Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Impressive that Nath. I can just about get into the very high 5's with a proper hard effort.
Yesterday i had a couple of laps where i stuck some effort in and got a 6:19 and 6:20. But the majority of my laps were 7:15's

I hadn't done a flying volcano circuit lap before so did a couple yesterday for some high cadence work (trying to hold over 100rpm for the lap).
Was good to get a better score on the STW Zwifters board too 🙂
I don't recall seeing your PB starting with a 5 Weeksy 😆

Thanks @weeksy!

That was on a TT bike too so no hiding! 😆

Just about holding onto the top spot: https://www.strava.com/segments/14032406?filter=overall

IMO the TT bike is the best one to set lap times with as it's fast anyway & you can never guarantee getting a good draft all the way round otherwise. Plus it's fairer. I'm gonna concentrate on the volcano circuit from now on as it doesn't penalise heavyweights so much 😆

in weeksy's defence, his [s]anti[/s]clockwise one does start with a 5

@zilog - normally yes, but most of my fast times around wataopia have been set in races were you're drafting loads of other riders.

The other way round, my personal best was set with me and a friend taking turns at the front.

I bet you used a powerup as well 😀

Urgh...when you haven't been on the bike much in a while and then zwift and am sure the trainer must be out to give such low watts and multiple calibration tests say its correct 🙁

@zilog - Haha nope, clean laps only. I'm doing it for a competition.

Need to shave 6 seconds to get to first spot! 😈

Anyone racing today? Tempted by the ASIA race @ 1 if work allows or maybe Kiss @ 2 as not done a Volcano flat race yet otherwise it'll be Team Italy, SZR or WBR after work... quite a lot of choice today actually! Volcano CCW TT @ 8 sounds good too but I don't think I want to be doing it that late.

nope - working too late tonight, so sneaked in a quick charge round & up the volcano first thing.
PR on each, HR max 169. I think 170 might actually kill me 😯

LOL i think we're all a bit nuts

Was going to do the EVR race tonight at 8 but it's 5 laps & 28 miles which I really can't be arsed with.

Probably just go for another spin up the mountain.

I did 45 mins or so floating about and up mountain volcano thing. I'd already done 40 min outside earlier to drop car off and collect it.

How reliable is Zwift Power? Sorry if it has been discussed previously, I don't have the energy to go through the 100 pages on this thread! Did the Kiss race (Cat C) last night at 8pm, and only 6 times have been posted so far. There were loads of Cat C riders, so that isn't right? Zwift Power seems to come up with results very quickly sometimes, but also misses huge chunks out.

Is there any other way to track race results? Zwift itself doesn't seem to (which I don't understand at all), unless I am missing something? Do the race results come up[ on screen on the actual Zwift app if you wait long enough?

KISS Races don't have a results page as you cross the, most do.

Zwiftpower isn't that reliable, the way they record the races is proper Heath Robinson stuff. Rumours of proper race integration coming from zwift sometime, maybe, never. Sometimes it falls over and they rarely bother sorting it out afterwards as it's too much hassle.

Just had a look at that race, at the bottom of the race there is another collapsed tab with a down arrow. Click that and it'll show you all the unlinked riders.

Thanks Jam bo. Why so many 'unlinked' and DNF riders for this race? Not had this issue before, which makes me think something is up here?

Lol, was just thinking to myself "maybe they've improved ZP" as it's been alright for me the last couple of weeks!

Was going to do the EVR race tonight at 8 but it's 5 laps & 28 miles which I really can't be arsed with.

Slightly annoying not to get the result/data when I've killed myself trying to pass or keep up with people! I tend to end up on the KISS races as they seem to start at 8pm, which is when I'm often free.

It's been said before but if the zwiftpower 'system' crashes then it's pretty hard work to get the results back and it seems most organisers just don't bother and move onto the next one.

Frustrating but as it's all unofficial at the moment and free then it's pretty hard to complain.

Frustrating but as it's all unofficial at the moment and free then it's pretty hard to complain.

True. Surely Zwift should be doing this themselves since we are paying?

I did Kiss C last night too - not on the main results but I am on the "live" version which was a much fuller list.

Did the international women's day ride this evening rather than a race, although I was finding it pretty easy so when another group came past on the last lap (possibly ZZRC sub 3?) I upped the effort to stick with them for the rest of the lap.

Jam bo- As I've alluded to many times in this thread, please note that all the "Waaah, we do this for free" threads on FB have dried up lately.

You can be fairly certain ZP are not out of pocket for their efforts any more* 🙂

*All in my opinion of course 😉

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At the top of every race...

Kiss races appear to have more issues that others. I've now largely switched to EVR which are at similar times but different days.
As someone who is only just a Kiss C, the EVR C cat suits me better too.

Having said that I was short of time tonight so did do a KISS race the TT. My first ever TT - didn't get into my stride until the last 1/4. I've only ever done a handful of RL TTs, I found the motivation easier for them though.

Jam bo- The reason Zwift won't touch racing with a barge pole is that they don't want to start disciplining their paying customers for race infringements.
So what they need is a totally independent, publicly unaffiliated organisation (or contractor) to do it for them- like, um, well, Zwiftpower perhaps 😉

The disclaimer first appeared at the same time the moaning about doing it for free stopped if that makes it any clearer for you? Wink wink, nudge nudge 🙂

Again, all of this is my conjecture 😉

Also, the head honcho of KISS, Glen Knight is also responsible for a lot of Zwift Community Live work such as the GCN streams last night.

The more distracted he has become with that work- the worse the backroom running of KISS racing has become......

🙄

The latest Zwiftcast even describes Zwiftpower as being 'supported' by Zwift.
That's the closest public hint yet as to what's really going on.....

Results from the KISS TT are fascinating. There are some really heavyweights in the C cat....

Chaps - anyone with a neo experience issues post update - unless my fitness has fallen off a cliff I have somehow lost 20/30 watts of power!

Interesting you say that, my last ride know the neo was after updates and felt like I was really busting a guy to go at my normal pace, so much so I actually bailed from the race.

Hmmmm, something is wrong either as it's a real struggle at the moment on the neo

Jim - I'm sure you weren't busting a 'guy' though! 🙂

[quote=mashiehood ]Chaps - anyone with a neo experience issues post update - unless my fitness has fallen off a cliff I have somehow lost 20/30 watts of power!

given how much nathb has been posting about how his neo over-reads pretty significantly, maybe you never had it in the first place... 😉

How accurate are the speeds reported by Zwift - they seem a bit quicker ( around 5km/h) and as a result are messing up my best times for a given distance on Endomondo.
Weight and height are accurate and the turbo trainer has been calibrated using the Tacx app.

perfect world, no wind, no junctions, no cars, always someone to draft etc.

given how much nathb has been posting about how his neo over-reads pretty significantly, maybe you never had it in the first place...

perfect world, no wind, no junctions, no cars, always someone to draft etc.

Yeah mine's a lowly Vortex.

The sun is out now (and slightly going to my head)... roll on the clocks changing and the mudguards coming off the commuter and it'll be interesting how much I use zwift going forward...

As you're aware this is also my weight/fitness thread as well as my Zwift one 🙂

Training started today in earnest for some longer events. It was windy out there and i was on the 29er, that's the one thing Zwift misses, the wind, the relentless wind lol.
Did 2 hours and about 45km... Not too bad actually. Legs felt good on the way out, but on the way back they were seriously lagging, heavy and tired really. That's what my training is lacking mostly, the longer stuff and lets be honest, 2 hours isn't THAT long.

I had an inpromptu weigh in... Today was my lowest... 14st 12. That's from 16st 8-9 pre Zwift in Oct. Still on target to hit 14st 7lb or less for trip in June, then plan is to his 14st 0 for the family holiday in early Aug.

That's an impressive drop, congrats!

Indeed, well done weeksy!

Well done on the weight loss weeksy. I've not been Zwifting for a while because I've been working from home and been able to get out for an hour at lunchtime - although yesterdays ride was just a few miles on a Boris bike in London.

My weight is static but I think I'm seeing some improvements in my fitness due to the mileage Zwift has helped me get in so far this year. I managed to average 386W on one of the local Strava segments today, which has put me up to 38th out of 6249 folks that have set times on it. Sadly I don't perform quite so well on the hillier ones though!

Nice one weeksy!

I reckon I will still be doing the odd Zwift race in the summer (especially if they keep bringing out more routes) as I do actually enjoy it.