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LOL Thanks mate... .i did send a message saying 'gone' when i went pop. I like GUTS, he always gives 100% and tries to make the racing interesting too by upping the pace at times....
I'm actually that disappoint in myself i'm tempted to race the 3:15pm today just to shake the feeling.. it might work or might make me feel 100% worse
For some reason i couldnt see or write any messages today even though the chat setting is on. I switched everything off/on after the race and joined the kiss base training but still no joy, not sure what that was all about, i couldnt even join the dirt ride with late joining function enabled, i just sat on the line waiting for it to find riders. Dont rsce this afternoon Weeksy, the morning race has told you your body needs a rest.
I did what was meant to be an easy interval session this morning.
The session ended about 2/3rds the way up whichever climb I was on so decided to complete the climb. After that I figured I might as well finish the lap so that put paid to my easy 1/2 hour session!
I'm pretty new to the whole zwift thing but I've got it all set up to train for a century ride in may. T.herewardismorecheese Is my zwift name if anyone wants to add me. I've done a few races and I'm starting to get my head around the tactics. Got my ftp up to 300 watts last night but I'm pretty heavy so not that impressive.
Yim put an (STW) tag in your username.
Done weeksy. Will that make me faster?
You’ll have more friends 😉 I just added a few - there are a lot of STW’rs on ZWIFT!
Lol no but you'll make friends
You should also be able to join the stw team on zwift power. Think it's open access rather than request to join.
Rode the Alp d’Zwift for the first time. Paced by my Bro who rides 90% road. He used to be fitter than me. He’s not anymore 🙂
Not sure how many times I’d do it, thought it’s ‘gamed’ quite well with all the extra info about each switchback. And some interesting scenery. Took us 66 mins at 220-240w. I felt really good so wonder if it’s wroth trying to crack the hour. To be fair to bro he has a Neo so he gets the 10%+ climbs, whereas my Flux doesn’t.
Even so I’m taking it 🙂
Will that make me faster?
Yeah - you'll get random ride-ons from weeksy's underground nervecentre and so you'll think soembody's watching you 😉
Joined the team now I think.
Alex can you just ride alp d zwift or does it need to be unlocked. Never really looked into doing it yet
@bigyim - no, it’s a level 12 unlock. But if you join a ride that’s going up there, you can do it or if you’re riding with someone who already is level 12 that’s fine too. I’d be happy to do it again, so could go up there with you.
I forgot to say my Bro made me change my new Aero wheels (l13 unlock) for normal ones for the climb! I have to say I thought that was taking the whole thing a bit too seriously 🙂
Having done the Alpe twice in 64 and 62 minutes I would be happy to join you for a sub-hour attempt one day Alex. Perhaps a STW Alp d'zwift group ride 🙂
I'd join that if the timings fitted. Could mimic the outlaw race after summiting and race down.
Sounds like a perfect use for the new meetups feature.
@alex, your bro will only be getting the true 10% plus climbs if he has altered the trainer difficulty setting. It's set to 50% by default.
Is there a quick test to check alp times, if memory lacks?
Sounds good. I really wanted to go at it harder especially with 5km to go. So a STW meet-up for a sub hour crack could be fun.
I’ve just joined the STW group.
I’d be up for an Alp d’Zwift group ride if I’m not working.
@j4mesj4mes if your registered on zwift power it should appear in segments under your profile. Otherwise look on zwift insider for the 'official' Strava segment.
I’d join an Alpe Zwift group ride tomorrow some time.
Just joined the STW group
Did my first race this year earlier today - commuting and being busy, couple of cx races plus a week away skiing had kept me off it
Not as shit as I thought I'd be at less than 10% down vs my awesome peak late last year
2 more weeks of very little riding and then hopefully back at it (though nearly ready to drop my account again once spring hits properly)
Welcome back!
I'm jumping on a gentle 9:10am cruise with brt today, will just ride with the group for the hour and then maybe a lap of the world's course after at a gentle pace to get up to 50km.
Was going to go outdoors, but went to get my riding kit which involves going outside, it's not nice.
Had another crack at a race this morning in the 3R Innsbruckring Flat Race.
I didn't think it went too badly overall but on checking the results after the race I finished 20/26 in C which was pretty disappointing, even more so havign looked at ZwiftPower and seeing that I was 6/7 riders on there. I seems like that is the right category for me as my finishing time would have won the D race.
It seems odd to be that Zwift is just like some XC races where categories attract obvious sandbaggers. Looking at the guy who won the C race, it looks like he's racing every couple of days and winning C races with times that would see him finishing top 5 in B. Seems a bit of a piss take for the sake of getting a virtual podium place!
I'll have another crack at a race later in the week and see how I get on, hopefully better then second last in category 😀
I still am bemused with the Cat stuff and think sometimes it takes a little while for ZP to play catch-up on riders. I was watching a race this morning with an STWer in and the 2 C's in the front of him were at 300w and 4+ w/kg.... But it was only the 2nd race for one of them, the other guy had raced a few more..
I went through a stage of winning almost every C race i entered, but i was still back 3-4 in B, so felt justified in C as i never broke the B limits either, but why people race in completely the wrong Cat, i just don't honestly know.
Making the step up in Cats is tough though, when i went from D>C it seemed impossible i'd ever get top 5 in C.... then i went to winning most... Now, I'm a competitor in C but rarely podium at the moment, certainly not the riders on course at the time. But some of that is my own fault as i seem to end up in the Bs and get dragged along until i go pop.
Debating the 3:15 today or the 4:10 both have merit for me on time and layouts, although not sure which suits best... tricky one.
I'd be up for a tour de zwift group ride if you could all let me know when
i think the problem would be of how much of a group ride it would be.
For example picking say me and someone at 70kg, to keep together i'm going to have to average say 280w to their 180w.... which means the group splits really quickly and massively.... So it depends on what you want from the 'group'....
I'll happily create a get-together if people want it... but on a hilly layout like that, the group may not be quite as groupy as you'd think
You're the lead out man up the first 3 corners. You have to keep the pace at the required times for the segments then chuck the anchor out ;0)
Actually riding up the Alpe makes a group ride easy as you can agree on a w/kg and everyone should be around this figure. Whether people can hold on is another matter but if the aim is to beat the hour this could be worked out with some time checks on the way to ensure still on pace.
For a meetup whoever sets it up everyone needs to be following that person.
I doubt I'd be able to make it but next time I can be bothered to go up it it will be a sub hour attempt aiming at about 55mins. Tough call mind.
Looking at people just under the hour and my own best you need to be around 3.3w/kg. In a group you could probably go under that but whoever is on the front would need to be sitting at about that.
Then I look at that and it's my current FTP so 55 minutes is probably impossible on my own at the moment.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=149497
Fun but slightly ridiculous race. On Zwift companion app I'm actually 16th. But the guys ahead of me were all way way over limit. One guy on 4.69w/kg lol, racing in C.
But it was a great race with lots of battles. Should have won it as when a split came I should have kicked on but I missed it as I thought it would come back.
Pitiful spring for the line though, nothing in the tank
I think the winter here in the northern hemisphere has increased the zwift activity no end as every race i see multiple people who clearly dont belong to there chosen category. I did the met5 race this morning and was beat by a guy who finished with 4.3wkg in B,it happens every time these days. To be fair i took silver and only avgd 3.1 but it was a strange race of slow A riders,wheel suckers, zpower users dragging groups back from nowhere,lots of riders just stopping mid race.
I haven't raced on Zwift for a few months because I've had 4 operations on my eyes. All good now though so should be back to middle C racing at the end of the month. I think I'd almost rather be a lowly B racer than winning group C though if I could make enough power to genuinely be in that category.
Did the gran Fondo yesterday, it seems I'm very out of shape. ☹️
Hero to zero, after last mondays silver in b, a week off due to cold/feeling run down, thought id best get back on before a couple of long shifts at work, still not feeling 100%
Did the 1815 DBR Winter series, 52/55 in B just crept over 3w/kg - terrible
Lol some of us dream of 3w/kg.
Admittedly, today I'd have beaten a few B riders which is nice. But not many.
Day off tomorrow as I'm hoping the weather plays ball and it's KTM time
you did 2.9 today 🙂
Short race.
I'm not sure how to work out what class I should be in. I seem to hover about but the last short race I did I got 3.2 w/kg I didnt expect to be that high and entered cat c. I would be right at the back in cat b but I'm hovering around the limit on shorter flat rides.
If there was a long hilly stage I'd be cat e if they made one !
Sounds like me 3&4 months ago, I could hit B power breaking limits on short flat races, but at 90kg, I'm not close.
I reckon on a Richmond flat short 4-5 lap I'd still do it, but spend a lot of my rides hiding in a bunch.
Put me on a hilly course, I'd be last in B. The decent B guys are close to the 4.0 limit, that's crazy.
Race as a C until Zwiftpower upgrades you. Gives you 3 shots at overshooting the category limit, if you're smashing the limit from day 1 then maybe you should move up, which means if you don't sandbag by backing off then you get to win a couple of races then when you get shunted into B you can get mid table sometimes.
I've worked up to being over Cat limit just and got upgraded so now happy in B. Only done one event and wasn't feeling great but did ok.
Apparently I am back on the team pending list if the ZP team moderator could let me back in.
We have a moderator ? I'm fairly sure i set up the team in the first place... but don't recall that...
I'll look though
MAybe it wasn't me... i don't have anything that's for sure that i can click/do.