Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Yeah, CH - I know what the course is, must've been up that hill 20 times. Just havent ever looked around when I ride, I guess

4 laps weeksy, done 1.5 or so

Nah 3 laps. Final climb just occurring.... Break getting away!

Beaudour is +10secs

Sprint coming up!!!!

all back together ?

Oh sorry it looks like it is 4 😀

Stupid boy pike! I'm sure I read 3 lol
Yeah all together.

I think NG thought it was 3 laps 😀

Guerra thinks there's another climb to go, CH ??

He is doing amazingly well. All to play for now

Nath -2 secs at foot of final climb

By the way i think i am in this race and still sat on the starting line

Now -3 on the descent.

aww, blader - that's a bugger

well done to nath. Hope you're OK matey; that was FAST

The only way i could watch nath was to be in the race. When they set off i was busy peeling some spuds, lack of effort on my part.
Nathb - that was compelling watching and i have to say that was a superhuman effort,insanely fast, very well done mate.

The only way i could watch nath was to be in the race. When they set off i was busy peeling some spuds, lack of effort on my part.

Great effort Nath, that's some proper fast guys!

Scaredypants -didnt realise i could do that, will try that sometime cheers.

Boo, misjudged that last climb by going into it with a little bit of a gap - before I knew it that gap was huge and there was nothing I could do about it.

Thanks for the support and rides on guys 🙂

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Oh and a cheeky additional W on my FTP:
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Cooling down now then off to the chippy haha

wot - you didn't even puke into a bucket ? 🙄

(I'm just off to the garage now and will be in significant danger of a shart, given yesterday's poorliness 😳 )

Great ride nath, cracking effort.

On the FTP note, is it possible to reset this in some way as i think i have a higher ftp than nath (in my dreams) which i think is a legacy figure from my dumb trainer days?

I think you can just overwrite it on the website

Ah, that was the race that came past me. The A's were pretty quick, I noticed Adrian Timmis in there. Good riding to stay with them.

That was really exciting to watch. Well done Nath.

So who's coming to London to watch it for real??

For context- TFC raced that course last week and the winner of the A's was 51:58 😆

In Spain playing on MTB then.

Well done nath, good work.

Outdoor racing rained off for me AGAIN tonight 🙁 Gave the WBR race a go instead, good fun, really like racing that hilly loop.

I got stalked at 48 mins [url= https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1904745519782981&id=1831527497104784 ]LINK[/url]

180 is quite normal for me 😆

Nice work Nath! I'm going to watch the highlights now.

I had a slight mechanical for the first 5km, I was spinning along at around 100 rpm 300w and almost in top gear, thinking to myself this aint right and why dont the hills feel like hills. Then I occurred to me my smart trainer was being dumb. A quick fiddle with my phones Bluetooth as it was back to normal. I'm not sure if it helped or hindered though tbh.
I'm a bit disappointed with such a big field I was hoping to get into a big group but alas It wasn't to be. There was about 8 of us for the first 1/2 then we dropped a few and pick up a couple along the way and it was down to 6 on the last lap. Me another guy got dropped on the final climb, but I told myself I'm letting these guys get away not this close to the end and a big effort saw me catch back on. We stayed together till the end sprinting it out, which was made slightly more difficult when the distance counter disappeared. I got 2nd in my mini group 33rd on Zwift and 30th on ZP. Looks like there was a bigger group a couple of minutes up the road.

Ah @blader your username and Zwift name always confuse me. Thanks for the motivational messages during that race 🙂

@mrblobby - how do you "verify" for those masters races ?

Missed this question from a while back. For the ZHR one there's an email address in the link and you send them one of the requested forms of ID with your DOB on it. I sent them a photo of my racing licence.

Btw, got the same thing with ZwiftPower again ([url= https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=7402 ]here[/url]). It's showing me in the result but doesn't link to strava. Everything seems to be set up ok. I wonder if it's just that I rode around for a bit after the race and it tried to pull the data before I'd put it on strava?

@mrblobby have you made your strava profile public? If its set to private it wont work.

4.65w/kg is epic, you should have joined last night!!

I'm in for the WBR at 10.05 if anyone fancies it. Just had mate cancel ride tonight, so i'm hitting the turbo for a session.

@mrblobby have you made your strava profile public? If its set to private it wont work.

Well the other race I did shows all the data and the strava link ([url= https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=6376 ]here[/url]). Not sure why this one wouldn't. Odd.

4.65w/kg is epic, you should have joined last night!!

First half of the race was pretty steady, second half was a bit harder 😉

I'm in for the WBR at 10.05 if anyone fancies it. Just had mate cancel ride tonight, so i'm hitting the turbo for a session.

Easy one for me today, proper real life racing tomorrow hopefully. Go smash it weeksy 🙂

it would be an easy one for you at my 3.0

Completely off topic, but this seems to have taken over from TR as the turbo thread. Is anyone using a carbon bike on the turbo? Might be switching my cx bike for a better version but as it gets used for turbo as well I'm wondering if carbon on a turbo is asking for trouble in terms of stresses and frame fatigue

Interesting one ferrals. I know loads of people who use their carbon bike on the turbo and I don't know of anyone who's had a problem with it. Having said that, I probably wouldn't use one on there long term (though I do warm up for TT with the carbon race bike on the turbo.) Just read enough to sow seeds of concern. Cheap turbo mule is the way to go IMO.

I was too late seeing this and i ended up doing the 9.05 race. I finished 9th in a time of 1hr 6s so i shall see how that compares to you weeksy. I was inspired by nathans ride last night and his ability to throw down some big watts in the middle of laps to keep at the front of the race,it was impressive and i adopted the same policy. Only 3 cat A riders got away and to be honest i didnt see them go until too late so i vowed no other rider was going to get away, ended up in a sprint finish with 1A rider and a big bunch of B's. i reckon i could start vying for podium finishes in B class now,deffo closer to them now.
Thanks for the ride on nath.

Cheers mrblobby, I agree re the cheapo turbo bike, unfortuately i doubt my better half does 😆

I'm in for the WBR at 10.05 if anyone fancies it. Just had mate cancel ride tonight, so i'm hitting the turbo for a session.

Gonna do the one at 13.05 as long as I have time to go and fit a tyre onto the Madone! Feeling knackered after a stupidly wet commute yesterday, so will likely be straight out the back!

Completely off topic, but this seems to have taken over from TR as the turbo thread. Is anyone using a carbon bike on the turbo?

Yep, I use a 2004 Madone SL on the turbo (and used it outside until last week too, so it still gets 'proper' use), only a 1050g frame too, which given its age probably makes it pretty ropey, never had a sniff of trouble with it. Given Trek's lifetime warranty I kinda wish it would break.

Great result Nath, interesting analysis too, can't believe that watching the video is as engaging as it is, but I always enjoy it!

I've run a carbon Isaac plenty on it with no issues. These days I mostly run on the parkwood 29er.

Today as usual I found things really hard. I went off too early with the fast lads, once I got dropped I was on no mans land on my own. But the B and C boys were closing so I slightly soft pedalled and waited. We then did another 2 and a bit laps together before I lost the wheels on a slight kick. Once I went off I tried a sprint to make up the gap but it was all over. Hung out to dry for a final solo lap.

My race time for interest seems to have been 1:06:21

Carbon Scott CR1 on the turbo for me, at least 2 years now. Also main outside training bike in the summer. No issues at all.

https://www.zwiftpower.com/profile.php?id=2783035

Here's all that's bad about Zwift racing.. This was one of the guys who marked himself as a C...

Look at his weights...

50-60-40-50-60kg

Yo-yo dieter 🙂

Look at his weights...

50-60-40-50-60kg

LOL i wish... he was an absolute beast on the hills... and mostly overall too, he was one of the main 2 riders leading our group until they blew me apart.
Admittedly, my stats for today look on the wrong side of rubbish though, 4 laps is beyond my peak and requires me either to start slower or go into it more rested, not sure, maybe a bit of both 🙂