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Enjoy. Cider and burrito here!
Sorry folks I'm going to have to skip. Mrs brain has had a lousy day and has "politely suggested" I might want to go for a walk with her instead of my race.
zwift hates me and wont even start, sorry guys
And me, apparently I'm an unrecognised user.
apologies guys - I can't get onto the Zwift app - either from the desktop or the companion app.
Not sure if it's crashed or overloaded? I just get an Error 404 message
I hope enough of you managed to log to ride!!!
Yeah same here, can’t log in!
Zwift has a major login outage. If you were in then you were fine. Otherwise not.
That explains that then.
5 of us are in.
Ah, I lost Comms and went when I saw stripes.
Well, we somehow managed to scramble together a team of 5. And we got to the end together.
@W00dster, sorry, when I got back in the other voice channel after telling you to join us they had already left the pen and I had to chase back on, I hope you weren't left in limbo too long.
I don't know if we'll get a result (officially we were a mix of STW and MoreSTW...) but there was chaos so maybe I can get us consolidated.
Hopefully next week will be more successful. This was a good week for a walk @dangeourbrain!
Yeah but of a nightmare, I couldn’t change my name in zwiftpower, wouldn’t let me log in. Logged out of zwift then couldn’t get back in!
Did a work out on RGT instead.
We seem to have a warning triangle by the entry on WTRL, and we're "mocha"
not seen/been mocha before
once we worked out who was "in" and got going we rode that as a really tight unit (apart from jamesoz who kept trying to disappear !)
Bad luck all those locked out. Just by chance I'd logged in ages ahead of time to check for updates and then forgot to log out again
I logged in about 20 mins early and left it there as I was going to do my warm up during our 16 min wait. Not sure how much time we lost in the start but I don’t think we went early. Once we got going it was good. We rode well together and re-took that team and out a minute into them by the end. Was a great workout that one - almost 900 calories burnt and enjoyed the final surge. Looks like all the tags are ok so see what happens but the result isn’t too important. Was good to ride.
Gutted to miss out! Left it quite late to try to log in due to the delay.
once we worked out who was “in” and got going we rode that as a really tight unit (apart from jamesoz who kept trying to disappear !)
Sorry new to TT!
You all vanished at one point, possible WiFi/internet issue, I just tried to pedal consistently until you reappeared, I or my android phone failed at discord and I dropped the iPhone I use for companion. Was fun though, cheers.
Sorry new to TT!
Oooh, no matey - I meant literally. Your avatar must've vanished about 5 times during the ride, once just as we were overtaking a group. You did well to keep it going steadily during those
@jamesoz you rode well and stuck with the group. Was a good first tt outing especially without comms. You kept physically disappearing from the screen due to dropouts I think but came back into the group so it didn’t disturb too much. We didn’t have any big power guys I don’t think (I think everyone was about 270w ish) so think everyone took turns on the front.
Ha, our tags are all correct. That's quite an achievement this evening.
Mocha is for C/D mixed teams. No idea why it's put us there with a warning, it knows it's wrong. With those tags it should reclassify us back into latte eventually. We lost a bit of time at the start but it doesn't matter.
@jamesoz it isn't usually that shambolic. The ride, once we got going, was a good one though. I hope you had a good time. You did the invisibility trick a few times.
I enjoyed it, thanks for organising. Different kind of pressure to a normal race, probably less likely to have a coronary in the conservatory without the mental starts.
That was a mad scramble with 30 secs to go to change the ZP tag, and also to get out on the dot of 3:30. My water bottle was not prepped and no snacks !, thought I had 16 minutes to sort that out.
Didn't have much more to give and didn't get dropped, so top marks all round.
From FB:
To all those in Zone 8 who were affected by the entire Zwift game network crashing, Zwift have kindly offered to do a Zone 8 reschedule FRIDAY 13TH 19:30 GMT / UTC
I have some library books to take back, and then I have to re-order my record collection, enjoy yourselves.
Yeh Friday night is family film night so I wont be riding...not that I particularly want to!
3 laps of Watopia Hilly Route next week - should be too bad only the short sharp climb 3 times 🙂
19.30 on a Friday? Hmmm I take it wine in water bottles is bad?
Zone 8 reschedule FRIDAY 13TH 19:30
I'm guessing there's not much interest in this tonight? I'm happy to put an entry together if I'm wrong though.
If it exists (rather than just being an "offer"...) it's a private event. Is there an entry link on facebook @haloric?
The event link is:
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1231763?fbclid=IwAR15bF01GNsWTZPWyAc0ZFdBkYTw9LwG2sDHV78aP5-tgtImKWlzuVs_twI&__znl=en-gb
The full text from FB:
Just a note to say that as the Zwift Apprentice unplugged the main server to charge his phone, much of the Zone 8 race data that did come through needs a bit of 'Martin Magic' working on it but some of it is more dead than a dodo.
We wont be announcing the results tonight. There is a 'Make-Up' WTRL TTT tomorrow (Friday 13th 😱) for those teams who can and want to give this one another go.
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1231763
Signup is crudely on a Google Doc at the moment
Thanks @haloric
If anyone who missed out last night does want another go at 19:40 this evening just speak up and sign up to category A here:
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1231763
(I think you can reasonably anticipate empty roads and a short start delay...)
I'll do the team signup if we get a team together by early afternoon. No pressure though.
Take it no one went back for a second try on Friday evening then?
Anyway some details on this weeks course TTT
https://zwiftinsider.com/wtr-ttt-83/
That's going to be a swine of a course to keep a group together on.
Entries are in. All riders enter Category A here: https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1232591
@robbo1234biking no, no takers for the redo on Friday (not a surprise...). Yep @ivandobski it is a difficult course for a TTT - one of my favourites for solo racing, but this will be totally different to that. The first time up the main climb is basically straight out of the gate, so might be OK, but the third time up, after all the little ups and downs of the laps is going to be a proper test.
Easier than Richmond a couple of weeks back though I reckon. Only the one climb instead of three!
Have fun folks but it's a no from me this week sorry.
(and we always do well on hilly courses so I wouldn't worry too much!)
I've signed up but if I'm not needed happy to drop out.
If there's room for a little one I can't make my usual ride this Thursday.
I'm interested in taking part this week if there is space available.
@trolo1234 there certainly is space. You'd be welcome to join in. It's Thursday 7.40pm.
Sign up to category A (even if not your normal category; the categories are used differently for the TTT) here: https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1232591
Later in the week I'll post the two teams (both mixed B/C category riders), the practical info and I'll bear you in mind and add all the necessary detail.
In the meantime, just make sure you have a zwiftpower profile set up ( https://support.zwift.com/en_us/connecting-to-zwiftpower-SyldRc_4H)
See you later for the evening race...
We have two treats on the horizon (after next week's mysterious and I suspect likely postponed world champs):
- Christmas TTT (24/12) 2 laps of Bologna.
- New Year TTT (31/12) Road to Sky.
**** that– Christmas TTT (24/12) 2 laps of Bologna.
double **** that 😂– New Year TTT (31/12) Road to Sky.
seem to have picked up a cold from somewhere and feel a bit crap so haven't registered for this Thurs yet, will have to see how I feel on the day. Probably won't do the race tonight either which is gutting as I've not missed one yet! (well, I shouldn't do it, although unlike the TTT there's the option of easing off/bailing out whenever I feel like it so might decide to wheeze through it...)
I'm just speculating, but they haven't announced a course, or anything which distinguishes it from a normal Thursday TTT. I could be wrong (indeed, demonstrably wrong already if they've released more info on facebook or something). But the date changed once, and I wouldn't be surprised if it changed again, that's all...
@zilog6128 I really thought your cold was being wheeled out as an reason to skip the xmas/new year TTTs to start with then. That's a shame though, @weeksy is tipping you (plausibly...) for the win tonight on the race thread.
@savoyad lol hadn’t even looked at the handicaps for this week... I guess that’s down to my relatively low FTP... basically just have to let the faster riders tow me round for some easy points 😀 damnit can feel myself getting reeled in 🤣
I joke but actually would be up for those TTTs! Definitely in the slower team for RtS though, draft effect would be much less so would be too brutal trying to keep up with the faster guys! Bologna might be ok (it’s actually one of my favourite routes although never done the 2 lap,version), the climb is much shorter although would obviously require a big effort to keep the pace up!
I'm considering joining in with the ttt this week...
Still space for a few more - 11 of us signed up for Thursday so far. A shorter but hiller route this week, 3x Watopia Hilly (27km).
Join category A here: https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1232591
I'll be ready and available for the Team Time Trial tomorrow night at 7:40