So went to do stage 3 tour of NY at 6:00am set up, already to go tablet is at 70%.
Set off as usual ended up on my own (at the minute my goal is to finish each race and not be last, can just about hold 2w/kg but dragging +100kg up hill is not speedy).
Getting close to half way and settling down to my pace and 175th out of 205. Then notice tablet is down to 12%, bigger, nip back in the house to get a charger plugged in then it say 3% and turns off. Arse!
So got the charger that came with the tablet but it was too late zwift had crashed and kicked me out the ride.
Bloody annoying, now got to do the ride again today or give up the tour.
Typical race for me i guess... Happy enough but the usual story.
Went off at the normal 500w kick, settling into 400w about 15s into it and then seeing where it put me. Surprisingly it put me right next to an STWer, eemy ! said hello 🙂
Then it settled down a bit for the next 2-3km and i was happy within the lead group... Right up until the first kick up. Usual story, the lead A's all hit the big power button and me and several others were left floundering. I was OK with that as i knew it was a short race, so i grabbed a wheel and we got on with it... The guy i was with though was not up for doing any work at all and sat on my wheel. It was about then the group behind closed in on us... 12, 11, 10... Next thing 5 of them had us caught.... OK, i can live with that... So we're sitting in about 17th - 22nd or so overall.... We then caught the other bloke ahead who i was hoping to catch, i think we were now a 9 strong group. The next group behind wasn't closing so was just a question of hanging on.
Sadly 3 of them kicked off on the 2nd time up the hill and i couldn't respond.... So ended up being 6-7 of us in our group about 4s behind them... I thought we would catch them back up but it didn't happen, into the last 3km they had about 12s on our group. I knew this sector was fairly flat so was just a question of keeping out of the wind and finding some HR and legs now.... about 1km out my man caught a nice draft and saw me suddenly surfing to the front... Not what i wanted at all... So eased off for 2s and then caught the power again, it worked well as i dropped into 3rd in the group of 7, but was on the power and holding the wheel.... 300m out we all kicked for it, i seemed to do OK and ended up 3rd of the group and happy.... worked hard.
Would be nice if everyone signed up to Zwiftpower as i liked seeing all the racers, but it's about 50% at best in races that end up in the final results sadly.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=97515
Overall, happy and fun.
Surprisingly it put me right next to an STWer, eemy ! said hello
Apologies Weeksy. I use the laptop and have switched off all the chat messages etc.... Hardly ever even look at the Zwift companion app on the phone.
I enjoyed the race even though it wasn't the course I thought it was on - at the very start I was expecting us to turn left, but we turned right. I then thought we would go round that little hilly loop before heading back to the start line and I was fully expecting to get dropped there. But we didn't go that way and I managed to hang on to the front group all the way to the end. Got to say, it was all going pretty well, but then I put in an effort to get up a slight rise, found myself on the front, so backed off just as all the other buggers started to accelerate for the finish. I could have been a contender!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just out of interest, how did you say hello while boshing out 400w ?
Was early on. My HR hadn't hit the point of no return by then.
typing, though ? I'm impressed
18:00 Stage 3 TONY last night, only decided to do it with about 10 minutes to go, jumped on, hammered the first couple of minutes to get in a decent group, hung on as long as i could, dropped back through tbe groups trying to hold on, finally settled i to a group of about 10 in 60th ish out of 540 or so, worked hard to stay with them at points, 2 small rises at the end with a downhill finishes, 1st one i ended up 5 metres ahead, did the same on the second and decided to go long for the finish, ended up 3/10 in the group, 12 hour shift today, so a day off for the legs
Finally jumped on the Zwift bandwagon in an attempt to get a bit of motivation and fitness back. Got one of the Tacx Flux's on offer from Halfords which didn't work out too bad with AA discount and various bits of cashback stacking.
Straight in with the short FTP.. pretty woeful effort but it's been months since I've been on my road bike and found it a bit tricky to gauge the effort. Will probably just trial a few just rides and races this week before doing the FTP Builder plan (anyone done it?).
Signed up for ZwiftPower.. am I right in thinking you have to do an actual race (rather than a workout) before you can add yourself to a group?
am I right in thinking you have to do an actual race (rather than a workout) before you can add yourself to a group?
No idea sorry... been that long since i needed to do the team stuff, completely forgotten
Quick question, anyone on here using a rocker plate? I'm kind of intrigued both from the point of view of ride comfort and potentially reducing stresses on the frame, particularly the rear dropouts.
I'm still baffled by New York. It all the looks the same to me, well, at least the ground level stuff all looks alike and the above ground level wannabe Bladerunner stuff all looks alike too. I can imagine that racing there is slightly baffling in terms of predicting gradients etc.
NY isn't too bad for racing as you kinda get to know the ground level layouts fairly quickly, especially if like me you're a bit of a 1 trick pony. So for example i know the 6 train reverse has a steep 6-9% finish, which makes it a no go for me.... but the standard way round is perfect for me.... the LaGuardia works fine for me. The park perimiter has a longer climb on it which isn't hard, but the lightweights kill me on it...
I've stayed away from the sky routes as they obviously go up too much for me. That said, i did OK on the Watopia Jungle route recently which has the climb up.
If i'm just cruising round on the NY layout though and take a wring turn i have no idea where i am at all !
BWD, I have a rocker. Bought it for exactly the reasons you suggest (not so much "comfort", riding with a fixed frame just felt weird to me)
Got it from https://www.bikeacces.com/ but I reckon it'd be really easy to make one (I actually think theirs is almost too complicated with the bladders and I've essentially replaced them by shoving some lengths of pool-noodle in-between the plates (bladders are still there but it felt undamped with just them and I was wanting to go above their recommended max pressures - which was beginning to deform the (plywood?) top plate)
I like it. Recently tried mine again without it and that confirmed for me that I wanted to keep it.
CVR have just launched a new product: www.cvrcade.com
Going to download it later and give it a whirl, there’s literally 0 info out there at the moment other than you have your own island and can create/customise the road?? It looks like Zwift has met minecraft...
Curious to hear your thoughts Nath.
BWD, I have a rocker. Bought it for exactly the reasons you suggest (not so much “comfort”, riding with a fixed frame just felt weird to me)
Cheers for the input, appreciated. I'm quite bad at DIY, but I have mates who are vaguely competent and might be persuaded with beer and flattery 🙂
first race on NYC last night WBR 1 Lap Lady Liberty Hilly Race, lost two of the little whippets on the steep section of the climb, even with a feather. 54kg vs 76kg going up that hill there was only going to be one winner. https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=97669
I'm coming to the realisation that I'm going to have to drop some weight to pump the W/KG rather than chasing FTP and stuffing my face like I have for a while. 375w avg was not my happy place.
Not sure how i feel about the CVRcade announcement, I've not really had a weekly zwift goal like I used to on a Tuesday night, I'd often drop an outside ride so I didn't miss my race!
I’m coming to the realisation that I’m going to have to drop some weight to pump the W/KG rather than chasing FTP and stuffing my face like I have for a while. 375w avg was not my happy place
I've come to a similar thought, but without realistically expecting to drop a chunk of weight, it's simply unlikely to happen. I may improve the FTP very slightly over time, maybe with more structure i could improve it more.. But Zwifting is about fun, desire and giving myself a goal and drive to ride more than i would.
Today though is a rest and test of willpower to stay off the bike... Plenty of racing lately so could do with a rest.
375w avg was not my happy place
I'm not all that fond of 275
I'm pretty heavy to say the least but even if I skinnied down to my absolute lightest ever racing weight from when I was training near enough non stop and properly fit/skinny, I'd still only go from my current 2.8 to 3.5 which isn't exactly going to set races on fire. Training and increasing my ftp really is the key
Ref CVRcade I think they'll be looking at a roblox type model where users create the content for people to use - that will have huge savings over zwift's business model - smart move. Obviously the quality of the worlds will be more variable but I reckon there will be some really good creations. Interesting times - it's about right for someone to come along and challenge zwift even if not an exact match
10:00 TONY Stage 4 - bored of New York now, the hills are sods for us heavier lads - 3 times up bloody lady liberty hill or New york kom reverse whatever its called in 22km, still nice trophy next to my 1 minute power on ZP - 46/180 in the results but there was 500+ on zwift and i was in 70th or so
Sounds like some good racing been going on over the last week or so.
I'm out for my first NY outing tonight in the 20:05 KISS race (6 laps on The 6 train). Live commentary on this one again so going to see if I can get a mention :D.
Weight wise dropping from my current 78KG (ha not likely after a week on holiday) to target 75KG would only give me a 0.12 W/kg improvement so got no choice, I'm going to have to chase FTP increases.
I did a race with the (not really very at all) crazy belgians earlier on - Nice big field (50 or so in B). I'd never heard of the route and still don't really know where we went ("1 lap" race but I swear we passed the finish line on Watopia 3 times before climbing the bloody volcano
Now Belgium's largely flat, right ? How come a massive bunch of them took 45 seconds out of me up there? (fair enough, one or two were skinny but most seemed to be actual person-sized)
So I thought I would try out the new wheel off turbo that Mrs Farmer has been using for the past couple of months. Realised my 25 free kms would run out tomorrow so jumped straight in for a hill-climb workout in ERG mode. Couple of things I noticed...
1. As mentioned above, the New York course is very samey. I didn't actually find myself looking at the scenery at all and have no idea where I went (seems we did 2 and a half complete laps of the park!)
2. The trainer is bloody quiet but the power reading seems much less stable than the old wheel on trainer. It was up and down like a whores drawers
3. I got a Ride On from Scaredypants, though I never saw him out there to give one back to. How does that work?
4. It still hurts. Will use up my November miles next week and see how the weather develops before commiting to my winter subscription.
3. I got a Ride On from Scaredypants, though I never saw him out there to give one back to. How does that work?
If you have the app you can see riders you're following (in my case that's just anyone with stw in their name) and do it without being logged in. I think I was actually on there when I did you but internet kept dropping out so I quit after a couple of minutes & went on later for a different event.
(weeksy especially but also Leeroy get me on a regular basis - I think weeksy has a team of henchmen watching screens all day & night 🙂 )
... and change your power setting to every 3 secs in zwift, see if that improves it
LOL i just give them when checking what events i'm doing that day, i often base that upon how many riders are in the event so i check that every now and again.
Looks like today is the 15:05 4 laps of Volcano CCW. Not my ideal layout, but fairly high up my list of preferences. Nothing else really jumping out at me today as i'm in the office until 2ish.
Legs feeling heavy after a rest day.... But we'll give it a go anyway.
Did not go well last night. First impressions of NY not favourable at the moment. Dispite being billed as flat there seemed to be a lot of long draggy climbs. I got spat out the back on lap 3 I think along with four others. We were noticeable slower than the main group and got caught by the B's with just under one lap to go. Only good point for me was that I produced a decent output for the uphill sprint to the finish. ZP seems to have some big gaps in my power output which aren't there on Strava. Feeling a bit off colour which probably didn't help.
Noticed tootallpaul floating around while I was warming up.
Good race that...settled into the 2nd main group, but i expect group 1 then split a bit....
Spent the whole race trying my best to hide in there, not pushing hard and only kicking on for the sections i really need to.
Coming towards the line i kicked early to try and catch them off guard.... almost worked but i lost some places on the run up to the line... 29/75 overall
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=98378
Enjoyed it though.
Not Zwifted since July! Pah! Need to get Mojo back
Dread to think what my FTP is now or where I'd place
Sneaky little bronze there weeksy 👏.
Sneaky little bronze there weeksy .
- must've been my stealthy ride-on !
Found time to do 5 laps of the volcano. Small field so was feeling good about it. That's was until my legs made themselves known. The a/b group was together for the whole race. Myself and a few As putting attacks in but either no one went with it or the were closed down quickly. My issue wasn't making the initial break, I couldn't sustain the power after last night's effort and quickly got collected. Also miss timed the sprint and ended up a few seconds back in a race I could have won.
Back to rocker boards. Have much give do these have? My turbo is currently on top of two layers of carpet and underlay and already has a fair bit of side to side movement. Wondering if it's worth looking at rockers as most Ive seen pictures of are on hard floors.
And there we have it ladies and gentlemen, first GOLD since getting the Direto. WBR 3 Laps Flat Race
First two laps were absolutely brutal and I was sure I was going out the back on a couple of occasions. Barely dropped out of the red the whole race, recovery was short and sparse. Average HR was at 180 and maxxed out at 203, first time i've broken that barrier since I came down with some lurgy about 3 months ago.
Feels like i'm (nearly) back somewhere I can progress from. Alright, wasn't the strongest field but gold is a gold 😉
Wow. That's some impressive numbers ! Well done indeed !
That'll teach me to feel positive. Woken up with a cold.
Nice work Scaled.
I don't understand the TONY. I thought it would be an entirely new course around New York, but it just seems to be loops of existing zwift courses. So i entered one the other day, started out in 600ish position out of 650ish, then started jumping up through the ranks to get to 1st out of 650ish but I only ever saw two other riders, those being the ones I was riding with. Then my position dropped down to about 80ish but again I never saw more than those two riders. Dropped out after a lap because it was pretty dull.
Struggling with it today... Can't feel the desire to race today, but it's lashing down outside so not fancying that either.
I was going to try a longer non-race ride today, maybe up Alp du Zwift (want the Tron, only 44,000m to go!). Instead might get the rare chance for a IRL ride.
16:00 tour of New York.
Was going well for me then suddenly someone 20 seconds behind ended up a minute in front without passing me.
The with 5k to go the distance to go numbers started to rise and kept rising. At 22k there was 9k to go and it said i was 2/502 by which point i threw the toys out of the pram and went inside.
As i have mentioned before, either NY is glitchy or Zwift cant accomodate large fields. There have been lots of people with issues lately and its always NY but that could just be because thats all we have had lately.
Rode the New York course today, LaGuardia loop I think, didn’t like it at all. The hills drag and the scenery is average. Doesn’t come close to Innsbuck which I adored.
First workout yesterday and then first race tonight (Tour of New York S5).. and first experience of the hills! Added another 20W to last week's initial FTP - I obviously wasn't trying hard enough lol!
Did the 10am stage 5 - started late as i couldnt get my hrm to sync, then saw id not plugged in the ant+ stick, should trade in the garmin one for a wahoo then i can just use Bluetooth - said i was 567th out of 570 and that number never changed despite working through the back of the field, ZP has me at 79/234
did the 11am one as well 68/251
1 minute power best up that ramp to the finish, quite like that one
Arghhhhhhh
Dragged myself into the garage for Kiss C at 8pm. Warmed up and raring to battle for 27th place and it crashed with 30seconds to go. Too late to restart the app.
Seems pretty shit at the moment - second race in a row that I've had all other riders disappear on me multiple times. Not sure if it's my end or theirs but bloody annoying either way
Yep it's a right pain, I'm guessing it's a problem at their end. Managed a sufferfest vid instead but was looking forward to a race. I'd been getting into but missed last week with a sore throat.
Has anyone tried the Zwift running side? We've already got a treadmill so i've just ordered a foot pod to give it a whirl.
My wife's tried it a couple of times, seems to work ok but not particularly exciting. There's also no decent events, just some group jogs. Unless I'm missing something (very much a zwift beginner).
13:20 WBR 5 Laps LaGuardia Loop Reverse, was billed as 32.5km but was only 16.61 - i guess the 32km is 10 laps? dunno, lined up thinking it was longer, went out hard with the front group, through the lead out, then says 14km 1/5 laps remaining, decide to stick at the front as long as i could, which ended up being the whole race, finished 5/17 in B, 4 seconds of Bronze and only 8 seconds off the top A, great race, perhaps one of the best ive had - 2w increase on FTP from 287-289w was a nice bonus,
due to being a short race, i decided to do the 14:10 ToNY - decent 2nd group up the front again, lost 1 rider who escaped midway through lap 2, tried to get away myself with 5km ish to go, got reeled in with 3 to go, out of a group of 11 - 7 of us got the exact same time with the others 1/2 seconds behind, 12/75 on ZP
Nice dirty! Well done buddy.
Quite a few of us on last night, I clocked at least Scaled (holding the KOM jersey at 1:44 as I was warming down! Nice work.) and Scaredypants.
I was intending to do a lower intensity long ride as my legs were stiff from two runs in the previous days. However the WBR 3 sisters event caught my eye as a best of both option. Looking back from last time I did that race my average HR was quite a bit lower than for shorter CRITs. I've been puzzling for a the last week why my last two events didn't go so well and I think it may have been a saddle height issue. My wife is also using the turbo and I stupidly didn't record the saddle height when setting it up for her. I dropped just over 1cm off last night and it felt much better. Going to be sad and done some proper measurements as a final check.
So back to the race. With two ZADA sanctioned riders with low weights in the signup list I was expecting a fast start and was not disappointed. There were loads of flickering and disappearing riders in the first few minutes. Thankfully that settled down as trying to gauge position was almost impossible. A small bunch at the front disappeared up the KOM like scolded cats. No chance of keeping up there. The rest of the As ended up is a nice little bunch clear of the rest of the field. Strangly the lead group slowed up after the climb and we regrouped not long after descending. It all stayed together nicely till the third corner of the Epic KOM where the group fractured apart into four out front and lots of singles. I dropped back quite bit but manage to catch and stay with another rider for most of the climb. Hard as I tried though I could not seem to manage more than about 20s of pulling before he slipped back past. Really need to just concentrate on doing my own thing up the steep bits.
The lead B seemed to be taking large chunks out of us on the way up (unsurprisingly he got upgraded!). By the radio mast he was just 5s back (having been 45s at one point). I had an aero powerup so dropped this on the flat to reestablish the gap. It seemed to work especially when couple with almost sprints up the slight inclines on the way down. Unfortunately my climbing compaion also had a aero powerup which he dropped on a steeper section. I couldn't stay attached so had to work harder on the way down to stop the gap growing too much with hard sprints up the inclines and decent effort at the bottom to close the gap again. By now I was tired and stiff legs were not happy so I just sat on his wheel. Again we climbed the volcano together and caught another A near the top. Thinking that A might be tired (he had set a PB up the volcano) I tried several attacks on the way down hoping to drop him, but was unsuccessful. Our pace slacked right off as the inevitable sprint approached. Again go the timing 1s too late and they both disappeared. I relaxed at that point and cruised home. I did an extended warm down going slowly both ways over the KOM to get my time over 1:30 and over 1000m of height gain.
I am loving how both the KOM and Volcano feel 'easy' after a trip up the Epic KOM.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=99256
Has any else noticed the new ZP rider comparison stats on the event results page (click more than one pie chart next to rider names).
Great report that 🙂
So I thought I'd finally chip in a ride report after lurking on here for many a day. As usual I jumped into an event last minute when time allowed. That was last nights ZHR hare and hound, it is a handicapped race and as I'm somewhere in between a B and C I decided to take it easy and enter C category. All didn't go to plan though and I had a drop out. I blame my daughter and Netflix! When I finally got back online I was 30 seconds down on the C group on my own. I thought I could work hard and close that but despite turning myself inside out I was slowly losing time. I eventually caught two other C riders and worked well with them for about 5 miles, by this time we were about 1:30 down on the C group and I was watching the B group time gap closing. They caught us with just over 10 miles to go and I just about managed to jump onto them. I felt ok and hung with them until the pace went up with about 4 miles to the finish. By that time we were about 30 seconds down on a group of C riders and the A group about the same behind me. The last 4 miles was survival, the A group flew past and I couldn't jump on. Caught a few B riders and managed to outsprint one who held my wheel for the last 2 miles.
Good training but unfortunately I was disqualified for exceeding 3.2wkg, I knew that was going to be highly likely having spent so long out on my own!
Harvey Mushman on Zwift BTW, thanks for listening!
The lack of people signed up to ZP is getting a bit annoying. A big field today for 5 laps of Watopia flat which i knew i would need to try and hang on to the front A’s. Pace was pretty fast and all the hills and ramps were just torture. Each hill/ramp required about 500w to hang in there but at least there were very few attacks as i think doubledraft nullified that. I knew i wouldnt last as weekend of heavy lifting and diy in small areas had ruined my thigh muscles. I managed to hang on until near the start of the last lap but got caught out by the high tempo and dropped off too far to catch up but my legs were gone anyway. I stuck with 2 other A riders and outsprinted them at the end but i knew 2 B’s had stuck with the group so i thought bronze it is. Results were i ended up with Gold as the 2 lead B’s were dq’d by a long way and only 2 other B’s in the list (26 at the start) and they were over 10 mins behind!
Lyrikal, great race report and well done on the race. I found if you are in between cats then its best to go in to the highest as like everyone else the option of “taking it easy” just never seems to happen when the race is on! This is a similar phenomenon that is known as the “Weeksy affect” where by you announce that you are having a rest day and then later write up a race report coz you couldnt stay off your bike.
Just started the 6 week FTP beginner builder I a hope to get some improvement for Christmas.
Currently about 2w/kg though I have noticed I tend to keep hr at zone 2 (blue?) So will see if things improve.
Back to zwift after a massive layoff on the Kiss D seven laps of the volcano. I have bad memories of this course after the last time I tried it turned into a neverending race and I bailed after ten laps! I knew this race wasn't going to be good when I was ready to throw up after 2 laps, so eased off and solo time trialled to the finish.
Ah well, it's only November, plenty of time to get some fitness back. Onwards and upwards.
Matt
10:45 looks interesting from a 'get my arse handed to me by a who's who of zwift racing' angle.
If I can hang on up the first climb I'll be amazed!
I'm struggling to find an appropriate race today as i'm in the office and on a fasting day.... Which generally means i can't/don't race after 5pm as i need food !
There's the 16:05 but it's a short one and finishes with the hill.... Which because of distance means i'd be a B as i'll exceed the C cat power... So i'm likely to be in the last few rather than the front few.
I may end up doing a gentle cruise ride and saving myself for tomorrow for race instead.
Havent done a race for a couple of weeks now with being away for half term. Was planning on doing one tomorrow night but with the state of my bottom bracket I will make too much noise in the house. New one is on order though so might be able to. If not it will be the weekend before I get back on the horse so to speak!
10:45 looks interesting from a ‘get my arse handed to me by a who’s who of zwift racing’ angle.
If I can hang on up the first climb I’ll be amazed!
Just had a brief consultation with my legs on the windy 5k nursery drop off. They've informed me that they're not actually available at 10:45 today as they've got an all day meeting blocked out for 'REST DAY' that I was keen to ignore.
Raced Sunday and Monday then thought i'd have a nice 2.5w recovery ride last night but signed up to the WBR IMPACT 2.5 because I don't read these things properly. New peak wattage PTM (Post Turbo Muin) of 1.6kw though 🙂
Scaled - i am in the 10:45 race this morning and the A group looks like a fast one, Leanndro is clearly going to win that as he climbs faster on the hills than i can descend them. Its a doubledraft so i am hoping i can hang on to some A riders to see if they can get me a decent placing in a strong B group. My legs are ruined though so this might be one of the races that gets chalked off in the series (best 9 results from 12 races).
Leanndro won the KISS race I did last night. Maybe his legs will be tired (as if).
I got spat out the back of the A group before we even hit half way through lap one last night! My power levels still seemed to be down Vs before half term. Need to check position again as something clearly not quite right. Admittedly I was late getting on the bike and had decided not to ruin my legs early on staying in touch.
After getting dropped I picked up a few other A stragglers and pulled them into a group of about five. We were working well together but the rather large B group was rapid and caught us on lap three. B was moving quite quickly and snapped into two after after hill. I was sleeping and nearly missed jumping into the front group. After that apart from a bit of fun where I blasted off the front with an aero powerup (trying to pull some others with me and split the group) I hide in the pack. Got a feather at the end of lap 5 which I saved for the climb to the line. Mucked up my timing again and didn't use it early enough (was still going as I crossed the linr) but did overhaul most of the group I was in during the sprint. I did get asked to join a team at the end which was cool ;).
Day off work today with our two year old. If she naps going to try a lunchtime low power ride. Need to boost fitness. If time is right will join ignitor group ride.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=99747
Just figuring this all out. Did the Hare and Hounds, Cat C on Sunday but was not on Zwift Power so did not get on the leaderboard. Have now signed up. Tried racing last night but set off and the Kickr gave zero resistance so could not do more than 150 Watts - did not last long. Ended up doing a circuit of NY on my own instead. Will try again tonight. Pointers welcome. Any good series out there. Hare and Hounds seemed decent.
Welcome djflexure. What's your zwift name?
Nixie, are you Aaron?
Or anyone else interested in joining the brt race team?
https://www.brteventz.com/join
I am yes. Thanks for invite. Will take a look.
Hi I'm S Bach STW - signed up for SZR at 18:00 tonight (hopefully back from work in time)
Will look at BRT too
that's a cracking big field there Nixie... Nice one....
Or anyone else interested in joining the brt race team?
I'm STW forever 🙂
That was a fast race on the road to ruins. I was in with Scaled who i think was going really well. The big climb up was torture, i got dropped and i am sure i was averaging 6.1w/kg up there. Will check results later but i think i got 4th in a bunch finish in B.
Edit: that was fast for sure,set at least a dozen pr’s. Bottom of the climb to the bridge i averaged 380w. The full climb to the jungle average was 348w in 5m22s.
Bugger, looks like i've broken the direto.
at 170 RPM in 52x 14 i was doing 80w apparently 😀 resistance has almost completely gone.
Race went slightly better than expected tbh, made it up the first part of the climb but just couldn't hang on to the group over the bridge. Didn't realise PUs were on or i'd have picked up a feather before i got to the start line!
Blader looked like he was bossing the B group though and dragging them round!
Scaled that does seem like it has snapped,is it under warranty still? Did you finish the race? Hard to tell from where i was but it looked like you were still in the main group which was some effort up that climb fella. I saw somebody who was about 2 miles from the finish doing 16.1w/kg,i think my eyes popped out of my head at that point.
sadly i messed up the finish badly,they all went really early so i had to do a big tempo to catch up and when i did i went over the top of them but i was goosed so 3 of them pipped me at the line.
Nice work both looks like it was a hard one.
That doesn't sound good scaled, hope it's sorted quickly.
Google suggests that there was a problem with belt tensioners on the Direto that's a warranty issue. Also, I don't much about Elite trainers, but when my Kickr belt went, the genuine Wahoo replacement was a steep £55. Turns out it's a standard automotive Gates timing belt and I was able to source a replacement for a fiver.
Get onto Elite ASAP and they'll sort out a new pully and belt (assuming it's snapped). There's a facebook group that has multiple failures but probably fairly minor amount compared to the units out there. I opened mine up just before it's first year was up and the belt looked like new.
Won the sprint for 20th in the C race!! Go me 🙂
Can only get better I suppose.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=99987
mid-table mediocrity here - 7th of 13 Bs in a TT
Decent power for me though, so not all bad
(why is there a green pie chart next to me but not anyone else? - I'm nowhere near being DQ for excess watts)
Get onto Elite ASAP and they’ll sort out a new pully and belt (assuming it’s snapped).
Stuff that, I took it back to Halfords and they're swapping it for a new direto 2 at no cost! Result!