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unlucky nath - you could've come in & kicked my arse round the 6.45 to sorelegs central 😀
Ha I tried to get out of work on time but didn’t happen!!
I just won the WBR race, almost lost it to a cat B rider though, I was racing very stupidly and doing a lot of pulling everyone as I didn’t have the legs or inclination to try and get away 😆
https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=12889
Great result nath, that must have been a close finish.
Scaredypants - nice result as that looked a fast race judging by the stats.
Cheers, pretty much a best for me
Still a bit disappointed though - was just congratulating myself for still being in a buunch of only about half a dozen, when suddenly I wasn't any more. It's like I losa all concentration; don't really remember seeing them go, just seeing them gone 🙄
Ended up riding a lap and a half with 1 other rider but for once I seemed better on the rises than him so on the last lap I had a go and dropped him by 3-4 seconds. Rode it in for the place
Too close! I did far too work as the numbers show 😆
Nice race scardey, where you racing when I joined you? You left me either way...
sorry nath, didn't see you join us at all - I dropped in on you after my race but wasn't even on the bike at the time, just followed you to see if you were still racing but you were just bimbling with CH at the time
Well done Golfchic!
And the rest of you heroes too 🙂
I do miss the freedom to do a weekly Zwift race but Trainerroad has just added 15w back on my ftp in 4 weeks so I'm loathe to mix it up too much.
We should pick a big feature race every couple of weeks that we all commit to for a proper Zwift race write-up bonanza 😀
There are some MASSIVE fields for some of these races now - 60 in cat B for the 8.00 tonight. You could hide/lose a lot of STWers in there !
I was riding with you for a little while - when I gave you a ride on. To be fair other riders may have been switched off.
How about Thursdays KISS race at 8pm?
What course is it?
Volcano circuit CCW 21m/34km
Crit tactics!!
20:00 KISS Europe Race (22mi / 36 km) 36.2km 7 laps Volcano Crit CCW on the listing
OR
KISS Europe Race (22mi / 36 km) Thu Oct 5th 2017 20:00
KISS 4 Lap Watopia Hilly from ramp
when you open up the race link
(I'm oot either way - single parent for the next couple of days so ferrying kids round the place)
CH, what are you doing on trainerroad to get gains like that ?
Hmm. Will it be a good replacement for 5x8min @ 318w ?? Very tempting......
Sustained Power Build (Mid Volume). My pre-block FTP test was a bit cack so I set it to 300w (tested at 296) and it's now 311. In fact, I think it's slightly higher as my pacing was conservative.
I feel like i have gone up a notch in fitness which i would like to test out in the real world but gosh the weather has been bloody awful for nearly 2 weeks. Its been windy most days and when it hasnt we have had torrential rain, after all this zwifting i am ready for fresh air and not fan air. Weather forecast all this week is strong winds so i think i might try a zwift race everyday and see how tiredness affects results.
wow some great results there, well done all!
I was chuffed to manage a PB up Boxhill riding solo (to be fair it was only the 5th time I had done it so still plenty of room for improvement), then I read what Blader did in his race - twice... my word. 😯
Been out of the thread for a while, sorry chaps! Real life stuff, you know how it is.Some great reading in the last few pages must catch up properly.
Got a cadence sensor from China turn up yesterday. £10 delivered and works great anyone interested I'll post up some pics etc.
Going to go the 40k or 112k challenge next. Yeah,I know I won't win the bike but still good motivation! 🙂
I'm up for Thurs @ 8pm this week if others are.
Mrs Weeksy is away and my lad is at Cubs, but someone else is picking him up this week, so i can make it.
Fasting day again today, it's only 7am and i'm struggling lol.
I’m going to try and make Tuesday & Thursday races and Sunday group rides.
Only problem I find is that at 8pm I just want to chill out, sitting on a bike at race pace doesn’t appeal. Need to try and figure out a plan to make my energy peak at 8pm without sugar & carbs.
On a side note I’ve comitted to being the official sweeper on Sundays rides - this will get me out of bed on time 😆 I’m going to stop banging on about it but will create a weekly invites on Strava for it and Thursday night races.
Just joined zwift last week and doing the free trail it ends tomoz but I'm sold...it's great.i did 3 rides...but then I came down with a bit o man flu over the weekend.
Looking forward to joining you guys in the racing...boxhill is my local so it'll be nice to see how they've made it look.
It seems in the free trail all you can do is watopia...which is great ...but I want to race...lol
Anyway I got my hand on the full bells and whistles wahoo kickr v2 and made a perminate set up in my garage....I'll be ready to ride come Friday......you can't miss me...illl probably be last..ha ha ha
Nothing wrong with being last mate 🙂 MAny of us started at the back end of D races, that's just how it is. Even some of the quicker lads now, started at the lower ends.
I got well and truely destroyed in the first D race... out the back, boom !
cheeky - you go wherever the system defaults to ... unless you use zwifthacks (I assume it'll work with the trial). Bear in mind, there's nobody else around if you go to London on a watopia day - and the system stays set at your choice after you shut down zwift, so next time you fire up there'll be nobody around again unless zwift has moved to your choice by chance
Did the AHDR ride, was a 2.5 ride, all was going lovely, then my laptop hung ! Not a zwift/trainer issue though so i'm OK, i think it was a work based App that hung it.... i carried on riding and hoping it would register, but came back 1m30 off the group ! bummer.
Did another 20 mins and caught a few, helped a few, then bailed as today wasn't planning on being a crazy due to the 5-2 dieting. So i'm happy enough and should have legs for the 8pm tomorrow now 🙂
Just got my bluetooth heart rate belt and i cant seem to connect it to zwift. I have connected to my strava app on my phone so i know the belt is transmitting. I am currently trying to pair just the belt on zwift whilst sat in the lounge but it just doesnt see the device, i have connected successfully on my ipad in the bluetooth settings but zwift just cant see it, any ideas?
I don't know much about 'dis shit but bluetooth only pairs with one thing at a time, doesn't it ?
Might your strap still be paired to phone/ipad ?
zwift on the PC? doesn't support direct bluetooth connections, you need to use the zwift mobile link app as a bridge.
Jambo i am doing this all on an ipad and i have closed down all connections on my phone. I put a new battery in and it connected to strava on my mobile straight away (alarmingly i was sitting down and my hr was 110).,i have turned my phone off but zwift on ipad sees nothing. According to instructions the hr belt works with strava,wahoo,endomondo,runkeeper and various other apps so i dont see why zwift would be any different to those.
EDIT: As the saying goes 17th times a charm, it has just started working and i am not sure why.
does it work with those apps on the ipad? older ipads didnt have bluetooth LE.
I wonder if scaredypants was right, i think my ipad was connected to it so i selected forget this device and checked zwift again and it was there and thankfully my hr was registering 59bpm which sounds more like it seen as i am sitting on the sofa.
I can now safely do the wbr race this morning without dq’ing and avoid another 2 laps of box hill on evr race.
Arses
"My lad isn't going to Cubs tomorrow so i can't pick yours up..."
Grrrrr.
That's me missing the 8pm race then.
Howdy folks...long time lurker here who finally took the plunge and entered into the SZR C race tonight after trying a few Team Italy ones.
Wow 140 people at the start, one massive lead group was formed and finally understood what virtual drafting is all about (the Team Italy rides are normally only 10 or so riders). Great buzz and managed to hang on until the end, even sprint into the lead for a while but couldn't hold the final 200m.
On Zwiftpower though, I am DQ'd because I'm exceeding category limits. Find that somewhat strange when the winner completed the race 14 seconds faster than me...or is the 95% power considered when DQ'ing riders? (came in at 3.22/kg)
I tried to do that one, but Zwift didn't start in time. Ended up in front of it, hopped into the leading C pack, rode with them for a bit, took a different turn, got caught by the leading B pack, rode with them for 15km, took a different turn and finished.
I was putting out more w/kg than those around me (only 67kg) but was fine in the packs... but the speed of the first groups at the start would have been a problem.
I think I need something hilly. Enjoyed the practice though.
I believe sir is correct - even just a few kg below the opposition and you're hard to race (I "outclimbed" a guy in a flat London race the other day and he was only 4kg more than me)I think I need something hilly
(oooh, just thought, maybe he was on a dumb trainer ?)
Cosmokramer- yep, you went over the power boundary. The thing about Cats is that the rule is FTP/kg but the enforcement is based on your race performance so they are already being generous 🙂
Hopefully you all should have all received my spam earlier (strava invites).
Given the fact I’ve literally just got in from work (having been there since 9am) I’m not too hopeful yet that I can make tomorrow nights race either! I’m also knackered, my recovery times seem to have doubled with my protein intake slash...even commuting seems to be taking its toll. It’s only because I’m a stubborn bugger that I won the other nights race lol.
Got your spam nathb, evening rides are difficult for me due to kids bedtime so pretty certain i wont be able to make it.
sorry, me neither for tomorrow (might do the 08.05 3 hilly laps if some more folk sign up to it, only 10 in total just now - it won't be pretty if I do; I'm not a hills man 😯 )
I'm debating the 9.30am Volcano race this morning. Although i went to bed right up for it, but woke up thinking "errrrm, not sure i can face the flat out intensity" LOL
Well there's a big field for the 9.30 so i better get my legs together and get the passion going. Target at the moment is really just to finish !
Well i guess we need to post up about the disasters as well as the good days.
KISS C 7 laps volcano CCW.
Used to be my favourite layout this one. Race started HARD.... the new position in the race icon jobbie is useful, it told me there was 22 of us in the group and we were flying, everywhere i looked was 4.0wkg ! 1/2 warm uoo lap done and going OK, then onto the laps proper, first one went well, but damn it was hard. The legs were struggling and the HR WAS 172.... OUCH ! That's over and above my paygrade to sustain !.... Laptime 5:43, new PR ! Seriously ! WTF.... hhhahahahaa.
I then went downhill and stuck in a 6:13 with a smaller group off the back of the fast lads....
I then bailed.... Legs and heart were not there today.
🙁
Nowt wrong with a short blast weeksy (unless you REALLY need to rest up)
The short climbs on that ciruit make it harder than it looks, I think
(looking like I might make the 20.00 show after all - life got the better of me for this morning's potential ride and I fancy a [s]bloody good kicking from some skinny whippets[/s] bit of a ride)
I'm ok with it, looking at my Strava, both my first 2 laps were my fastest EVER ! So it was really going to go wrong after that. I think the fact i was on the 29er takes off about 5% too based upon previous months riding.
My biggest issue was that i didn't really get a chance to settle, i didn't drop below about 170bpm, whereas on London/Watopia you get a chance to drop into the 160-165 to recover a bit...
Good luck tonight !
5:38 according to https://www.strava.com/segments/14032426
Nice!
Who's "PrinceLeonThethirdDukeofUZbekiSTaNalsod'kAtGlanDz Smith."??
From the perspective of someone who can find time for the turbo, but isn't always able to leave the house.
I think I get this!