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Besides, I'm Team TFC innit
Like that then hey! I'm going to set the boys on you next time 😆
The World Championship TTT event is coming up soon, it's one of the biggest races and organised by TFC's Tam Burns. STW should submit some teams.
Sadly I'm busy for it as usual.
Weeksy- I've spent a fortune on TFC kits- I'm not changing now 😆
Maybe I’ve got my bias cap on, and this was my first ever group ride, but the ride leader was very keen on keeping everyone together. Even if it meant slowing everyone down he did it. Anyway I’ll be sending out a Zwift group invite, it was great to see some STWs there last Sunday.
As for winning A cat, ha that’s not going to happen anytime soon! Someone else is going to have to take the lead on that one.
The World Championship TTT event is coming up soon, it's one of the biggest races and organised by TFC's Tam Burns. STW should submit some teams.
When's that? What's the format? Drafting team style?
I've been trying to do high cadence sprints a couple of times a week to get a bit of power back and try to break my diesel engine ways of pushing 70RPM everywhere.
Just on this, is there a cadence one should be aiming for? 90-110rpm seems to be where I end up by default. I've got more gears on my bike than I know what to do with. I only used 2 or 3 in my last race.
BTW great result muggo!
I'm 90-100 personally, usually 92-94
On today's flat race I used 3 gears. Out of them 3, the middle was 95% of the race, then drop 1 for the small hill and the harder one for last km
https://thomasburns61.wixsite.com/team-worlds-2017
Yep, Team Time Trial so would havd to be on a road bike in game to get the drafting. Not sure how they manage the starts with the event module- prob mentions it in the link.
Ive always thought cadence is personal... or at least situational
Mine varies dramatically, if I’m tired it’s 70-80, long Sunday cycle is 75-85 and a crit race is normally around 95.
I’m around the 70-80rpm mark. I tend to just mash the biggest gear all the way round. Very rarely shift up unless it’s on a very long climb. Might explain why my knees are shot 🙂
Well results still haven't been finalised, I'm getting sick of looking now tbh. Did workout number 7 today of zwift academy, which after the race Saturday and an outdoors ride sunday, nigh on killed me! Have two days of rest, complete rest tomorrow, very easy spin Wednesday and then Thursday its 3 minute critical power test and the completion of the academy!
Good to know re cadence. I have three chain rings on the front and have only ever used the middle one (that might have been a mistake up watopia mountain...).
Golfchick, nice work re the academy. Have you found it worthwhile?
Well done muggo, fantastic result. Thats it now you are going to become a trophy chaser.
Weeksy - no way is he 107kg looking at that picture. What does he gain though by adding weight, i thought that would slow you down or is he doing it so he always falls under cat limit?
As for cadence i always aim for 90rpm but on hills i always ramp it up to closer to 100 or drop a gear and go to near 110.
I have a suspicion that they'll be releasing a new extension to Watopia in the next week or so. Looking at the schedule there's a full week+ of Watopia, which they tend to do when they add something new. I'm sure I saw an interview with a guy from Zwift saying that they would be adding an extension in October, and another later in the year.
What do we think, another mountain? Loop the loop? DH track down from the peak?
that was me! First race back this season, not lost as much fitness over the summer as I'd feared!A podium in C for stw too!
Surprised to get 3rd as I was hanging onto a group with Bs and fast Cs until they dropped me on the penultimate climb and I rode solo for the last lap. Most of the Cs in front of me got bumped up though so ended up placing well! 🙂 (Why don't people just enter the higher category in the first place?!)
Weeksy - no way is he 107kg looking at that picture. What does he gain though by adding weight, i thought that would slow you down or is he doing it so he always falls under cat limit?
That can be my only guess.
Some serious geekery to be had here 😯
[url= http://www.zwiftrankings.com ]Cycligent virtual rankings[/url]
muggomagic - Member
Some serious geekery to be had hereCycligent virtual rankings
The only issues i have with CVR is that it doesn't allow for downturns in form, fitness, weight etc.
Getting a DNF can cost you 30 points+ in the rankings, which even when at my best i was getting 5-10 points for winning C races.
Yesterdays race i thoguht i performed really well, tried proper hard, but i still got -2 points on the rankings. LOL.
However due to DNFs lately i'm already down about 60 points on my best.
That’s the thing though, it’s algorithms assign you a “where the rider should finish given his/her rankings and the competition”, if you come below that then you lose points, it ignores Zwifts race cats as it uses its own divisions.
It’s not perfect but your points should reflect where you’re at in terms of fitness/the rest of the riders.
I think the main flaw with it is the DNF system. For instance if a load of riders that have more points than you drop out (DNF) then their points they brought to the race are up for grabs. Which is an artificial inflation of your own points if you finish higher than expected, which you now will.
Definitely don’t work with numbers all day 😆
I am currently 10th in div 2 with 1328, do you have to win the division to be promoted or just pass a certain point level?
There’s a minimum points to get up to the next division. You’ll find that number somewhere, I can’t remember where. It’s constantly changing though as it’s based of a percentile of riders allowed in that category.
Promotions happen at the end of the month. On your profile you should find a “division forecast”, I was once forecast to move up to elite, probably division 2 now 😆
All info is here: http://www.zwiftrankings.com/vcr/client/help/help-overview
Happy to translate 🙂
Weeksy- another reason why racing isn't good training 😉
You can't have it both ways 😀 Your points and rankings reflect your form so either don't race until your form is back to your best or just chalk it up to experience. Your points and rankings reflect your position vrs the rest of Zwift so just because you slacked off for a few weeks, you can't expect everyone else to wait for you 😆
It's actually a great motivator because you are always aiming to beat your last relative performance.
WTF have I done to myself? Why did I even look at CVR? I'm going to spend my working day looking at how it works.
Agreed CH!
I really like it and hope Zwift will one day allow the organiser to select which cat ranking for the race (zwiftpower a-d or CVRs E-10).
E-10 with rider numbers would make a much closer race, providing there’s a good number of riders in the race.
Whenever I go on that website I’m reminded of the most painful fail of a race I ever took part in on Zwift 😆
Completed my first event last night, the 1905 WBR 4 Lap Flat Race around London and can see where the addiction comes from now with these things. It would seem that race tactics need to be thought about a lot more than I realised as I can't help but feel I did a lot more time on the front of our group than others.
Why on the ZwiftPower pages did it change the 2 main competitors in our little groups category ranking from D to C but left me in Cat D with the same or better finishing time?
People are upped in Cat due to their W/KG finishing result, if they post more than 2.5w/kg they'll either get a DQ or an upgrade, depends on the organiser.
I spent VERY little time at the front of my group yesterday, my average was 0.5w/kg less than the guys around me....Sadly most of them still out sprintered me !
wow, thanks Weeksy. Looks like I avoided the bump by coming in at 2.49 w.kg, I knew all those pizzas would pay off.
Anyone tried the new mobile link app yet? Looks kinda handy.
jam bo - Member
Anyone tried the new mobile link app yet? Looks kinda handy.
Elaborate ?
I use the zwift mobile link app on my telephone, dunno if it is new or not. Saves mucking around with the keyboard once the session is running but since I have only done 3 runs in Zwift I am not sure if it is essential or not yet.
[quote=weeksy ]jam bo - Member
Anyone tried the new mobile link app yet? Looks kinda handy.
Elaborate ?
https://www.smartbiketrainers.com/zwift-updates-mobile-link-app-maps-new-messaging-feature-3207
Not got the update. Looks like they've added maps and chat threads. Have to set it up later.
i can't use the mobile function anyway as my phone does music stuff while Zwifting via Bluetooth
yeah you can. i run mobile link to connect my bluetooth sensors through to Zwift on my laptop, while listening to music over wifi via airpods.
while listening to music over wifi via airpods.
You've lost me there.. LOL. I have a generic Bluetooth speaker, don't know if that helps or is an issue.
the music streams onto my phone over wifi, and then into my ears via bluetooth connection to my headphones. unless you are running a phone from the dark ages you should be able to run mobile link as well.
I have to because my power meter on my kurt is bluetooth only and zwift doesnt support bluetooth sensors natively on windows but actually its pretty robust & reliable.
Interesting race this morning on EVR,advertised as 29.8km but at the start line its actually 41km, i knew this was gonna hurt. It was a very big field in cat B so i knew it was going to be difficult to podium with 2 laps of box hill. Anyway enough excuses, was in the lead group after a frantic start and we got to box hill and i think there were about 15-20 of us so pumped myself up to do a 7 minute climb. The field soon got ripped apart and there were just 8 of us at the front and it didnt seem a brutally hard pace so managed to save my legs a bit but we still went up in 7:20 which is pretty fast. Spent the next lap trying not to do too much before box hill and prepared for a fast one as i thought somebody might go for it. Box hill loomed and i reckon we were going to go up it quicker this time even after 31km of racing. Up we went at quite a pace and a couple went off the front 6 of us were fairly bunched but that soon broke up and we were down to three of us and we caught one of the front runners. Went over the top of box hill in 7:18 so marginally quicker, i put a massive burst up that little riser before the descent which left just me and 2 others. It was going to be a sprint finish so i was in trouble and by the looks of it we were vying for 2nd and 3rd, they both went early and had huge sprints which left me for dead but i gunned it but the line just came too soon. I reckon i missed podium by a second or two and ended up 5 mins behind tim cartwright so not too shabby for a bloke in his mid 40’s.
Awesome! Well done 🙂
Looks like i got bronze, lead bloke got dq’d which is no surprise as he was pulling close to 6w/kg all the way up box hill on lap 2 although to be fair his weight was only 58kg!
By eck that's impressive !
i quite like the rider ranking from the latest update, seems a good idea and will hopefully negate those rides when you think you are not in a chance for a trophy only to realise you let somebody through to take it.
I think its a sign that my legs are a bit tired from zwift racing as i just got massive cramp attack whilst attempting to recline my lazy boy chair 😳
Ah ha results finally been finalised. I managed 4th in the A category it seems. Three people got bumped from B to A's. Pretty happy with that result, was sure I was lower down the rankings than that but it might of been the Hilly Loop leader board that I looked at. I didnt seen the race standings after I hit the line as I was too busy with my eyes shut trying to breathe!
In terms of zwift academy, seeing as before it started I hadn't bothered with any workouts or group rides, rather choosing to freeride because I naturally push myself I've found it both good and bad. I've loved doing the group rides because of there being so many woman and good women at that! Nice to be sociable with them and see just where abouts you stand in the rankings of riding on there really. The workouts have been hard work but in a I pushed myself way, I've had a few signal dropouts which have lost me 2 stars over all the workouts so far which has pissed me off no end. I only lost one genuine star and thats because they reckoned we could do 24 reps at 600odd watts, 15seconds on 15 seconds off.....as if! On the flipside, in order to make sure I'm properly rested and have the time to do everything I've been riding indoors more than out even though the conditions on some days have been really good enough to go outside. I'll definitely do it again next year, just knowing I'll achieve it is good even aside of the competition!
Golfchick, Well done on the cat A result, thats very good indeed.
Nice results there!!
I’m attemptig to do the 7:20 WBR Race, anyone joining? It’s only 6.3 miles. Treating it like a mini ftp test lol