjoyed that, nice escalation of effort.

Dug in up the rise out of that underpass last lap, then dropped by a sharp turn from Benman toward the crest - hung on to johnny and peesbee chasing him back to a couple of seconds gap, caned it on the final sprint to catch Benman but then tragedy! Sat up too soon before the line and was passed by johnny and peesbee coming back. Good riding all, was fun.

How does the race end ? I got to the hour and stopped but there was no finish line – is that right?

This.

I couldn't see any indicator of laps or finish. I just rode until the hour was up.

How does the race end ?

Today's was end of 3rd lap which came about 52-54 mins for the faster guys.

The actual ride event is 1 hour but I try and time it so we end at a finish line on 50 something.

Thanks Weeksy that was great fun, only my second ride with STW. It seemed to work a lot better as a group than the 6 Train, in general I don’t like flat courses but as a group ride this was great.

If the slower riders were ok with the 170W ish pace for the first laps, I’d prefer 1 big social group ride with free ride last lap rather than separate fast and slow groups.

If the slower riders were ok with the 170W ish pace for the first laps, I’d prefer 1 big social group ride with free ride last lap rather than separate fast and slow groups.

That's my preference too but I understand some may find the pace today too hard, or indeed too easy.

weeksy
Subscriber
How does the race end ?

Today’s was end of 3rd lap which came about 52-54 mins for the faster guys.

Phil56 and myself finished 3rd lap according to my Strava .. on 51:37.
Although I had no idea where the finish line was as I rode around, so used the banner on the Mall as an end of lap marker.

Yeh that makes sense - slow down the second lap and make the last free for all. What about Innsbruck for the next one. Wil be difficult to stay together up the hill but rest of the lap is good.

Just checked and my second lap was faster than 3rd lap but I tried a lot harder on the third lap. Shows the power of racing in a group.

I'm liking the pace, a little too hot for me to last whole ride tonight but pushed me for a couple of laps. Was good fun to be in a quick tight group, the second lap was a very good group.

For me, I like the format, how about - build up lap, faster lap, then maybe a group stick at 175ish whilst the racing snakes go for it?

Certainly seems to be gaining in popularity, well done Weeksy for setting up and organising.

Big thanks to Jaminb and Jimdubleyou for the tow at the end.

Good ride. Did the last lap with zilog and Atkinson. Was on the limit for most of it it felt like!

Like any of you listen to me, it's like trying to control a pack of beagles!

Gutted virtual mechanical for me somewhere on lap 2 I think. Rebooted and rejoined by following a known rider and it was all going ballistic haha another good do, will be back again for more pain. Great work again weeksy.

Yeah, the first lap was fine for me, second was a bit harder, 3rd too fast, which is fine, I want to get faster 🙂

Really enjoyed that Weeksy so thanks again. Knew there was no way I could live with the front group on the third lap so was very grateful to join up with zilog & robbo to work together. Was hoping to push through to the end but alarming spike in heart rate to 200+ at 56mins persuaded me that maybe it was time back off. It’s just so easy to get carried away.

Enjoyed that, but had no idea that the sprint was the start/end of the lap - I was still smashing it out until the hour mark 😂

I've created an RGT Cycling event to see how that compares if anyone fancies it? It should put us in our own world with finishing results and time gaps etc etc.

As it's only a bit of a test it's only a flat 5km crit (5x1km laps) and I've suggested only racing the final 2 laps with an increasing pace for the 3 lap warm up. Realistically it should easily take less than 30mins.

Click on the link and it should take you to the account setup and event sign-up page. It needs a certain number of entrants to run, so will be automatically cancelled if not enough people enter.

Thursday, 1830hrs.

Click To Enter!

PS - RGT Premium is currently free so worth a look anyway.

Can I join the fun please? I’ve added STW to my name and (possibly) asked to follow weeksy. Do, I need to do anything else?

@weeksy you mentioned you are doing a sponsored ride or something for the NHS?

I can't find the info for it, is it in this thread or a separate one?

Scoop, here.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/my-11-year-old-wants-to-help-the-nhs-donation-and-zwift-stuff/

Money is great, but as i said, if anyone has 10 mins, 20 mins, whatever, join in on Sunday, give him a ride on, use the 'ride with' and pick me, i'll be sitting next to him on the road.

He's now raised £750 which goes directly to helping the NHS staff etc, which under current circumstances i think is amazing ! I can't say i'm looking forward to 80.4km @ his pace, but he'll do it, he'll get there.

Can I join the fun please? I’ve added STW to my name and (possibly) asked to follow weeksy. Do, I need to do anything else?

Once the next event day is decided i'll get it done and add you.

HAving a day or 2 off, my legs and body are cooked after last night..

Weeksy et al.... sorry i disappeared... ipad froze after 12 min, then i restarted Zwift, and it kept my time/location, but i lost the group chat/event bit... so just rode london/fox hill etc....

Sounds like it ended a bit pacey!!

When’s the next one?!

DrP

Dunno yet, Yorkshire doesn't really suit us grouping and that's the guest world for a few days now.

Trying to think of another Watopia route that will suit. Maybe Watopia Waistband...

Fri evening maybe ?

I've signed up for rgt on Thursday Ivan, in theory I'm doing the Yorkshire race first thing (largely depends on me getting out of bed in time, a little less on my hrm arriving as I'll need that to get results I guess) so might be a bit ruined in the evening, or might have stayed in my pit and be fine, we'll see.

Watopia out and back again?
Includes the Volcano climb and try and get people to stop at the top of it to regroup. We could then try and nail the DH :0)

Probably want to set it up as 90 minutes though so the group can finish the route if wished.

Well I now have a > 500k internet connection.  So I’ll be back. I did 6 laps of the Volcano with ZZRC on Monday. That took just over an hour although the pace was quite hot.  It’s a pretty flat course with the main kick up into the volcano. Dunno if people would get bored of riding the same 6km circuit tho.

Optional springs on every lap as well...

OK, i've gone nuts... we've had the flat courses, so time to give the lightweights and climbers some fun.

It's the Alp... yup, why not... 🙂

Stick together until the green gate where the Alp starts, then, it's whatever you want, ride with others, ride on your own, or simply take on the mighty Alp.

Alpe??? Oh jeez...

That's me plodding up the back then, my avatar is too bulky to go fast up that hill 🙂
Count me in.

Got the invitation, thanks! Now wishing I hadn’t 🥵. The Alpe! Got lured into that In a group ride previously. Should be fun actually. I’m 6’3 and 14st10, so natural climber I am not!

I've never attempted the Alpe yet, looks like that might change on Friday 😆

I hate it, more than i can put into words... at 90kg it's a long slog up... But the rides can't all be about me 🙂

At 85kg I don't expect it to much better...

I'm in.

I'll be at the back...

Link below says you have to be level 12, I'm only at 10 but group rides are fine 🙂

https://zwift.com/news/5753-climb-alpe-du-zwift

Can you add me please weeksy? I think I have bath cc at the end of my name at the moment. Cheers

Yeah, only level 5 so not been able to attempt it yet. As someone mid 80kgs will also be slow up this but that's fine with me.

I think zwift have lowered the entry level to 6 rather than 12 to decrease rider density on the rest of the island.

I not make Friday so an invite available.
Have fun👍

Perfect, I'm trying to do the GCN Isolation Challenge , the idea is 2 training sessions, 1 race and one ride where you try to climb 500m..... each week.

Don't thnk I can get on Fri so have said not going - not tried the Alpe yet, looks like a beast of a course.

Hi Weeksy
I haven't received an invite yet but I would like to join you again - I've only ever done the Alpe once before.

Don’t think I will do that - that will take me about 2 hours! Cheers for the invite though

There is no way I am sad enough to spend two hours on a sunny Good Friday evening sitting on a turbo trainer pretending to climb Alpe d'Huez.

Oh yeah, that C-19 thing. Guess I'm in then.

How much time have you allocated the ride Weeksy? The climb by itself takes me 90 mins and I've only ever ridden it as part of the Road to Sky which usually takes two hours all in (including the descent). I might need to start at 17:30 or it will be the middle of the night by the time I'm finished.

Just added you weeksy, I hope their are some slow people to hang around with 😂

Last time I did tour of fire and ice it took me 2 hours 15 minutes....I hope to improve this time but I doubt it 🙁

I will do it if you can guarantee me getting the wheels at the top 😂

How much time have you allocated the ride Weeksy?

I've set it to 'distance' of the route, not timed.

Forgot it was good Friday, should i make it daytime instead or is evening best ?

I'm good for morning or evening, whatever suits everyone

Morning works for me, will get me out of doing something DIY related.

I can also do the evening, but it will cut into my Call Of Duty time 🙂

Dont mind

OK, i've set it to 11am. That way people get to spend the afternoon/evening having a beer/bbq/garden/wife time and it's not eating into that.

My invite says 18:30?

refresh it ? if an issue i can delete and start again.

I'm still not seeing an invite - could this be because I changed my name on Zwift?

We can't all be at the back 🙂

I've done the Alpe a couple of times now and it does my nut in because my turbo seems to freak out a bit at very low cadence.
Tacx Flux 2 - I like stand up in a higher gear and grind it out in a singlespeed stylee, it gives a break from sitting and spinning.
Annoyingly, my turbo takes this as not moving and power will drop out and read very low. I'll be putting out say 300W but it reads 70W or so.
When the avatar momentarily stops and unclips while I'm pushing very hard, it puts murder into my heart directed at that stripy wee prick.

Any tips?

Weeksy, I’ve changed my Zwift user name will that effect the invitation status as I’ve not seen the invite for Friday?

Some may not have it yet because I have 70+ stw on my list, so each day I cull some and add some.
As long as you're actively asking you'll get in.

Try and keep it easy for me though lads, I'm not Mr magic the brain genius for remembering who's who

I've not actually done the alpe du zwift yet so this is quite handy, unfortunately at 100kg+ I won't be setting the world on fire!

I should, by then, have recovered from last night's STW ride which seemed to take quite a bit out of me - woke in the night with really tired legs and feeling a bit "overcooked" which lasted most of the day.

Ok thanks, revised user name is rogman(STW)

I'll not make the morning ride so I'll remove myself so someone else can enjoy it 👍

I'll not make the morning ride so I'll remove myself so someone else can enjoy it 😉

I was Phil Alcock - now Phil Phil56 STW

Thanks

Alpe, bwahahahahaha, Alpe bwahahahaha

Oh dear

Did this as a race last Sunday, 2 hours trudging up, swapping positions with the same four blokes every few minutes, a proper slow motion slug-fest.

I'll be plodding at 4-5mph all the way up, any company on the way most appreciated, so slowys lets plod up together, share the misery.

I'll be with you at the back mate as don't wanna kill myself before Sunday.

I've signed up. Sadistically quite looking forward to it.

I did it a few weeks ago and was having a nice tussle with someone; swapping positions every few mins. I finally got the better of him & starting putting a nice gap in - at about 25sec gap, he suddenly started speeding up & his w/kg went up to about 9w/kg - he came past me like a man possessed & then shortly afterwards it went back down to the same rate as when we had been battling.

I'm guessing he fudged his numbers to get back past me - dunno, but it was very odd.

Unfortunately, I'll not be able to do this now in the morning. Thanks for organizing these Weeksy. I've been enjoying them.

I weigh 30kg 🙂

Don't forget, this is not a swift affiliated event, if you want to drop 10, 20 kg whatever, no one cares. If it means you're riding with mates, go for it

Hello weeksy, I've added a little to the NHS challenge for your lad.

Is he going to be on your account on Sunday or does he have his own? So I can give Ridons to right account basically.👍

Oh,I don't think I can make Friday morning so I'll remove myself if I have an invite waiting.