Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Good going Forza. !

4:05pm for 1 lap for me. then z2

Watopia flat is way less flat than the other flat courses. Decent little session though. We'll wait and see ZP and rankings result!

Good going Forza. !

4:05pm for 1 lap for me. then z2

Right back at you weeksy - great win!

A lot of it is luck and circumstances at the moment. I'm a pretty tough cookie in short C races, with a power output right near the limit and a good aero profile, I do pretty well in the short ones. If I somehow find another 0.2w/kg I'm actually stuffed as I'll be wallop in the middle of B on them ones.
On longer races and hilly races I'm far lower in C.

Great result there Weeksy, you even had 4 seconds to spare. Very strange results page with all but 2 B riders being upgraded riders.

What do we think of the new ZP format?

Well done Weeksy. Great result.

What about the winner of the A group, Herrmann the Gerrmann? 522W and 6.61W/kg, is that right?

Always hard to know when they don't have an associated Strava profile.

Well done you racers !

I'm still on my training plan - today's was pretty hard, few gentle sprints near the start then coupple of moderat blocks,
then 2 series of 40 seconds at 109% FTP, 20 seconds rest repeated x10
short rest
...and then finished off with 3 minutes at 125%. That was pretty hard and strava seems to think that's quite a lot more than I've bothered my arse to do before today

In other news - something odd going on in zwift. I hardly ever watch those Nathan Guerra streams but clicked an email accidentally and so watched for a bit. Looked like new sections but also the race (KISS 8pm I assume) went absolutely batshit - riders appearing & disappearing, truning up on other sections of the course, ...
Seems our £13 is going to be spent on creating multiple parallel universes 😯

I went on a group ride today. I'm so unfit at the moment but it was quite good as it seemed to keep everyone together irrespective of ability so to speak. Did the new jungle route. I'd say the graphics are getting better.

I was in that Kiss race last night at 8, was quite fast in C, finished with the leaders in the final sprint but don’t know where I placed as ZwiftPower seems to be down!?

During the race I didn’t notice anything odd happening as far as riders disappearing etc. Well, not more than normal lol.

Did the new jungle route. I'd say the graphics are getting better.

Weeksy, are you constantly stalking Zwift?! Got a ride-on from you earlier but when I tried to return it I couldn't as you weren't actually riding!

You wouldn't have approved though... was doing the first session of the FTP builder programme 😀

I was just browsing events on the App for later and it showed you and Scaredy as zwifting, so lobbed you a thumbs up.

Ta, the motivation is always appreciated!! I gave scaredy one as well but the rude bugger ignored me 😀

Ta, the motivation is always appreciated!! I gave scaredy one as well but the rude bugger ignored me

Thanks to both though - I do find it motivational during races, mainly 'cos I imagine someone's watching me as I'm tempted back off the power

Lol only joking, I found that as well that you can’t select other riders during a workout!

I did a 3-lap hilly route race this morning, more as a workout and to see how it went. I thought I was going to have a struggle to hold 200W or so for 45 minutes so I entered group D. It worked out pretty well and turned out to be a sweet spot type ride for me which felt good. I even had a nice sprint at the end to beat another D group rider which was fun.

I can't see any race results in ZwiftPower this morning? Is anyone else having this problem or is it just me as an unregistered user?

ZP has been down for a little while I think. I've read some comments on the WBR facebook group about it being down and it was earlier when I was looking to see what races there were today.

Not been on this thread in a long while, apologies if this has been covered:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/zwift-releases-apple-tv-4k.html

Structured session from the plan, steady long ride, or race.....

Hmmm

I’ve a free evening (albeit looking after the dog). Almost feels like a night out :-/

Right, think I might give this racing lark a go tonight. How hard can it be? 😀

Do i even need to answer ? 🙂

Race started, riding ok, chain snapped, race ended.

Awwwww crap. Worst part is, that's a -30 or more if you care about rankings points.

Being indoors I haven't really bothered to do anything to my bike by way of maintenance. Although after reading piemonsters post I am wondering now if I need to?

I throw some chain lube at it every month or two.

Does Zwift Power no longer show race results?

I click on a link in the "History" tab and all I am getting is "This content is unavailable for public consumption".

They're currently resolving some legal issues and relocating to Roubaix apparently and it should be back soon.

Zwift Racers

Zwiftpower.com Update

Hi All, we are in the process of seeking advice as part of a "growing up" exercise to ensure that both those involved in the zwiftpower infrastructure, the entities that contribute to event results (ZADA/ZRVG/Race Organisers) are protected. As you know we are increasing our focus on cleaning up the racing scene and this was a necessary step to ensure that went smoothly.

We have not been hacked - your data is safe, we have not fallen out with Zwift - that relationship continues to grow and will do in to the future. Zwift are very supportive of Zwiftpower and what it does, is trying to achieve with the help of the community.

We hope to have this situation resolved in the very near future. In the meantime we've been working on lots of improvements, James Hodges has been hard at work making the site slicker and more robust, lots of process updates as well as some tweaks to the front end and a couple of big tweaks for example:

- Every event in Zwift now has a scoreboard on ZwiftPower with both unfiltered and processed results (so group rides will reflect the zwift finishing screen)
- Historic tracking of KOM segments on profile by time and power
- realtime finalised results
- more changes to the rider profile page

We've also moved our infrastructure to a more stable platform in Roubaix, France. This will give us performance improvements as well as more flexibility moving forward.

Thank you for your patience.

So no way of reviewing past results?

Spying on a mate who was racing today......

I *think* it's all still working away in the background so once they relaunch, you should have access to all the data.

Cheers for that....

Awwwww crap. Worst part is, that's a -30 or more if you care about rankings points.

Not sure it will, does the rankings take data from Strava? That’s set to private as default, I have to manually switch to public iirc.

What a balls up. Didn't realise you had to be riding already so missed the start. Just as well as Scaled would have kicked my arse 🙂

Will try again at the weekend or maybe tomorrow night.

Damn, I'm missing you lot.....time to return!! (and get thrashed if I'm reading some of the posts above correctly)

Smart trainer wise- is there anything better than the TACX 2240 for £300 or less??

thanks....

Cody - i would say there is nothing better but there are a lot of equals, black friday deal might get you something better.

Nathb - good luck for tomorrow, i hope i dont see you on the course as that will mean you have lapped us. I am in B race so setting off 8 mins after you.

Yeah good luck Nath! Jesper and Tim are commentating it on FB live @ Cyclinghubtv so get plenty of airtime 🙂

Cool thanks Blader-

Being indoors I haven't really bothered to do anything to my bike by way of maintenance. Although after reading piemonsters post I am wondering now if I need to?

FWIW, it was the power link that failed rather than a generally ****** chain.

Plenty of chain lube on there.

Well that was interesting as a first go. Had a go at the Primal Europe Crit. Did the sprint at the beginning, went off the front straight away quickly slowed down to wait for the rest (was very tempting to keep going), then pootled along in the front group thinking this is easy. Then all hell broke loose, before I knew what was happening they were gone. Rode with a couple of other guys but legs failed in last few km probably due to my failed efforts chasing the front group. Need to pay attention more. Haven't quite got my head around the lag between putting effort in and how the game responds.

unlucky daz - I do wonder sometimes if your internet speed has an effect on this. I'm clearly* the fastest rider out there but every now & then I drop a few metres instantly and I wonder if it's a signal dropout

Beyond that, yeah, stay mid-to-front of the pack (and maybe try view number 8 or whatever, the one that shows the bunch from above)

[i]*not all that clearly. terms and conditions apply[/i]

My internet can be a bit flaky, (half way up a hill at the end of a long copper wire) but think it was just me not responding quick enough. Interesting though, much like real life, when the elastic breaks and you get dropped, it's very hard to get back. I guess there's something in the drafting physics after all. The speeds are way off though. I've never got anywhere near a 39kph average over 30km on the road.

Well, this is a much quieter experience so far

What's that mate?