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I just want consistency really.
3 races in last week.
1. Split start, single C race
2. All in together, race everyone. No DQ s/upgrades
3. All together, race everyone, upgrades.
You just don't know.
It makes no difference to how hard I try, I just do my best.
But battling all these Bs is getting tiresome. A nice little algorithm to stop people who finish outside of cat limits 3 times and enforcing entry into higher Cat would be nice
Is it wrong that I'm actually quite proud about finishing 4 mins behind Ian Bibby and Adrian Timmis?
Not at all weeksy as that is truly something to be proud of, great work. I was proud this morning that i stayed with the A group for the first 11 miles of my race whilst having bubonic plague, i then got dropped and left pretty quickly and they beat me by 5 mins but i did get BRONZE in B but there were only a dozen of us.
I dream of decent results in B. I'm getting closer, but think realistically I now need to drop weight not gain power to do that. Again today I hit 280w for the race, which I'm happy with. But at 5kg less I'd be a damn pile better
That is a great result Weeksy!
I got off to a fast start but still got left behind by most. Got into a group of 4 and into the second lap we caught a bigger group. Stayed with them for a lap or so and then fell off the back. I TT'd the next lap and then caught another guy who I raced ( well sort of) to the finish. Curiously I was 81st in the results at the end and that is where I finished in ZP, 22nd overall in C. The group that dropped me finished a couple of minutes ahead.
Mixed feelings about the result. Quite pleased with the time. My recovery seems to have improved out of sight as well, at least I was not in the foetal position after the race for a change. I was almost bang on my ftp and improved my 5min and 1min average wattages according to zwift. Still have this nagging feeling it could have gone better though.
That's awesome then mate if you're hitting your bests!
Racing is very fluid, in 10 days, same race, 4 laps wbr I finished 2min 25 difference to my own result. Now admittedly the slower race I put out less power, but that's often related to who else you're racing as you sit in groups etc. But it's not just down to your own performance. A right break or a decent PU at the right time, suddenly you're in a fast bunch but holding your usual power only, but you've then lapped 20s a lap quicker.
Keep enjoying it buddy!
Struggling to be arsed tonight, the good races all seem to be a bit earlier on the evening and there's a bit of a void 8-9.
Doesn't help that I've only just woken up, reading 4 stories at bedtime too it out of me. Dashing out to the garage for a no warm up WBR one lapper seems ridiculous 😆
. A right break or a decent PU at the right time, suddenly you're in a fast bunch but holding your usual power only, but you've then lapped 20s a lap quicker.Keep enjoying it buddy!
Cheers Weeksy.
The PU was a problem. I got a feather before the race but for some reason it did not appear in the app. I can only just reach my laptop but then realised I didn't know how to activate it on the keyboard. It taunted me for the rest of the ride 😡
Space bar
Thanks I figured it had to be simple but I was too afraid to experiment in case I stuffed something else up. 😀
By the way normally as my laptop is at the low end graphics card wise I run on 576p. After the last update it changed itself to 720p. Looks a whole lot better and seems to run fine.
Sheesh, it's a slow process climbing the ranks as a long term C.
I got +4 today for that effort!
So my last 6 have been 4,5,6,3,3,4
That's not many points for lots of effort ha ha. But has seen me from 889 to 960 over the last month or so. Them dnf I had a couple of months back I really do regret now!
That was strangely enjoyable!
Did a WBR 2w/kg ride and spent the whole time dropping back to help people back on to the group. I've refined by setup a bit in the garage an set up an old monitor up in there so i had zwift an netflix on at the same time. Chatting with the others on the ride was something that i've not really done before (on most of the rides iv'e done my phone is unusable with sweat)
Last lap the ride leader told us we were going to race it... can you spot which bit that was?
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scaled, was it the bit just before your cardiac arrest ?
Anyone planning on doing the first pre-season CVR race tomorrow? Will be the 7pm one if I do it!
Yep, I’m signed up for tonight’s preseason CVR at 07:00 UK time. First time with CVR so placed in bracket D. My proper name is J.Stokes if you want to say hi 😀
I'm scared and intimidated by 3 laps of Loop. I'm not sure i can do Box in anything like a sensible speed/time on 3 laps. Esepcially as if i race it, i'm racing with cat 4/5/6/7/8 which means i'm at the lower end of the ability of the bunch.
I’m relatively new to Zwift racing so I think I’m still in the naive stage so not thinking about what course of distance before entering. Normally it’s incredibly hard for me to make the same time every week due to work and home life, so I normally just ride/race whatever event is up next when I have an hour or 2 spare.
This CVR will be my first attempt to attend any event on a more regular basis, time will tell if it’s actually fun lol
It's all good fun IMO, even the races where you struggle... you just have to sometimes forget how horrific it is and remember the training you're getting and how good it is 🙂
Must admit I hadn’t clocked it was 44km 😯
7am race not very well attended - only 8 riders, all posting 3-5 w/kg. I was under the impression it was a mass start for all categories?
In the middle of the FTP builder programme right now, and today is supposed to be an “endurance” free-ride, so probably wasn’t going to race full chat anyway!
Just watching a bit of the 1pm CVR race on Twitch. Some guy out of his saddle doing 600W+ dropping everyone on the last bit of Box Hill 😯 Then lol'ed as he had to dial it back to about 125W to recover on the downhill and everyone caught him up 15s later 😆 nice to see these guys are human too!!
That will be me later tonight but the opposite way round, being dropped on the up and catching up on the decent. There should be a crazy value setting dependant on how mad you descend
Only 35 riders in for the 4pm CVR race, considering it's not a layout i fancy, or indeed one that suits me, along with the fact it's a group i'm likely to do very badly in.. I'm not thinking i'll bother !
I am wondering now whether the proper races will be quite as long!!
Mmmm thrice up box hill you say?
I predict that i'll either:
*Fall asleep before 10pm and miss the race
*Attack in wildly the wrong place
*get dropped going over the top of the hill because the top isn't the bloody top.
Well more entered, but i'm just not feeling 3 of that today after a few races this week already.
I'll jump on for the short WBR 1 lap event at 16:30 though for a quickie.
Oh by jiggedy ! That killed me as usual.
Went off hard.... Not hard enough as the A/B guys pulled away, "OK, lets see who's about"... plenty of riders around me, so i jumped in the next bunch. Good call i think, we were fairly cracking on with it. I caught a feather, so used it on the first uphill, crested that in 1st in the group and easing off to join the bunch i was in, we were 10-11 strong up to the line. One guy who was a C called Freitag jumped off the front and i don't think he went below 5w/kg for the rest of the race, so i'm seeing him as a DQ/upgrade. Our bunch thinned a little, but happily i was still in there. Up the tiny kick at 2% coming along towards the monuments in the middle of the road often kills me, but i hung in and as we hit Horseguards hill i was 3/10 in the bunch of ours and sitting in i think 30th overall. We crested the hill and i was still 3rd in the bunch but the front 2 riders were 5w/kg and Bs, i knew i wasn't holding that but i did Clayton was around 4w/kg behind only a few meters, "OK, let him pass and jump on the wheel", which didn't work as he then hit 5w/kg and left me... So with 1.4km to go i had 6 riders behind me, the closest was Axelsson who was 13m behind and about 3.5w/kg, so i cracked on around that pace, coming around the roundabout he'd closed to 9m, 8m... He came right up to me at 300m to go and snuck past me... So i jumped on his wheel and nailed it past him with about 10m to the line to beat him ! I also kept the other 5-6 riders behind.
That was arugably the most involved at the end i've been in a very long time. Great battle and was blowing out of my well, you know...
Looking at 'live' tab, theere's 3 other Cs ahead, but their power is showing as being over the 3.2... So we'll see how it all plays out in the cards....
Phew... good race though.
Yeah was watching you for a bit, some very impressive numbers from you there! Just gotta drop a bit of weight now & you'll be smashing it in B for sure!! 🙂
Indeed mate, my power is the least of my issues now 🙂 Weight is the killer.
I'm lapping consistently on the 1 lap times, all within 1-3s of eachother, weighted power for that was 316w, which is a decent number for me...
I can't see me dropping the weight though without some radical thinking after Xmas. Either the 5-2 or something more than i doing that's for sure.
2-3 days off for me now as i've got family stuff taking my week up... but it's been a blast as always 🙂
Enjoy the Zwifting guys. !
Provisional results show me as a C win.... Would have been a 10th in B too..
Lets see if i can get more than 4 CVR points for that !
Tonight I tried racing again, my first go about a month ago i went in as a D, struggled to hold on then got dq'd as 2.7w/kg. A week after i then got dq'd by my neighbour for making too much noise. After some training doing a few adhoc rides and a couple of the training sessions i gave the 17:15 4 lap flat a go.
I've just put everything I could do into holding a wheel and crossed the line averaging 3.2w/kg. Looks like it'll be another dq but either zwift is working or I've learnt how to dig deeper! 15W added to my ftp. I'll take that.
3.2, damn, that's more than I can muster. Well done indeed buddy! Nice one.
What's you weight Weeksy? If you'd held that power for another 4 mins you'd have an ftp of 300 so you must be close to B now??
Looking at the results on zwiftpower it has me 7th out of 63 in C but the 3.2w/kg was what it showed me post race in zwift. ZP has my category at 2.7w/kg and my average is 2.8w/kg. Which is the figure to trust? Obviously it's all relative anyway as I'm working with a dumb turbo and no power meter at the mo.
95kg on zwift but could arguably even be 96 currently depending on when I weigh myself.
I'm very very close to B over the short ones, but still 2.9 on 40min+ races.
I reckon in an FTP test I'd be about 285-290w.
Post race is usually higher than later. On screen results I often see myself 0.2 higher than the ZP results end up being.
The ZP results I think come direct from Strava results so are accurate.
Thanks Weeksy. I'm sat at about 76kg but haven't really got the scope to drop much at all as my bodyfat is already as low as im happy for it to go.
You seem in a really good position with an ftp that high, plenty of water, protein and avoiding sugar would soon see you in B territory.
Errrrm yeah, easy. Clearly that's not my strong point otherwise we wouldn't be in this position now. Cakes, biscuits, granola squares, the list goes on and on. Belgian buns are another, croissants of course. Do I need to keep going. Hmmm
Sorry, didn't mean to be condescending. One of my go to snacks is packets of biltong from Asda, dried beef virtually zero sugar and tasty as hell. Also has an added bonus of upsetting people in the office for the smell it kicks out
I didn't think you were mate. Honest.
Shheeesh. +6 on cvr rankings. It's tough getting these points up I tell you!
Ziftpower seems to be taking registrations again but I can't make it link to zwift - any ideas?
Shheeesh. +6 on cvr rankings. It's tough getting these points up I tell you!
Nath explained again how it works 😀
If you want more points- beat better people 😆
Trying my best fella, if I could beat better people I wouldn't be languishing in C.
Thought I did well today in honesty lol.
Really wish I could find some convenient hilly races. Bit confused tonight as my app said Watopia and then I appeared on the London circuit. Flat as usual.
Big field at 17:15/ 40 riders in A over 200 all in. Bit of a change from back in October and things have definitely got harder. Noted that we had Russ Downing in the mix which was quite nice although I think he was on a recovery ride.
Usual CX sprint start which suits me at this time of year. Got established in a small bunch. Some people got off the front - seemingly assisted by some dubious riders who later got DQd. Tried to bridge and blew up. Recovered and sat in for the finale. Managed 10th on the road which was bumped up to 8th on ZP.
Definitely better with more riders. Hoping to do some of the longer races and hilly races after Xmas. Still CX racing at the weekends so don't push too hard in the second half of the week.
I notice ZP still hasn't done all the upgrades although I now have a rank on there.
No, I mean beat better C's. You can't expect low-key afternoon races with small fields to have the same points up for grabs.
103 total was a good bunch.
Life choices dictate my riding generally. I like my evenings to relax.