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Well done scaredypants, you best start building a bigger trophy cabinet.
Crosshair - i am certain there are more than a few zwift users doing digital EPO but for what reason i do not know, nothing to gain. There is a user in China (i am guessing by the flag) that as far as i have seen has won every race he has been in and on some occassions will do 2 races in a row, he has put Tim Cartwright in to second a few times. I have no idea who he is or if he is cheating but his record is scarily good but it does make me wonder.
Did my 2nd race this morning. Took part in the WBR 10km 1flat lap and as it was only 1 lap I thought I’d enter as a Cat C.
The eventual winner shot off from the start never to be seen again, so ended up with a group of 3 which I lead around the course pretty much at my current FTP. At the halfway point I was beginning to really feel it but just kept going for as long as I could with the other 2 just sat on my wheel. I was still leading the mini group with 1km to go and at that point realised I was going to be gobbled up. With about 200m to go one guy attacked and I tried to stick with him but just couldn’t match him. Managed to hang on for 3rd place though, so very pleased with that. Not so pleased with nearly knocking myself out as I hit my head on the wall getting off the bike, my legs were jelly (even after a 7 minute warm down). Good fun though, I can see why you’re so addicted Weeksy.
Ah, well you were, err, mugged 😀
(If nobody'll help out, try a bit of surging rather than constant output - that always seems to break me 🙁 )
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Yep, you learn fast in this game 😆
Ha ha, brilliant. I'm enjoying all the reports that's for sure.
Not really had much of a chance to miss mine as the weather has been OK so I've been out pedalling.
Meeting a couple of the lads over at swinley forest today at 2.30 but I'm likely to get over a couple of hours before and do a bit on my own. Hopefully the legs will hold out for their ride too.
Cracking ride at Swinley it was. 90 min on my own doing the built/dedicated trails, then another 90 min of doing random stuff over on Crowthorne woods side of things. Great little day out.
Still baffles me when people give Swinley stick, it's just a fantastic place.
A very interesting PRS race tonight. Fast out of the blocks and the pace never really seemed to let up or so my watt reading was suggesting. It got to about 9km in and i was continually pulling around 280-300w which is pretty pacey but i was thinking this seems easy, had i suddenly become a powerhouse with thighs full of watts or had somebody spiked my drink? Anyway i was in the lead group and each lap they all went sprint crazy up the hill to the volcano so i had to pour on lots of watts on each lap to catch up. Last lap we all knew that it would kick off up the hill so braced myself and got in top gear and decided it was full sprint for as long as i could. Into the volcano i was only a second or two behind the leaders so we all grouped up and it turned into an 8 person bunch sprint. Sadly i came in 7th (3.66w/kg avg 304w) but i still had a nagging feeling my thunder thighs were not right. It seems i had a slow puncture thus the resistance must have been reduced which explains why it was a bit easier at large watts and my sprint rubbish due to slipping (ok i cant actually sprint). Anyhow a good workout but i reckon my tyre will be flat by the morning and if not then i am a powerhouse after all.
I can confirm i am not a powerhouse, tyre was flat this morning. For a short while there i thought i had a full sprint in top gear going up a hill in my locker ready to unleash.
I swear Zwift has it in for me when I'm in a rush!
Was supposed to do a group ride at 8:30 this morning, crawled out of bed at 8:15 and was in the garage setup by 8:28. Apart from then at that very moment my heart rate monitor battery died... Rushed upstairs grabbed a new battery. Then noticed my front tyre was flat (damn latex tubes), so pumped that up with a fight. Finally I then joined in the group ride a little late (20 mins lol) but there..
Until everyone turned left and I turned right.. I thought maybe I had to do a lap to catch them up, so head down and did a power lap or 4... Couldn't gain on them, until I saw everyone on the opposite side of the road 😆
It was telling me I was still 21 mins behind though: https://www.strava.com/activities/1198769211
<slightly rueful high-five>I can confirm i am not a powerhouse
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Scaredypants - just for a few minutes i considered entering the world champs. Tyre is now sorted so middle aged weakling riding can now resume.
Nathb - zwift knows when you are pressed for time as the only times i have been unable to connect to it is when i have been close to the ride start time.
slightly embarrassed to say that my bronze from the other day has matured into a silver (1 rider upgraded to A)
... and today's 4th overall and 2nd in B has turned to gold (rider who pipped me at the line has been DQ for not wearing a HR monitor (rather than pulling 4.67w/kg 😯 )
small fields; I'm under no illusions
What Division are you guys on CVR? I'm forecast as Div 2 now with 1207 points and ranked 844th.
Division 1 with 1700 points, ranked 105th in division 1 and 248th overall.
Although I did a group ride this morning and it's taken 12 points off me!?
449th in div 2 I think on 1139 points.
Not sure how winning my last race resulted in a -1 score though...
Div 4 caused by my turbo issues, I was a solid mid 3 for a while.
Jam bo- it gives a score for the strength of all the riders present and then divides that up using an algorithm with extra points for top placings and points knocked off for DNF's.
I think A & B get lumped together so it's your relative placing to whoever was racing above you too.
I don't fully understand it even when I read it but I'm sure Nath can elaborate.
(I'm 278th in Div 2 🙂 )
I have 1263 points and in Div 2 and not sure of my rank but i think it is 224.
Niiiice 🙂
I haven't followed it at all but the Auzzie ECrit series, that ran for several months with a live final seemed like a very slick event! Not sure if there's going to be a Northern Hemisphere one?
Even Si Richardson got involved!
Live final show:
My free trial is about to come to an end. I have seen mention of strava premium getting you an extended trial. Is this still the case as I can't see anything on either zwift of strava anymore.
Did the EVR race which was 2 laps of london loop and managed to win cat B GOLD trophy. There were 37 in the field so not big buy not that small either but box hill was still torture. I managed to do 7.02 up box hill on the first lap and that took a long time to recover from and no idea what i did on the second lap but i dont think it was too shabby as i caught a few in front of me. 2 of us were heading in to the last km together and i think the other guy has beaten me in a sprint before so i decided an aero power up and a long sustained watt bomb from 1km was my only hope. So i went for it and he followed but with about 0.4km to go i think he gave up as i had about 4secs on him,cruised over the line in a sweaty mess (avg 300w for the race).
Wow, that's a great result. Well done!
I explained the points system a few pages back, (pages 125&126) googled it 😆
"Doesn't matter if your DCBA cats, each rider brings points to the race, to give a pool of points. You're given a projected place in the entire field based off current points/performance, finish higher then you're awarded further points. Finish lower you lose points. Top 3 finishers get bonus points (otherwise it wouldn't be worth their while)."
Cheers Crosshair. Second lap of box hill was 7.49 which i thought was going to be quicker than that given my thighs were pretty much just flames for most of it.
@blader1611 did it save to strava!? https://www.strava.com/segments/12744502
You're part of the Zwifters group? https://www.strava.com/clubs/STWzwift
Showing as 07.00 for the Zwiftblog verified segment
(His pb is 06.40)
Thanks for the info chaps, 2 seconds quicker than i thought.
Crosshair - that PB time is wrong as it was done in my early days using a dumb trainer so i dont count that. My PB is actually 6.47. Either way i am quite impressed i got that close to it coz my PB was done when i was actually trying (7min box hill challenge) so i got to box hill fresh and not raced to get there.
Top job again!
Still waiting for an update from Wiggle on my Snap. So went for a short one on the 29er, only 45 mins but even with some hills I averaged 16mph. I was more interested though on a few segment how my times compared to the road bike times, they were not bad.
Well after a bit of faffing with Wiggle and the lack of phone number irritating me, i spoke to a few people on live chat and eventually got an email.
"Since your return was requested, stock for the replacement you asked for is unavailable.
We have arranged for a refund to be made to your original payment method, sorry for any inconvenience caused."
ARRRGHHHH that wasn't exactly what i wanted.. I just wanted it replacing/repairing.
I guess the upside is that the new one i've now purchased from Evans, comes with a brand new warranty starting from today. So that's techincally a good point.
As i bought it initially on finance though it could be a bit of a faff to sort out.
I paid for express delivery so if it gets shipped today, the new Snap will arrive tomorrow.
Not time to try a different trainer weeksy? Maybe a flux?
That's my next one I think...
Nah, i'm more than happy with the Snap apart from that minor dropout issue.
I've spent £5.99 on a USB extension just in case it's dropping because of that, so i can have the dongle right next to the unit now. Other than that, i've had no reason to move to something else.
The new model is updated in accuracy to 3% now from 5%, so that's good, along with the new warranty and the fact i've enjoyed riding outdoors, i'm all good.
Weeksy - at least its sorted now, dread to think how long Wiggle would have taken to get it repaired!
Do you think [url= http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=322302459334&globalID=EBAY-GB ]This[/url] will work with zwift? It says its picked up by strava and wahoo so does that mean i will have to run it on my iphone and have mobile link running so it shows in zwift on my ipad or will zwift just pick it up on its own?
weeksy -The new model is updated in accuracy to 3% now from 5%, so that's good, along with the new warranty and the fact i've enjoyed riding outdoors, i'm all good.
Hiya again, that's the model I have actually, the 3% accuracy one.
FEC working good now too. I also run an extension lead... 😉
Oh, just did my first race! Had a lot going on but in reality found it all a bit confusing/ intimidating. Stupidly.
Anyway, did the Chase of Truth - D Group at 7.45 tonight.
Think I came 16th but seemed to just get overtaken by everyone to be honest. [b]LOVED[/b] it though!
Trouble is the race isnt even showing on ZPower... Strava has it ok but the race is simply missing from the ZPower site?
Normal?
Thanks for info guys. Finally popped my cherry now and cant wait for the next one I do! HP went up to 189 near the end though, in my attempt at a "sprint". Bit high for a 48 year old unfit bloke??
Good stuff, poopscoop. HR is pretty much a personal thing, within reason. Mine is 171 absolute max that I've reached in last 12 months of turboing (I'm 52 FWIW).
I just "did" a race tonight - not sure how but I clearly miscounted ... in a oNE lap race. FFS !
"Oh, [i]now[/i] I see why I didn't even have to sprint at max to get over in first place"
Was a bit like those youtube vids you see - me sitting up, drinking in the glory as the pack streams past for another 4km 😳
Haha ! - C was won by a 38kg rider with a 95% power of 7.3 w/kg 😀
Yep,I was confused by laps too.
Sent over the finish.... Then thought there was an extra lap so went off again! Doh!
Any idea why the race isn't on Z Power? 🙁
no idea, sorry
Have you made your ride public on strava - I think that's how some races get their results
I think so mate. That said there are a load of settings on Strava for privacy.lol
Also, privacy or not, the race itself is just totally missing from the list of all today's races on Z Power. Odd!
do you ever nod off and have really vivid dreams ? 🙂
scaredypants - Member
do you ever nod off and have really vivid dreams ?
Weird!
I was just thinking exactly that!
It's as if I dreamt it! Lol 😀
Hmmm... Im thinking its because it wasn't a registered group ride as it were?
Not "KISS" or whatever just called "Chase of Truth - D Group" so you dont get to see the results on ZPower?? A guess really.
So I've done 2 races, but on ZP it says I've got 2 ZP results and only 1 strava result. Could this be that after my last race where I did the 1 lap race I carried on riding for a bit to warm down and didn't save the ride until after the warm down. So maybe the race and strava didn't match or it wasn't on strava when they did the initial scan. Would that be why?