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Good job Weeksy :D, even more so that it was a fasting day!
Final Wahooligan for me today, six laps of london classic. Yawn. Not much chance of hanging on to the group on this one I fear!
Dirtyrider - now it all makes sense, i got your ride on but couldnt think who you were, i was getting quite a few random ride ons from people who werent even in the race. I shall follow you as we seem to end up in races together. Todays race was a bit weird as it wasnt a super fast start and it was a very big front bunch so wasnt difficult to sit in. Then an A rider went for it and pulled a 21s lead and nobody even tried to close it, left him out there for nearly a lap. Then strangely everybody seemed to go full on at the same time, i had to do a full on sprint to try and catch up as it split, leader was reeled in instantly and then the split came together again to leave a big bunch sprint. Winner of B group actually won the race.
Large field and high pace last night. Brutal pace for me in fact. Not helped by only getting into the bike 1.30 before the start and legs still being tired from Sundays effort. Also ramped the power up to early before the start so had to slow quicker than I'd like. I managed to stay with the lead group initially though took some big efforts to pull myself into the draft at times. The group stayed together well.with occasional breaks going nowhere and them being closed down. I managed to hang on till the end of the Mall at the start of lap 5. This time I mistimed the power surge and couldn't keep up. Ended up with two other who were similarly dropped.
The three of us worked well together till towards the end of lap 6 when I tried a mini break up the hill. Didn't quite work and they pulled me back. I went again on the mini kick before the roundabout. This time they didn't close and I ramped the power up to hold a 33m ish gap. At this point I overhauled another rider that had been 30s ahead a few minutes before like he was standing still! Disappointingly had lost 2 minutes in 1.5 laps after being dropped! Final place 30 of 50 As.
The ZP analysis doesn't reflect how hard it felt. I have noticed I'm getting nowhere near my peak efforts in the swift end of ride table but in ZP my numbers across all the columns are sneaking up
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=94552
It's tricky isn't it... sometimes you get it perfectly, sometimes you try SO hard and it doesn't quite work out.... The race for me the other day was one of them peachy ones, every time i kicked it was perfectly timed, every PU was the one i wanted and used it at the right time.
All you can do is give your best 🙂
On that.... well done
had a shocker this morning, was pedalling squares it felt, finished 12/14 in B 11:20 WBR 3 Laps Hilly Race Reverse, couldn't hold any of the groups up the Zwift Island Climb reverse, unsurprisingly as the everyone in the results above me was at least 10kg less and the 2 that were of a similar weight were at the top end of B at 4w/kg
Sounds harsh dirtyrider. Keep at it though and the it'll get a bit easier.
I (sadly) watched the reply of the live stream from my race last night. Now I know why I hurt so much. Serious power on display at the front.
Yeah man, you had the big guns out in that one. Leandro is an ex pro and an absolute monster, Adam Zimmerman is a CVR winner.
You did well to hang on to them for that long!
It was an eye opener! By lap 2 I was already thinking just one more lap and then drop off. My name did seemed to be picked out quite a lot by zwift in the live feed :). I'm glad I watched it back as there were some real good pointers around tactics from the commentator.
If I'm honest I was hiding in the pack for as much as I could 😀.
Haha it's good fun watching the races back init.
I'm really looking forward to CVR coming back in January.
Surprising good yes. The commentator was pretty engaging. I'm hoping there will be another series or league I can join that is a little more flexible on times (e.g. 3 events a week of which one counts or something like that).
12:15 for me in the Volcano 6 lapper.... I'm 99% sure i'll do OK for 2 laps in B... after that.... it may go horiffically wrong. But if it does, i'll try and latch onto some Cs.... but if i'm honest, i should sit with the Cs early on anyway, i'm just not really a decent B yet... or maybe ever 🙂
From the live timings it looks like you doing well :D.
LOL they lied.... I was rubbish.
I'm simply just not a B lol
Dunno about that, you kept up with clear Bs, and beat all the C's apart from one (who clearly forgot his sandbag and has been upgraded) by several minutes. Yeah your floating around the border between classes but its looking good.
Yeah, what he said!
That's quite a long race as well. You did nearly the same wattage as the A winner as well 😉 God knows how they let a waif like him win on volcano flat 😀
1st 4 Bs in that race were on 3.9 or 4.0 w/kg weeksy - you may not win a B race anytime soon but I'd say you're probably more of a B than they are (I mean "were": 1 upgraded and 1 filtered 😉 - you may win it yet !)
Small races are tough, esp when the As are low end and there are several fast Bs
I'm down for the 5.15 4-lapper. see how much I can hurt myself in under half an hour
That course doesn't give me any recovery time at all. On the Innsbruck ride the other day i was dropping down to 155-160bpm at a time, today i didn't recall seeing the low side of 170 let alone the low 160s.
How do you maintain a HR that high! 170 is pretty much my limit and anything above mid 160s for too long an I'm toast.
On that course I've taken to boosting up the short climb that start in the volcano as it allows a short rest period as the pack catches up.
heart rates very personal, i did 186bpm average for 3 laps of innsbrukring (40 minutes) has tumbled in recent weeks though
I am happy at 160bpm but 170’s is when i am in the hurt locker, my max is 183. I did the chop race on the volcano circuit and i got 4 laps in and thought it was on the easy side and a bit boring with nobody up for any banter at all. Then the last two laps went up in pace at the same time as somebody stealing my legs, i was hanging on a bit in patches but manage to recover slightly. The A group were closing so the last lap was pretty feisty, managed to be the lead B and only a few A riders passed me on the line, volcano last lap i did in 5m1s.
5 min 1 ! Wow mate.
nobody up for any banter at all
you people are weird !
My max since I got a HRM has been 172 and I really know I'm in the shit if I'm in the 160s
5 min 1s, ouch! Nice work. That whole event was fast at 47:35!
Strangely the few laps felt easy, the last lap certainly did not. I guess it was the power of the draft as i think we started with about 46 although we dropped quite a few at the start. I dread to think how quick the A group were going to catch us with a 2 min advantage!
4 lapper was as unpleasant as expected. Big field; you can tell autumn's here. Dropped out of a tiny breakaway bunch (no more than 45 in it !) about half way through and waited 10 seconds for the next group who I rode with to the end (3rd of 6 in the "sprint", which is good for me)
My 4 laps were my 1st, 2nd, 5th and 7th fastest ever on the volcano (best only 5.06 though blader ! - and that was my first so we were all fresh. (Weirdly, there was still no banter going on 🙂 )
I remain resolutely mid pack cannon-fodder though, 21st of 40 Bs
Scaredypants - that is consistantly good lapping, nice one. Do you think all the serious riders have returned so no banter allowed? The fields are getting bigger again but we are likely to lose a lot of aussie riders now so there may be a small dip over the next few weeks. My friends in Canada are about to go in to Winter season training so they will swell the numbers once we are in November.
I'll be honest - I've never bantz'd during a race. Can't imagine typing while riding hard, I'm pretty shit at it in the warmup pen.
My race had lots of Europeans in it, smattering of others, mostly US/Canada and of course some "anon" Zwissfolk.
Is it you that does the early mornings? Maybe that's what changes the demographic for you
no races i wanted to do that fitted in with when i could get on the turbo, so up the alpe it was,
i like what they've done with the segment times and PR's and average power per bend, good motivation,
anyway, a new FTP, added 5w and up to 287w - did 301w for 20 minutes, the benefit of having a power meter for years, means i can look back, and the best i ever did for 20 minutes was in 2015 just before i broke my leg, and i did 319w for 20 minutes, that was outdoors on a flat loop near my house, think i had a Powertap G3 then,
it didn't feel uncomfortable today though, felt controlled, the other day i smashed it for 20 minutes on purpose, then hung on, today i felt good, each section i went through was a PR (i did switch from Zwift Aero & 808's to the Emonda and Lightweights) HR stayed low enough that i didn't even cross over in threshold for me,
did 54:32 v last weeks PR of 58:25
feels good
Good work dirtyrider. I have done 3 of the Zwift Academy sessions now after an enforced 5 day rest. Half term is just over a week away so I want to try and complete that before I head on holiday and hopefully come back fresh and see if I can improve on my races.
anyway, a new FTP, ... up to 287w – did 301w for 20 minutes
spooky ! that's exactly what zwift told me I'd done today
(I, however, was blowing out of my arse and close to toppling off the trainer at the end of my race)
new York is coming to Zwift....
https://zwift.com/events/series/tour-of-new-york/
Wont be able to complete the tour however due to half term!
I raced it this morning... Was OK... 🙂
Actual courses and graphics matter very very little to me personally, it's more about what inclines and when.... Sadly this has a kicker up to the line on the layout i raced... which meant trouble for me. So instead i went early, about 1.4km out... Didn't have the power though sadly....
Until then, it was a good race for me 🙂
is there an updated course schedule anywhere yet?
First time back on zwift this winter - did a couple of race on the new york course - the wbr 1 lap, don't know the course name but it was through the park and short. Enjoyed it and seemed to flow pretty well from a racing perspective.
The other one was 2 laps of the Highline with the finish line under the KOM banner...maybe its because ive been slacking off from training but i found it brutally hard. The run in is very long and the race doesnt actually start properly until already gone up the KOM once. Not much fun at all!
Is there always a lag between pedalling and zwift? Just using a non smart training with ant± or Bluetooth and about a 2 second delay. Just wondered if it's the same if i got a kickr core or tacx neo?
Another newbie to swift. so a couple of questions!
After the ride you get to see the ride stats, prettie zone colours etc. But how the hell do you get to view the zone/power HR zone data again later on?? I can find the ride in ride history but cant seem to find a way to view the data?
Also Power speed HR etc is missing on strava when save and upload, anyone else have that?
Lag: I don't think it's the trainer - there's loads on the web about it but not sure wjat really works (suggestions include; set the power in zwift's settings to 1 second; try changing between bluetooth and ANT+ if you can; make sure you've a decent internet connection speed where you're training (I think this one probably does matter)). In the end, you get used to it, though mine is only a second or so
Power: Link your zwift to strava (or whatever you use) should "just work" but if you need to upload to something else, I think YOUR pc holds a log of each ride
ARRGGGGHHHHHH. Did the 11.30 or so race. LaGuardia loop, 10 laps.
Settled nicely into small group but let the main A/B riders go... Then... Lost everyone.... lost internet...lost broadband !!!! didn't come back for about 20 mins... .i rode on for a lap after dropping to see if it would come back and where i was, but no....
going to see if the legs survived for the 12:30 now.
Weeksy - i had exactly the same problem on Friday. Just before we started somebody had said that New York is glitchy and had created problems already, i just ignored thinking it was user error. Then 6 laps in of ten and everyone disappeared, i carried on and saved the ride but nothing went to strava. I had wifi as within seconds i was on the net plus i share wifi with my neighbour and he was happily working with no interruption. Its still no guarantee but it is a massive coincidence that people predicted problems, no further updates from Zwift so i have to assume its not down to them but lots of issues since NY.
Power: Link your zwift to strava (or whatever you use) should “just work” but if you need to upload to something else, I think YOUR pc holds a log of each ride
Yep, there's a full workout file as per this page. Means you can upload to Strava etc if Zwift crashes on exit, which happens very occasionally. What you can't do, unless things have changed, is re-upload it to Zwift. I think it keeps a record of your overall mileage etc server side, but speaking from bitter experience, if you're doing one of the challenges, like the Everest climbing thing, you're stuffed on the accumulated total. I lost over 1000m of climbing like that, which was a bit galling.
I find the NY course a bit confusingly uniform. I never have the faintest idea where I am at any point unless it's going up the KOM thing. I'll probably have a better idea in six months or so.
Badlywireddog - i know what you mean, i have only being in the park twice but i couldnt tell the difference between either course and i had no idea where i was on the lap. It will take some getting used to.
first foray into the park - 18:10 WBR 3 Lap Perimeter Race - had 3 days off, and mostly a wasted weekend, and its half term, and the mrs is at work all week, great, wasn't feeling like a race but its easy to let days and weeks slide by, so on the turbo and turn the legs which were feeling a bit weary after an impromptu 2/3/4 a side footy with the lads and friends
its a punchy little course, i was expecting everything to be pan flat! out of the gate and in with the front group trying to put time into those behind, got in a small group after everything splintered, that got hoovered up by a bunch including some C's who finished with 3.6w/kg, group of 7/8 mostly stayed together, had to fight hard to stay with the up the hill on the northern end, course finishes on a climb, some got away, some didn't, was still passing people as i finished rather than going backwards - mid pack B
Midday Stage 1 Tour of New York i think tomorrow, should be able to squeeze it in
I have just done stage 1 of Tour of NY and i can hardly believe this but out of a couple of hundred of us, i managed to finish 3rd overall for a Bronze. Tough course with a non-advertised 7 mile lead in lap so actually a 20 mile race and 3 times over the KOM! Best time on kom was 3:48.