Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

grrr. a week away with work, managed an EVR race followed by a week off with a cold and had a tooth removed yesterday.

I can feel the fitness ebbing away...

Aww man - was up early today on a day off. Beautiful blue sky, still and just a bit chilly.

Had an appointment early on and now it's overcast, windy & drizzling; I'm having a rest day

I've become a right pansy 🙁

outdoors for me

Well it'll be good practice for the weekend, similar cold and windy conditions I expect.

grrr. a week away with work, managed an EVR race followed by a week off with a cold and had a tooth removed yesterday.

Sorry to hear that jam bo. I really shouldn't complain about my minor training inconveniences having had a pretty good run of it through Jan and Feb.

I've become a right pansy

Right that's it, I'm off out 🙂

I'm doing 2pm Zwift volcano race i rekon.

Right that's it, I'm off out

This was a poor decision. Cold, blowing a gale, and then tipped it down alternating rain and hail for the last hour. Grim 🙁

I'm doing 2pm Zwift volcano race i rekon.

How did you do? Getting some practice in? 🙂

Sorry to hear that jam bo. I really shouldn't complain about my minor training inconveniences having had a pretty good run of it through Jan and Feb.

not a dig at you. i'd had a really good run without getting ill and making some good gains in speed. back on it tomorrow night for EVR C to see how how much I've dropped off.

grrr. a week away with work, managed an EVR race followed by a week off with a cold and had a tooth removed yesterday.

I can feel the fitness ebbing away...

Tell me about it.......

Except I had the tooth out followed by the week off with a cold. Went on the club run last weekend - fast social group only - made it to the coffee stop and then climbed in to the broom wagon*, once I'd stopped I realised how shit I felt and couldn't stop coughing.

* limped to the nearest station and got a train home.

This was a poor decision. Cold, blowing a gale, and then tipped it down alternating rain and hail for the last hour. Grim

Went for a wander at lunch and there were loads of cyclists about (Compton/Hagbourne area). Was quite surprised!

Epic epic race.... Went for it 3km out, got 22m lead but blew up..

Came back at the end and lost 3 places on the line.

but it was fractions splitting 10 of us.

I think apart from the lack of drafting it was perfect practice !

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Yeh, I've got some sort of trapped nerve in my shoulder that's been pissing me off for a couple of weeks, now a "cold". I've been zwifting but only short rides - once I start blowing my nose or my nech hurting I've been backing off

haven't done more than 15 minutes at pace pretty much for a month but I'm still a couple of hundred miles further on than any other Jan&Feb so still hopeful that I'll have a good spring & summer of riding

(oh, and Weeksy did well !)

/stalker

I think apart from the lack of drafting it was perfect practice !

To give you a bit of encouragement, you averaged 275W, the winner last Saturday averaged around 215 watts for the race. Obviously watts are not the whole story 😉

I was trying to simulate the sort of ride I think may happen, dropping pace a bit, then a squirt of speed, bit slower, then maintain hard, get the hr up, then relax and bring it down.
Obviously I have no real world comparison as I've not raced but going on what CH and Nath say, it sounded and felt about right.
Only self criticism was not holding it in the last 3km. But 1km seems remarkably far at times! One minute I'm 3.1km from the line, putting out 350w and cruising, next thing its 2.1km to go and I'm going 205w and thinking I'm dead. Recovered a bit but couldn't get over 450w to the line.

I did the mgcc ride this morning, great race this with some good chat on discord, i highly recommend it. I am still waiting for Halfords to the send the rest of my new tacx flow through but as its taken them 3 days just to refund my fiver delivery i wont hold out much hope of getting it soon. Still struggling to shake this weird cough, i seem to have a chest full of lung batter that i just cant seem to cough up but it doesnt really seem to affect my zwift capabilities, i guess i am not trying hard enough.

Aargh strava is down due to AWS storage service outage. Can't pore over my BRS TT performance. I *think* I broke 3w/kg over the 10miles for the first time. I was 2.3ish back in Nov...

MrBlobby, I think you need to change those figures to w/kg to give the true picture 😉 Not to mention w/cda!
Whilst flat, there are dozens of accelerations per lap where weight is the enemy.

I'm heading in the right direction. It took 295w to get lapped in my first race and only 240 to get lapped in my last one 😆

I'm heading in the right direction. It took 295w to get lapped in my first race and only 240 to get lapped in my last one

I'm sure there's a quote from someone that winning is about getting to the finish having done the least amount of work 🙂

You do get better at it. You get comfortable sitting in the bunch and hiding from the wind. And you get better at reading what's going on, being in the right place at the right time and anticipating the surges so you avoid having to make those big accelerations.

Yes- I thought I was until last week 😆

Full focus and commitment this week.....

Top banter is banned until after the race 😉

Get in ! 🙂 my first ever podium. Happy with my second place in cat D tonight, considering I came last in my first attempt 5 weeks ago 🙂

And on the other end of the scale I struggled to 2nd to last place in B category in tonight's Kiss race up the mountain

Well done Geologist ! Top work.

Jim, you should be honoured to be in B ! It's tough the higher you move up....

geologist - Member
Get in ! my first ever podium. Happy with my [b]second[/b] place in cat D tonight, considering I came last in my first attempt 5 weeks ago

Wow! Thanks scaredypants. How did that happen , I was definitely second when I checked yesterday evening. I'll take that though, I wonder what happened to the guy who was first?
In light of the strava crash , is there a way of retrospectively uploading a race to strava?

Simple answer to that will be "he exceeded catagory limits"

is there a way of retrospectively uploading a race to strava?

You should be able to download the .fit file from zwift and then manually upload it to strava

Thanks chrisa87, just googled it 🙂

Anybody up for the 5.40 Team Italy race? It's uncategorised which I quite like as you don't have to mess around with DQs, sandbaggers etc 🙂

(was going to do this race on Monday but contrary to my own advice rocked up to the trainer with 5 mins to go only to find my iPad had zero charge! So contented myself with doing the Trek 50km & unlocking the achievement for 10 laps of the volcano while I was at it! [i]So close[/i] to unlocking the Zwift Aero now!!)

So close to unlocking the Zwift Aero now!!

(your race is a bit too early for me; 8.00 TT for me tonight, I think - definitely need a FTP-style ride)

I can't actually remember unlocking the Zwift aero bike. TBH now I've got the aero bike and the 808's I'm not that bothered about levels 🙂

The rest of the bits for my new tacx flow arrived from halfords today so i might just be on for a test ride in that 8pm TT.

The aero bike is the lv 13 unlock and is one of the fastest bikes apparently!

Midway through level 16 here and only started zwifting in Jan 😳 Progress will hopefully slow dramatically as the bloody weather improves.

googles:

How to get it: hit level 13

zilog - I'll race you to it !

(I'm still doing the everest climb, about 20% of the way to the 50,000 which I heard gets you the tron-looking thing. Not sure I'll ever ride it much but, y'know...)

That is even faster, according to the zwift blog guys!

How do you tell what level you are on via ipad? Do you get anything for completing the Everest climb (i am 85% of the way up)?

Just go to zwift.com and log in, it tells you on that.

Do you get anything for completing the Everest climb (i am 85% of the way up)?

new bike I think. not the tron bike though, that's a lot more climbing.

yeah, I got a bike - Trek I think - for climbing Everest

I have a Cervello S5 with set of Enve wheels 😉 And power it with a Triban 5 😀

I am at level 11 and a quarter so a long way to go for the aero bike. Do you get xp points for the everest climb?

Blimey crosshair, are you right at the top, or what? (L25?)

(mine's driven by a 30-year old frame that I daren't ride outside any more in case it collapses on hitting a pebble!)

Blader, I don't remember getting points but did spot the "you got a new bike". Easiest points seem to come from doing a few laps of the volcano (5,10,20 I think - though I haven't done 20) or doing some hardish sprints (500,700,1000,...)

mine's driven by a 30-year old frame that I daren't ride outside any more in case it collapses on hitting a pebble!

Much the same here! A 30 year old steel Peugeot, my first ever proper road bike (I don't count my second hand Raleigh Arena.) Looking at the rust around the BB it really can't last that much longer 😕

Yep, level 25 for a while now...

Anyone doing the ZHR Mountain Goat race this eve. Sounds interesting but not sure about making the manual turn.
My Zwifting and therefore fitness has really dropped off recently 😐

scaredypants - Member

zilog - I'll race you to it !

Well that was shit. Decided to take an easy spin up the mountain. Halfway up zwift threw a fit, frame rate dropped to about one every 2s. Couldn't be bother to start again.