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Looking for morestw in the results and wondering if I've messed it up for you guys somehow? I changed my name in zwift in the afternoon believing it would automatically update zwiftpower but it clearly doesn't so I raced as (morestw) according to zwiftpower. Is there any way this can be corrected? Sorry if I've messed it up
@speedstar Zwift and Zwiftpower aren't linked so you have to do them separately (but you only have to update in ZP for the TTT). Could be why as we would have 9 riders then so assume we got DSQ (although you think they would say that in the results!)
I wouldn't worry about it though. You can email them but it prob isn't worth it. Think we came in at 40min 17 seconds so about a minute behind you guys. Would have put us about 80th in Latte (and we would have beat @mrhoppy team as well! 🙂 )
Tags wont be an issue next week as we will use the new sign up process.
Couldn’t find the MoreSTW results either. Very much doubt if you affected the result by changing your tag.
Fair performance from STW last night on a decent short route. Great to see speedstar hanging on up the hill. Captains orders to gun it up the final kick split the field with the 4 of us super tucking all the way down to the flat. Think we generated a 20 second gap without even pedalling!
Edit-ah yes, didn’t realise you guys had a full team. WTRL says we had 6. That would explain it!
Coulda, woulda, shoulda @robbo1234biking 😛
Not that their result had much to do with me, we were nearly 1st on the road at the bottom of Box Hill so I very valiantly suggested I'd try what I was calling the "evergreen" tactic and block the road as they went on. Didn't work.
https://zwiftinsider.com/route/watopias-waistband/
Next week is fairly short and flat again. Don't think I have ridden this route before.
Ok I've emailed them and messaged them so hopefully they can do something. Apologies again! Also we just lost more and more time on the descent once we split so you guys must have been gunning it!
it was a TTT back in Oct although according to the results, we didn’t enter any teams that week for some reason (although we did the weeks before and after!)Next week is fairly short and flat again. Don’t think I have ridden this route before.
Totally flat so will be taking pulls the whole way round with zero opportunity to have a rest! At least it’s short although normally that means we just ride harder 😂
we actually had a split too so weren’t particularly! Just highlights why it’s so vital to summit together just before a big descent, as then you can all supertuck together and pick up tons of free speed!Also we just lost more and more time on the descent once we split so you guys must have been gunning it!
Also we just lost more and more time on the descent once we split so you guys must have been gunning it!
It’s the effect that cresting the climb together gives you. None of us were pedalling, but all 4 were super tucking on the descent giving us the massive gap. Didn’t matter so much last night as the descent was near the end, but just shows how important it is on a TTT to crest together on hills mid course.
Only the first 4 riders count right?! I hit a PR coming up Box Hill mainly due to Phil's incredible mentoring as I had no legs even by the bottom of the hill and was fully ready to quit! Managed a paltry 4wkg over the last rise which is worse than most of my PRL full attempts as I simply had nothing left to give.
Have I got this right: the one week, ever, that tags can't be fixed (a policy @robbo1234biking endorsed wholeheartedly as "tough luck/shit happens"!) is the week we get a dq for a tag error?
New system from now on.
As soon as I have recovered from reading @w00dster's post above I'll supply some details.
In the meantime: everyone will need a WTRL account from now on. If you don't have one, you can prepare for the brave new world by signing up here: https://www.wtrl.racing/registration.php
Yeh should have kept my mouth shut on that one! haha
**NEW ENTRY SYSTEM KLAXON**
The brave new world is upon us. There will be no more zwiftpower tags to update. From today, we do things differently. Full details below. What could go wrong (possible answers in capitals below...)?
1. From now on DO NOT SIGN UP TO THE TTT ON ZWIFT (YET). Sign up on the STW TTT spreadsheet each week here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
It's quite sophisticated, so any questions about how it works just ask in the thread. Equally, if you see a way it probably won't work, do tell me. I've populated it with people who rode yesterday, but just add your name if you aren't there.
There will be a deadline: 10am Wednesday for now. I plan to bring it forwards.
2. I'll post teams, aiming for Wednesday AM. At that point, I'll also post the wtrl/zwift racepass links and announce which pen each team will ride from - one link for each team, specific to each team, pens might be different. Clicking these links will whisk you through the WTRL site (attaching you to your team) and on to the zwift sign up page, where you should enter your allocated pen. DO NOT CLICK THE WRONG LINK. DO NOT GO DIRECTLY TO ZWIFT.
That's it.
Team entries are in for next week.
7.40pm Thursday, 1 lap of Watopia's Waistband - short, flat, fast.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
All welcome. Just add your name if you are not yet on the list. Comments are ephemeral, I'll delete them all ahead of the following week.
Signed up. 8 already on a Friday!
Anyone else have to look up what ephemeral meant?!
Added to sheet but think I'll be out for a couple of weeks, thanks for the organisation @savoyad
Bump. Lots of names already, looking good.
@mbs, @dangeourbrain, @speedstar, @w00dster, @rj2dj - note the new system, sign up here if you'd like to ride on Thursday. ASAP, and by Weds 10am.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
Im not going to ride tomorrow night.
I haven't been 100% since getting my jab, nothing major at all just a bit under the weather (might not be connected - might have just got a bug from my sons school). I rode last night and didn't seem too bad but a bad nights sleep and I just feel knackered. Going to take today off, just something gentle if I feel up to it tomorrow and take it from there. No point putting myself in a hole.
Happy to still sort out a plan for MoreSTW if someone wants to take over pull calling duties?
I've taken myself out - was jabbed at the weekend and was doing sort of ok on Tuesday nights pain fest but then lost the will to live at about halfway.
I'm doing an actual ride in the actual outdoors tonight, if that goes ok I'll put myself back in.
LAST CALL! Thursday, 7.40pm, Watopia's Waistband.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
We're on 8 riders. So it might be just the one team.
Let's give it a little longer - for latecomers (@mbs, @speedstar, @w00dster are you joining in?) and I also just invited people in the race thread.
Anyone interested, sign up here. Just add your name if you aren't there already: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
If it's your first time, I'll make sure I post all the required info.
Ok I'm in. Think I'll miss it if I don't. Not sure how I'll do without Phil whipping me on!
Still 8 riders, so we'll go with one team. I'm afraid that means no new/last-minute entries this week (unless someone withdraws in the meantime) to avoid too much chopping and changing. It'll be harder to accommodate that with the new system, we need to find the best balance.
STW
@paino
@yanboss
@phil56
@scaredypants
@munkeymadness
@slowpuncheur
@zilog6128
@speedstar
HOW TO ENTER:
No more zwiftpower tags.
Click the "racepass" entry link below. This is specific to this race, for STW only. It takes you via WTRL (you'll need to login) and onto zwift.
When you get to zwift (ONLY via the racepass) enter PEN D.
Racepass, you MUST enter using this: https://www.wtrl.racing/zwift/zwiftsignon.php?id=Q0lPMGZtdy9nbDNyVHRMdVRCN3kwQT09
Pen D starts at 19:43 (it's 4 minutes behind Pen A). ON TOP of that there will be a start delay. I'll update when that's announced.
Done! It does indeed send you straight to the companion app (on mobile at least) once you log in to WTRL. Neat.
It's working.
Done
No, @robbo1234biking, I entered one team in latte (A) and one in frappe (D). But we're only using one.
And I'm out again. Sorry lads been up with the wee man since the small hours and going to be wrecked by tonight particularly after deciding to do a fastest race instead at 6am 🤪
I'll take that spot if thats ok !
Not sure how I'll be but last nights ride out was ok, albeit electrically assisted.
I'm hoping for trikes...
My warm up was on a trike this morning 😂 I was really hoping it would be the same in the race but sadly not! Wondered what their CdA was...
speedstar
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My warm up was on a trike this morning 😂 I was really hoping it would be the same in the race but sadly not! Wondered what their CdA was…
Same for me....was disappointed I couldn't race on one.
Confirmed team, start delay 11.5 minutes
So in the pen by 19:43 and off at 19:54:30
STW
@paino
@yanboss
@phil56
@scaredypants
@munkeymadness
@slowpuncheur
@zilog6128
@haloric
All present and correct in the underwhelming new "management interface".
It's fast and flat, there's really nothing surprising all the way round, you all know where the little lumps are. Don't forget the finish is back out in the desert, so there's still a way to go when you leave the volcano and get that "nearly there" feeling though.
Thanks for the ride, all. Sorry to cut & run
Might turn out to be an expensive Easter for me - trainer's gone very notchy and the power's all over the place ... but if I'm lucky it's just accumulated bits of dust/drive belt/brake material (or maybe it's all just magnetic, who knows).
I reckon it has overheated which would make sense as this is the first non-freezing ride I've done in ages. Just maybe a good blowout'll "fix" it for another few years of zero maintenance 🙄
Bit of a quicker pace than usual for me! Good ride though, only 3W shy of my best ever 20 min power for the bit before I got dropped 😂 Was basically just hanging on the whole time, then had to sprint to pass that team which did me in! Slow pedalled and waited for Ant then cruised to the end with him. Knackered me out again just listening to the rest of you do the last km on Discord 🤣
Ha. I was unpacking the suitcase of courage (copyright Paul Sherwen) when I heard you and Ant great each other over discord like you're out for a Sunday stroll. Made me laugh.
@zilog6128 and @haloric you were due a run out with STW, it was good this chance arose. There is such a range of power now in the riders we have that's it's sometimes hard to fit our C's - and some of you are very, very, good at sticking with a fast ride - into STW.
The spreadsheet is reset, entries now open for next week. It's a lumpy one - 2x Harrogate Reverse, 27km. Thursday, 7.40pm as usual. Declare your availability here, preferably by Weds 10am:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
Bump. Enter for Thursday here. All welcome (just add your name if necessary):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_0I0hulOaE2y34RpjckVCoT2Jks16vypeZ98L_LUw8/edit?usp=sharing
SORRY - initially signed up but forgot, MrsP has other plans. Shame; I love climbing hills
🤔 (closest I could get to a chinnyreckon emoji)
Currently on 8 - anyone else make it this week before the 10am deadline tomorrow?
Is a tough course this one!
I'm away from home at the moment and don't know if I'll be back in time for Thurs evening. Hopefully I should have a better idea before cut off tomorrow.
Hi Happy to give it a go - but if you already have 8 I will sit out. Not raced WTRL with STW before but have done it weekly with my club. They just moved outside on Thurs evening and I cant make the earlier starts.
Welcome @djflexure! Any other takers?
We're hovering each week around 8/9 riders which is potentially awkward for team numbers. We might have to choose between small teams and a one-team summer.
I've just signed up.
Just realised I make the 9th so I'm happy to withdraw to make the numbers work unless there are more takers.