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@IvanDobski - I've joined the discord server - hopefully it's straight forward to use later!
@weeksy. Yes at 7:39 stop, that gives your turbo plenty of time to spool down. So you'll be sat not pedalling for 8 minutes (or open the pairing screen and you can pedal while waiting). These events are basically setup as normal races with manually assigned start times after the events real start. If your still pedalling at 7.40 you'll launch as per normal even though your official start time is 7.48.
If you catch any other teams they are not allowed to stay in your draft and should back off enough to stop that happening. Same if you get caught, let the catching team go. There may well be some solo riders. If they get caught in your draft ask them to drop back. Mostly people are fine doing this when you explain why but occasionally you get an idiot who tags along.
We'll see you in the results as we are off at 6pm.
Did last week with the Club and have 6 of us tonight.
Latte team and hoping to finish higher up than with 4 last week. We did ok at 54 of 99 teams. Hope to be in top 25% tonight.
OK to confirm
- bumblebee jerseys and road bikes (NO TT bikes, we need to draft!)
- in the pen for the event start at 7.40
- no pedalling from 7.39 until our start time at 7.48
- communicate if we can on the STW discord channel ( https://discord.gg/UP6kv6). Let's use the general channel for text, plus push to talk in the STW voice channel). I can't type, others might not be able to talk, we'll just get by between us.
- time is taken 4th finisher - so we need to get at least 4 of us to the end
See you in the pen, or shortly before.
See you there
See you there, quite looking forward to this!
@savoyad sorry - what's the general channel and what does 'push to talk' mean?
hey phil have you followed the discord link?
invite invalidg
yes I have
once your in there's a few voice channels we're in the one labeled stw voice
That was tough.
Raggy on the first 2 laps on the 2 main climbs at the top of the map so watch it. Powerful rider to the back to close it up.
About 54:10 to beat.
Push to talk means that the mic is only active when you push the button. This keeps background noise down.
Sorry had to miss this; on duty phone and got call last minute ... first time it has rang all week so typical its when I am on it!
hope it went good.
Good effort all, caught loads of groups and not caught by any!
54:47 I think.
That's not a course for me!!! Brutal at times
That was nails. Got a 10w ftp increase though.
Really I should have dropped as you would have been faster but I was thinking that wouldn't leave any leeway for a mechanical or Bluetooth dropout.
That was a hard course for a TTT though, can't wait for a flat one!
I don't think we'd have gone much faster mate, maybe 10s at the max. If you went I was the next weakest link and I didn't have that much more in me.
Really enjoyed that - great team effort!
Yeah enjoyed that a lot. Sterling effort Ivan and as I understand it bunch size makes a bit of a difference in zwift so you may well have made us faster any how and even then, over most of an hour I'm not holding a lot more than that.
You actually put out more W than the rest of us so if anything it's is lot slowing you down by being too spiky!
if anything it’s is lot slowing you down
Annnnnd that's the quote I'll choose to take away from it all...😉
Does anyone know where the results are published, I can't see anything on the wrtl website without creating an account?
Well done guys. Glad you enjoyed it. That is an evil ttt course.
They have to compile all the different races right?
Next week is Greater London Flat...
Next week is Greater London Flat…
Next week?????
Barf*
I've tried to create a login but waiting (aaaaaages) on an email to verify it,
Next week is Greater London Flat…
Yeah I'm up for that I think.
Flat sounds good, I'd be up for flat.
Flat sounds good, I’d be up for flat
In honesty an actual hill would be fine, those sharp but piddly little ones in tonight's course are horrid for keeping a group together on though as they're just not long enough to adjust your effort on properly.
Still I think we should be pleased with our week one effort. By my maths we won our pen with 55.04, so about 50 seconds up on second place.
Have to see how that pans out on the overall results but more than anything putting all 5 of us over the line within 7 seconds of each other is pretty good I reckon.
I got left behind after one lap. I watched the rest, impressive teamwork.
Interim results are up now.
Overall 55:04.964, 37.25kmh
General classification 227/359
Frappe category (for teams with best rider an A) 122/141
with 6 of 8 time zones completed, so the positions/totals will change slightly overnight.
Frappe category (for teams with best rider an A)
So you see Ivan, it was Newman made us look rubbish.
I got left behind after one lap
It looked like your connection dropped out something. You kept displaying 0w so we'd figured you had hardware issues or something.
It's a big event with an awful lot of work involved for the guys who run it to be fair.
So you see Ivan, it was Newman made us look rubbish.
Yeah not sure how much I helped by bumping us up the category!
Yeah not sure how much I helped by bumping us up the category!
Aye. Cake is on you next time.
@kelvinshuffle
What was the weekend race that you recommended during the TTT?
Thanks,
Phil
The 3r Alpe KOM - 15.35 on Sunday
I'll be doing it again I think fifth week on the trot and brilliant for working up a Sunday Roast Appetite.
Dtcc are rolling out en mass to the Shane Williams ride on Sunday morning.
4 guys from MVCC are doing a virtual zwift everesting on Alpe Du Zwift tomorrow for SAMH fundraising
The 3r Alpe KOM – 15.35 on Sunday
Ah, not the dash at 16.30 then! Seems I entered the wrong one
I think the only difference is the start-time
Great ride today swarm. I'll remember to bring my kit next time.😁
Really enjoyed it. That last lap was hard! Nice for Dr P to show us the underpass where the magic happens...
Relaxing in the sun with a beer now. Cheers!
Nasty course that Astoria8, I did a 4-lap "Flying Cheetah" ITT there at end of Nov last year on Cervelo P5 TT frame (unsure of wheels, my guess is either Zipp 808s or Enve SES 3.4s), ~1hr15mins30secs of torture (not helped by only having two gears at time, I've had 22 again for the last month or so).
Hope those of you that took part had fun, hope to be able to join you soon, no closer to having new belt fitted on Direto after randomly waking at ~0300 and going back to bed ~0900-1300 while spending afternoon feeling like a zombie.
I think we all enjoyed it, certainly it sounded like folk were smiling through the pain!
Not a good course for the first time out together but that said it can only get better with practice I guess.
How we feeling about another TTT this Thurs?
Trying to plan out my riding in a vain attempt to bring structure to the week.
I'm up for it but wouldn't mind ducking out if people would prefer to ride in Latte rather than Frappe
Result irrelevant to me. I'm in.