If it;s a Garmin HR monitor, fresh battery inserted upside down for 10 seconds does a reset, I believe. Mine died and was never revived. I've had flawless performance from a Wahoo TICKR and a Powercal though, the latter through many battery cycles. I bought the TICKR because I wanted Bluetooth for iOS Zwift.
Yeah its finding a session at my target w/kg is the issues. For instance, tomorrow is 1h:10 interval at 3.2w/kg which is akin to Z2 in the boredom stakes albeit a tad harder,. For me its that kind of session it’d be good to ride around with others.
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Ah got it, thanks.
Scaled - i have a garmin hr chest Strap that you are more than welcome to have. As far as i know it works but hasnt been used for a couple of years so if you are willing to take a punt on the just the cost of postage (i would guess a few quid) then you can have it. I have no way of testing it as i dont have anything ant+ so no promises, just pm if you want it.
My HRM completely failed to register last night, changed battery and still nothing. Anyone had any luck reviving a dead one?
I'd check the connections between the strap and the monitor, make sure they're not corroded etc. Sometimes the connections within the strap fail, might be worth trying a new strap, though it's a bit of a punt. Cheaper than a full replacement HRM and, if you have to replace it, you could use it as a spare, if you go for the same model anyway.
Gonna have a go at the 8pm KISS TT
Been a while since I did an evening 10...
Never done a Virtual TT
Anybody?
🙁 my lambs are coming thick and fast since yesterday. Feels like I will not get another chance to ride again for a few weeks. Was about to get on tonight and got called out to another tricky birth! Supposed to have RL race on Sunday but doubt I will be able to free up the time to do it now. Will see if I can get on for a few minutes later on tonight
You raced earlier????
Tiger, Be warned the Time Trial starts from the second you leave the pen. Make sure you get the right bike. Just head down, arse up, and ride at threshold. If your power plot shows green you aren't going hard enough 🙂
You raced earlier????
Yeah I know but I'm so far behind on STW chub club that we are on silly extremes, also had fewer than 500cals today. Need to lose the chub!!!
Tiger, Be warned the Time Trial starts from the second you leave the pen. Make sure you get the right bike. Just head down, arse up, and ride at threshold.
You're not bloody kidding!! That was mentally hard, especially as my 1st 'B' cat race. Proper hard work.
But triple yay!!! 2nd FTP increase of the day to 313W
(managed 325w for 1st 25mins but legs were heavy and under fed from earlier and died 🙁 )
I will rest and eat on Friday after my weigh in.....
and quadruple Yay!! Got 3rd 🙂
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=49638
Also saw nathb kicking round
good work, tiger
I like the TTs - particularly so when I just started on zwift as I was shit at drafting and the TT takes that aspect away. I think they're probably a good way of getting a real-world FTP since you still get the effect of the hills.
No Zwifting today... Temperature wasn't bad... So we're back into outdoor mode 🙂
Sometimes a cycle ride brings more questions than answers. Todays ride had plenty of them.
How are my new waterproof Decathlon boots...? the answer is.. really good actually 🙂 impressed lots.
Why do i ride anything other than my T-130 outdoors ? I don't really know why.. I know i've asked myself that question before actually. I still don't have the answer. It's exceptional.
Why didn't i turn round and get the 5mm allen key and adjust seat higher ? Not sure... i'm a lazy sod 🙂
Did i really set them bars straight/centered ? No... Not even close 🙂 hahhahaa Ooops.
Muddy but really nice to be outside again.
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I've checked and can't find the 'outside' option in Zwift.
I quite enjoyed the TT I did, I actually turned off the automatic resistance and just treated it as an FTP test, IIRC it was quite a flat power curve.
I see the Alpe du Zwift is actually a thing. It looks massive. "coming soon"
Why do i ride anything other than my T-130 outdoors ? I don’t really know why..
I do! Your bottom bracket was fubar 😀
(short memory)
LOL i know that... but generally i mean. I often use the Parkwood because the Whyte is my Sunday Best kind of thing, but realistically, apart from a few bearings, there's nothing else on the Whyte that could or should go wrong that wouldn't go wrong on the Parkwood. Added to that it's a lot 'nicer' in comfort, position and overall riding, i just sit and question my sanity as to why i don't ride the Whyte more.
Honestly i am not bragging but i managed another GOLD today. I had no intention of going anywhere near a bike today after yesterdays double montain climb. I then got an email from MGCC race organiser saying he was bringing back the ride and race format this morning, so i got suckered in to doing it. It is 3 laps of watopia flat but the first lap is warm up pace whereby you have to stay behind group leader and then as you start 2nd lap he says go (anyone in front of him is dq’d) and all hell breaks loose. It was a top notch field and i dropped quite a few sustained watt bombs hanging on to the front runners. I was hitting 400-500w on a far too regular basis but i held on right to the final 0.4m. I had no sprint in me so coasted over the line but i was only 12secs behind the overall winner. I won B group by over 20 seconds!
I promise everyone here i will NOT be on the bike tomorrow.
LOL brag all you like mate 🙂 nothing wrong with telling us you had a good performance 🙂
Well after yesterdays madness in the lambing shed just as I was about to get on the turbo I managed to squeeze a ride in this evening. And what a ride. I can barely move now 🙂 I opted for a race taking in the Jungle as I find it a rather comfortable lap. So 30 km in total and about 380m of climbing. Got a good start and was up with a a few of the front runners in the C group and a load of B's. Got dropped by a few on the climb to the bridge but by the 100m sign we were a good group of 8, 4 Cs and 4 B's. And basically we held together as a group, picking up 2 more, all the way to the Italian village whereby all the B's and a couple of the Cs took off in to the sunset leaving me and an American lady to drag each other to the finish. We stuck together all the way till 300 m out when I knew she would kick and was ready. I crossed the line about 1/4 sec ahead pushing over 500w for the last 200m. It turns out on ZPower she was actually a B rider!!. Anyway, all was good and took the bronze. Notice I wasn't the only STW rider in the race with another of us well up in the B group. Well done Phil.
Pretty wasted now.
BUT, and this is a big BUT. weigh in after the race puts me just below my Corpulent Collective target weight 🙂 and I was able to see a weight below 85 kg for the first time in over 20 years. Result. Had my tea now so unlikely to see the same tomorrow morning for the weigh in but is promising for next week./
Well done Welshfarmer, always good to get a podium.
Brilliant on the race and the weight!
A workout tonight with Glasgow Green, on the wrong bike forgot I was on TT still had to push all the way just to keep up with group, the draft makes a massive difference !!
.....and it shows in ZP (proper hard work, was sweating like a ................. 🙂 )
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So became a great workout in the end.
Weigh in tomorrow for Chub Club better be good cause my legs are ruined. (i've only eaten 1000cals today and just burnt that)
BUT, and this is a big BUT. weigh in after the race puts me just below my Corpulent Collective target weight and I was able to see a weight below 85 kg for the first time in over 20 years. Result. Had my tea now so unlikely to see the same tomorrow morning for the weigh in but is promising for next week./
Massive thumbs up as it's tough, 85KG is my target for next week and I'm miles off......Great work 🙂
You keep riding like you have been Matt and you will make the 85 sooner than later. Haha, just looked at your Strava profile and we have more or less identical stats for this year 🙂
This time last year I was a mid pack C but family and ill health took over and I crept up to 101kg at xmas. 6 weeks ago I had ablation for atrial fibrillation, 2 weeks ago I started some short zwift rides, feeling safe in my garage rather than having AF miles from home.
This week I got bored of taking it easy so did a few races, dropping down to D, my heart is still healing so max HR is down but it's great to be exercising again.
Well done for getting back on it. Take it easy mind and listen to your body.
Eeeeek.. Well done drive, keep safe buddy.
Well done for getting back on it. Take it easy mind and listen to your body.
This 🙂
Good work though..
Last night was the week 3 10 minutes best effort workout from the 4wk FTP booster for me.
After setting a new ftp on Sunday the lead up was that little bit harder, but went into the main effort feeling good.
The aim was to maintain 380w for the first 9 minutes then empty myself in the last minute. Didn't quite work out like that...
All ready to set up and found that I'd left the laptop charger at work, so had to download the Zwift app to my phone.
Didn't really think about route due to the faf and ended up on Watopia figure 8. I'd normally try to pick a route with the mountain to climb. There are a lot of kicks on the section where the test section started. Not ideal when trying to set a maximum steady effort.
Constant changing of gears throughout the ride to try to maintain a decent average at a reasonably steady cadence was putting me off. For every little downhill I felt I had to put a bit more effort in to raise the average again. Peaked at 684w at one point after a section at 282w.
Looking on Strava today shows a new 10 minute average of 423w. No wonder I could hardly stand after getting off the bike. If I could maintain that for 20 minutes my FTP would be over 400w.
Two more workouts before the FTP test. I'll be picking the route very carefully this time (Alpe du Zwift may be ideal for this), and not using Zwift on a 4 inch screen. Aiming for 380w average again.
In't Zwift fun?
Well done for getting back on it. Take it easy mind and listen to your body.
Thanks, definitely am listening to body, the doctor said I had no restrictions after the insertion site had healed.
Checked the results this morning and I came 3rd so hopefully I'll be back up to C soon
Thetallpaul, do you not have a smart trainer? In ERG mode, the course you choose won’t matter which can be handy.
Great work on the power too 👍🏻👍🏻
I have a Tacx Vortex, but didn't realise that was possible. How do I do that in Zwift as I'm in a workout?
There should be an ERG checkbox on the workout page that you can tick.
In the workout I was following ERG mode was controlling the wattage for the buildup. When I started the free ride section it changed the resistance according to the terrain.
Forgive me if I'm climbing the wrong tree here. If I select the ERG mode button (I assume it's a button in the companion) the resistance will change back to being constant in the free ride section and I just change gears to get to the required wattage?
Ah sorry- I’ve never done a workout on there with a ‘free ride’ section. I assumed it would revert to slope mode which is a constant resistance like you get during an FTP test but it may well go into simulation mode...
In the free ride mode during those tests you're solely using your gears and the ERG mode is disabled. Last time i did one i couldn't change the resistance to make the ride smoother. I preferred to use a flat route for my FTP test but might try it again once they release ADZ. Wonder if it would differ much
FTP tests are definitely not Sim mode- they just give you a steady resistance.
Looks like that workout does not follow the same rules then. Cheers for looking.
did the 12:05 WBR 6 Lap Volcano Flat Race, got 1st in C with eemy off of here up in 3rd in B was a tough one, tried to hang with a group up front but got dropped at some point, eased up and settled into a group behind, probably about 10 riders, bunch dragged in a lot of stragglers that had been dropped later in the race, sprint for the line was hard, riders everywhere, wasn't first of the C's over the line, but with those without HRM and upgrades to B i ended up first, happy days
Well done Dan. Great result. And Graeme too. No slouch either. Not mad keen on the Volcano flat circuit for some reason. May have to give it another go one day.
I’ve got a nearly new Tacx Flow T2240 for sale in the classifies if anyone is after one?
And Graeme too. No slouch either.
Thank you kindly sir. I have to say, I felt pretty good and thought I might even be able to put in a big finish...............then reality hit when everyone sprinted away. No way I was going to stay with them never mind overhaul them. Good race though.
I did a 2hr 5 min Zwift ride this morning. Wanted some decent pedal time but rain stopped play this morning. It was a gentle pace, but got a reasonable distance done in the end.
Just finished setting up my Tacx2240, thanks to the tips I've read on this thread previously. Even a quick bimble round the volcano a couple of times suggests it's going to be a tougher workout than the dumb trainer I had before.
I joined the STW Zwift strava group, so look for a few segment leaderboards being propped up by me in the very near future.
What races are recommended these days, i ride around 2000 in the week, which used to be the KISS events?
Matt
Well if my sheep behave I am signed up to race tomorrow. 3 hours of MTB orienteering around the sides of the lower Wye Valley so expecting over 1000m of climbing over about 50+km! I am hoping my weight loss and FTP increases will have made a difference. The proof of the pudding will come tomorrow....
We'll that was an interesting loop on the Whyte t130. I did a loop I've done plenty of times and was either quicker or very close to my best ever times on many sections. Many of them I've ridden on road bikes too. Happily, the climbs which should suit the road bike massively I was still quicker on the full suspension bike.
One of crosshairs favourite hills, drag out of hermitage I was a couple of seconds only off my best ever.
Really pleased.
Went for a non virtual ride!!
Ha, I didn't know that paint was on the real thing - assumed it was a zwift creation
Lots of overtaking there. What did you set your weight to ?
drag out of hermitage
Under the old railway bridge and not turning up Slanting Hill?
I'm struggling to think of any others out of Hermitage that would count as a hill.
Lots of overtaking there. What did you set your weight to ?
It’s set to ‘chubby’ at the moment. 👍😀
Did a non-Zwift non-virtual 234 race at Hillingdon yesterday. 50 km in 1:05 and a normalised power of 275 W or 4 W/kg. Certainly in line with the inside results. First few laps were averages of 300-315 W, finished top third in a field of almost 70 riders, most a lot younger than me!!!
So tonight will be a long steady recovery ride on the KICKR. Then a race on Zwift next week. I've signed up for Zwift Power and team STW. So why not?
And I do rather like the Box Hill virtual climb. It's a good rendering of the real thing, I'm just sad I can't my head right to admire the view.
And I do rather like the Box Hill virtual climb. It’s a good rendering of the real thing, I’m just sad I can’t my head right to admire the view
press the number keys on your keyboard and you might get lucky - I forget which ones offer a distant/helicopter view
Correct Beej. They're all hills when you're fat!
Would have ridden up the real thing today but my pedal fell off, did zwift hilly route and ordered spare pedal bits instead.
Well, that wouldn't have happened on the turbo, following dazh round a corner and managed to find a patch of something with less grip than required.
Felt like I lost front and back at the same time, down on my right hip and skidded for a good while. Finished the riri but its bloody sore now! I was all excited about getting a top10 on a climb as well.
Ouch heal fast!
just goes to show you’re better off inside
Had a great time this afternoon. Did the 3:15 Z2 ride today and found myself finding along in a little friendly group being congratulated for my w/kg consistency. Had a great little chat with G Vine (Team Italy) and he asked me to pull the group to the end.
Fees good. 🙂
press the number keys on your keyboard and you might get lucky – I forget which ones offer a distant/helicopter view
'0' is the drone view. If you select it you can then use the + and - keys to zoom in and out and the direction arrows to change the direction and angle of view. It's quite impressive if you like that sort of thing.
WBR one lap volcano. Entered on a whim, but why not. Started at a silly pace as two riders were pulled back at 500 W. Then stayed together until the climb. I hung on to the leaders until two pulled clear leaving a group that fractured into two. First group and 4,5 W/kg climbing. Felt OK, even after yesterday’s real race. Anyway at the summit a few sprint clear and I start the descent. Still pushing 3-4 W/kg, I lose ground as not enough kg! I hold off the last group for a mid-pack 8/15. Story of my racing career. Still, surprisingly good fun. I just need the three lap race.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1472188994 If anyone is interested, 4.1 W/kg, same as the winner, but he had a few more kg
I did my FTP test of Friday following the 4 week FTP booster. Last one i did before Christmas was 269W & Fridays was 285W. So pretty pleased with that along with losing a couple of kilos. This is probably the fittest & lightest i've been for years at this point of the year.
Drag out of Hermitage is on my way home so a good indicator of fitness 🤣
No illusions here about it qualifying as a ‘hill’ 🤣🤣
I guess today is Richmond... We all know that means the fat fellas get a days jolly 🙂
Whilst i don't have the power at the moment... it should still suit me about as well as any other layout. Even if part of that is just psychological.
Not sure the legs have much in them today... but 16:05 for a WBR 5 lapper seems to be the order of the day 🙂
Fat boy didn't get to flat play... Instead due to timings i had to go hilly. So a decent warm up and then went for it.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=51134
Holding my bunch on the flat, meh, easy enough... I pushed on a few times trying to split the group to get a lead before the hills, but i only shelled 2 riders, who probably passed me on the hills again.
Overall my times were GREAT, lots of 2nd bests, plenty of 3rds and the odd first. So i was happy. Performance in the race, i couldn't have done much more really. I'm not built for these courses as we know. But looking through the list i beat a fair amount of lighter guys and a 260w average, i can't be unhappy, especially as i cruised some sections of the flat really.
God workout and perfect for a fasting day.... I SO need them 600 cals now !
Lol -19 CVR points, awesome.
Well I did a race today as well, totally by accident. I had had a rubbish nights sleep to the point I almost didn't get up. Dragged myself out of bed and found it was Richmond. I decided to have an easy bimble around the flat course when I saw SZR had a group ride. This is rather unusual as normally at this time there are no event options. I tried to join it and although the app said I had joined it didn't take me to the start.
Thinking I had a problem I decided to try and join the next event which was a WBR 1 lap race. Not only did I join it took me straight to the start!
Although I didn't feel the best I decided to do mainly as I couldn't figure out how to quit out of it. I had entered C. Off we went and I hit 250 to 280 watts for the first k or so and ended up in a group of 12.
Normally after about 5k I am hanging on but surprisingly that wasn't the case this time. The pace was quite solid but felt reasonably comfortable which shocked me somewhat.
I decided my goal was to stay with the group until the hills and then see what happened. One or two guys tried to break away but we reeled them in.
We hit the hills and I hit 4w/kg and dropped everyone but 2 who were just ahead of me. We got caught by another guy at the bottom of 2nd hill. The first two guys took off and I dropped the new guy and caught the other 2 at the top. Worked really hard to the last hill and passed the other two guys. Caught a couple of stragglers up the last hill but then on the flat bit got passed by the same two guys again. I just couldn't catch them.
Ended up 6th, took a minute off my pb for the lap and averaged 3.1w/kg which was a record for me in a race. I am stoked. All the hill work I have been doing is paying off. Interestingly Weeksy I was 4 seconds slower than you but clearly in a tougher race 😉
PS Tiger really liked the box hill video. I never realised cars were allowed on it.
@jk501 Nice!
Well I decided to avoid an endurance ride and rest day on the 4wk FTP Booster and went straight to the last workout - The dreaded FTP test.
First a slight disclaimer that I have never taken one of these tests with a power meter, only on the road to find out my FTHR. Any FTP values in Zwift have been obtained on Watopia Mountain, usually in an event.
Aim was to sit at a steady 380w for the 20 minutes (like in my previous post), but I couldn't find a suitable gear. It was either 340w or 390-420w @95-100rpm. So I ended up trying to maintain 400w. Good God that was hard work. The first 10 minutes were manageable, and I was feeling reasonable. At 15 minutes it was starting to hurt and the HR was climbing into the 170s. At 18 minutes the real mental battle started and the power dropped into the high 300s for a while. With one minute to go I just shut my eyes to avoid seeing how long I had left, and pushed as hard. I think I hit 460w at one point.
The result? An increase from 346w to 392w. Absolutely astounded! I can barely walk, my legs are like jelly
Next goal is RideLondon 100, so swapping to more endurance based riding now and hopefully lose a few kg in the process. Just in time for the new mountain to be released. I may even ride outside!
Did the ZBR social ride tonight, after nearly killing myself on the WBR 3 lap volcano race the night before. Social my ass!
The blurb reckoned 1.4-1.6 w/kg, I was putting out over 200w and couldn't stay with the guys off the front. I decided discretion was the better part of valour and eased back till I found a group of 4 who actually were putting out something like 1.6/1.7 w/kg. Made for a much better second half hour and I got to practice group riding (much easier when you're not dying like a dog!).
How can you tell who the ride leader is on these social rides? I hope it wasn't the guy three or four minutes up the road!
Matt
No trophy for me today as i actually went out in the real world, 2nd time this year! Did a lumpy 35 miler and it felt great, legs still strong at the end.
Interestingly Weeksy I was 4 seconds slower than you but clearly in a tougher race
That can easily be the case on Zwift.... different groups, different profiles etc. My group was more than 20 early doors which made the flat stuff really easy.
The result? An increase from 346w to 392w. Absolutely astounded! I can barely walk, my legs are like jelly
Wowsers... that's big numbers right there !
How can you tell who the ride leader is on these social rides? I hope it wasn’t the guy three or four minutes up the road!
There's a guy who has a big floaty gold thing. It's unlikley it was anyone up the road, they usually stick to the required pace give or take. There's always some who go off the front though.
Given Zwift the boot this weekend and decided to opt for real work experiences...Have a good idea to reccy the Vale Velo route i'll be doing in a couple of weeks, ended up doing around 83 miles in 5 hours, 2 days later and i'm still broken and sore. Not sure the endurance training on Zwift has actually helped or hindered me!
Good work all, raining today so I think I might have a go at WBR 3 Laps Greater London Flat Race (40.2km/25mi) Today @ 19:35 🙂
or go for the first run of the year but I think Zwift maybe....
PS Tiger really liked the box hill video. I never realised cars were allowed on it.
Ta, yep some people live up there and National Trust car park is at the top.
There’s a guy who has a big floaty gold thing. It’s unlikley it was anyone up the road, they usually stick to the required pace give or take. There’s always some who go off the front though.
Cheers Weeksy, I didn't see one of those, just ended up hanging with a couple of people who had PACK after their names. Seemed logical at the time!
Back to business and after a bit of a drowning outside this morning to go collect the car after been serviced (only 5 mile ride). Got home in time to take on boxhill twice for the end of season mgcc ride.
it must have been watching Tigers video that inspired me to smash out two equally fast laps. First box hill climb in 7:10 and second in 7;12. I was in a lead group of 3 but one dropped out at the start of the second climb as he had cramp. Me and the other guy were not backing off and at one point he was 2secs ahead but i knew my steady tempo would draw him in. I saw him slowing slightly as the A group caught us so i blindsided him and went with the A’s with a feather PU,not pleasant as i had to up the temp to 5.3w/kg over 420w just to stay with them. Eventually i snapped very close to the top but i had put 20s on my pursuer so i just kept the tempo high and blocked out the pain. Hit all the ramps at full gas and kept the pace high to the finish line. I won GOLD by 28 seconds so a perfect ending to the mgcc winter training season. The guys in Toronto have said that i should now move to the A group in their pursuit races but those guys are just too fast. They were nearly 3 minutes faster than me.
Epic performance again!
I'm mid ride currentlyon a 200-230w hour
The blurb reckoned 1.4-1.6 w/kg, I was putting out over 200w and couldn’t stay with the guys off the front. I decided discretion was the better part of valour and eased back till I found a group of 4 who actually were putting out something like 1.6/1.7 w/kg.
It's been said here before, but w/kg is an absurd metric to pace a ride by unless everyone is pretty much the same weight. In the real - and Zwift - world, flat speed is down to brute wattage, not you watts per kilo, unless you're heading uphill. If one rider weighs 60kg and another weighs 100kg, which is quite feasible, at 2 w/kg they'll be putting out 120 watts and 200 watts respectively.
For the lighter rider to match the heavyweight, he or she'll be at over 3 w/kg and still 20 watts down. Guess which one'll be quicker on the flat.
I don't know why Zwift has chosen w/kg as the dominant metric, but it causes a lot of confusion, particularly when people try to use it to define the pace of a ride. If you're pottering along on the flat and can't stay with someone putting out a lower w/kg figure than you are, that's probably why.
The result? An increase from 346w to 392w. Absolutely astounded! I can barely walk, my legs are like jelly
That's a colossal power increase in what seems to be a very short time and a whopping FTP. How are you measuring it?
Edit: I don't mean to sound dubious, but a 400w ftp is up around pro level. It's about what Alex Dowsett put out for his hour record in May 2015. I guess you probably weigh a little more though.
There's an element of being good at FTP tests, which is worth quite a bit. But yes, that's a monstrous increase, unless it's over a winter and I'd suggest is not solely the result of training. Not that there's anything wrong with that - you need to be good at the tests for it to be consistent, and if your old value was the result of poor pacing then your new one is even more valid.
But yes, I'm assuming you're comparatively weighty, as that's a huge number.
Blader, that's some seriously quick times up box hill, i think 6:55 is my best up there and that wasn't in a race, just a group ride where I'd saved everything for the climb, well done that man 😀
Aarrrrggggghhhhhh Scheiss Computer
Got another random graphics card crash tonight, just a minute off the end of a big workout! So doubtful any of it will be recorded. Ah well. Justifies the purchase of the new computer I have just made 🙂 Just need it to arrive now
That is the hardest thing I've ever done on a bike in under an hour!!!!!!!!!!! Managed to hold the 'A' front group until the last 2km finished 22seconds off 1st A . Phil A also STW in there
Fell off the bike dizzy and shaking..
Absolutely Mother Ducked!!! Av HR must be in the 170s
Wow!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1475208474
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=50695
wow that's a lot of effort and a lot of Bs behind you.. respect man. I thought i trained hard until you came along !