Zwift meetups and social rides ?

you can pretty much do anything you want

Turns out stairs are outside that range this morning!

God knows what I did yesterday that’s made my legs feel like they don’t articulate, I imagine it’s phil’s urging a final push for the line that’s to blame.

Hopefully they’ll pick up across the next couple of hours, though I’m thinking sprint race this evening should be revised down to something sedate!

@DrP may I have an invite for Sunday please? Gavin swavis Belton-STW is my Zwift name. Cheers

Yeah, great workout Robbo @ OopNorth! Just tried to get out of my office chair & struggled 🙂

I’ve already ridden further this January, than I did in the whole of Jan 2020 and it’s only the 8th!

I need to have a tinker with the Garmin cadence sensor on my turbo bike. I think the battery is dead & it needs re-positioning. I am not convinced my turbo trainer gives good cadence info.
Drivetrain also needs some attention, but I’ve been saying that since about September!

Thanks @stumpy01 and @robbo1234biking for the early pain fest, although it wasn’t too bad today…next week will be worse with the less recovery!

See you all for various meetups over the weekend! I’ll probably be getting slower as the weekend goes on 🤣🤣

swavis… i’ve followed you..follow back (like and share, and smash the subscribe button..) and i’ll ping an invite

DrP

On it!

Edit – I didn’t realise NY was so hilly 😉

I’ll not be able to join today I seem to have some hamstring pain today so will opt for less miles and flat with some stretching and foam roller, Have a good ride today 🙂

Sorry to hear that Forge, hope it’s nothing top bad and you are up and running soon.

@oopnorth thanks me to, have had before so know the signs and what to do and not do 👍. I’ve a revised Sunday exercise plan now 🙂

@forge197 Movies and cups of tea…a bacon sarnie? 🤣

I’ll come play as I’m bored. Don’t see me making 4 sets of climbs but I’ll come and see where the world takes me

You got an invite weeksy?

I had my covid Jab yesterday, so if I start pressing the virtues off windows 98, you’ll know why…

DrP

@oppnorth 🤣 that could work 😂

Movies and cups of tea…a bacon sarnie? 🤣

Is that an option this morning?

Cheers for organising DrP. Felt like I had a terrible ride but got PBs on both climbs at an average of 320w so can’t have been that bad! An hour was enough for me today though. It’s very hard to stay together in NY!

Was going ok with the bunch until I hit a 45s dropout, then another, then another. Not sure what’s going on there.
Thanks to DB I got dragged back and had a bit more, then waited for Rick and rode a bit more before bailing at 50 min.

Thanks fellas, see you in Feb.

Thanks chaps for the ride. Once Robbo left I solo’d the 2 climbs and even got a pb on the reverse! Then completed the 2 laps…the ride finish was 2km past the normal finish line…how come?

I was picking up the odd message as I went overhead or under the group, even picked up Brian and Rick at one point so they must have been still riding.

Thanks again for the hill pain! 🤣

Cheers for organising DrP. I was doing ok and on for smashing 40s off the third time up the KOM but it froze about 5 seconds from the banner. Estimated time was 4:20 too, I’d even upped to 400w for about 10s as well, gah!
I was on my own then for the last 10.5km so just took it easy and rolled home on my own.

Edit- and what kind of sicko would make you ride that climb FOUR times 😆

That was a good leg stretcher. It’s a tough route. Thanks for leading @DrP. If thats how you climb after the vaccine I might have to lie about my age to the authorities.

@DrP – thanks for organising, good fun as always, but that glass climb is horrible!!!

I was gonna join this morning’s ride, but going up and down the ladder taking Christmas lights down has left me with a very stiff left quad 😆🙄 so I decided I should rest it.
If I get the chance later I might go out for a spin but got sweet spot session with Robbo, OopNorth & Dangeourbrain tomorrow, then the Bologna TT on Tuesday so don’t want to do myself a mischief…

Thanks for coming guys…

The finish was 2km after as I know the route was 22ish km… and wanted 2 laps, so had to estimate WITH the lead in!

DrP

Lessons from today’s ride:

1) Never let DrP choose the route.
2) New York is every bit as horrible as you think.
3) Really, don’t let DrP choose.
4) try not to pick worlds on rotation, very very difficult to see your group with that many folks.

Cheers for the ride though folks, other than the glass hill. The glass hill. The glass hill. Oh and another time up that bloody hill for good measure, that was good ta.

Thanks @drp and everyone else.

That route is great. That’s presumably why it was so busy!

I’m going to rest up until Tuesday now. I feel about TTs the way you lot feel about glass climbs.

And another cheers @DrP from me.

I’m glad I joined in. Rare for me to able to ride on a Sunday morning. I knew it was going to be a tough ride. I’m thankful that Brian held back and encouraged me to complete the ride.
Pity there wasn’t a cafe stop half way round.

The finish was 2km after as I know the route was 22ish km… and wanted 2 laps, so had to estimate WITH the lead in!

As I crossed the “line” and still saw distance to go I thought “that [insert insult of choice] has set the finish for the top!”

Yeh if you choose a world on rotation then Meet-up only view is a good option. It is very busy on Zwift at the moment which is prob why people are getting so many drop outs.

Another good thing about today. I’ve no routes left in NYC so never ever need to go back!

Thanks @drp – I enjoyed that route in a perverse way, perhaps because the glass hill is the first climb I ever did on Zwift and it seems like something out of Futurama.

@phil56 thanks for the tow around the last few miles to nearly catch the others by the end.

The main thing with new York is that silly bit once you leave the park. I actually quite like the central park routes but once you get onto that blue thing there’s nothing to see, everything looks the same so there’s no real feeling of progress, oh and the gradient changes are downright odd.

Given they put Surrey a short tube ride from Central London I’d have thought they could have done similar for New York, to be honest just riding some of the subways would probably be quite good in a something different sort of way, but the strange 5th element esque thing is just, well, rubbish.

I really found today enjoyable…I think mainly due to the group effort and dynamics, so thank you!

It can be dull riding ina world of many, but you don’t know anyone! I found the time shot by with a bit of chat and group effort!

DrP

I think mainly due to the group effort and dynamics

Absolutely this – and if that’s what you enjoy, you really should think about joining one of the Thursday TTT – that’s exactly what they’re all about

Yeh cheers guys, NY is much more bearable as a group. I lost my chain on the inner side so couldn’t pedal back on and had to unclip to sort it. So lost Ian and Phil, completed the ride but didn’t see any Stw again.

I felt like a few miles recovery so jumped on one of the tour rides at Richmond planning to enjoy the massive group draft and bail before the climbs. However by the time came I was enjoying passing riders and felt refreshed so took the series of climbs pretty full on passing 350 riders along the way. Then told myself just cool down now on the flats for a few miles but then thought I was a shame to do just 3 miles shy of finishing it so completed taking the hills a bit steadier the second time.

Pretty tough fifty odd miles so pretty knackered now, will enjoy a rest tomorrow.

but the strange 5th element esque thing is just, well, rubbish.

I was thinking about this riding in NYC yesterday. I’d convinced myself that they’d have been better setting it in 1980s New York. Then I remembered they’d have to decide whether to include WTC, the Sci Fi style bypasses that I guess.

Yeah, I get that I suppose – though a 30s new York would have solved it too and not seemed so silly.
Thing is the brooklyn bridge etc are iconic, could easily have been done and dumped you straight into up state of the rockies for all it matters

All that being said, they should have just done San Francisco anyhow.

I think SF would make a great Zwift city and probably a good UCI worlds course too. Plenty of sharp climbs and some iconic views.

It turned out I had ridden those some climbs before but hell of a lot slower than today, pbs on every incline today the main KOM in both directions by 4.5 to 5 minutes taking more off the time then it too to climb them today.

I somehow seemed to PB each section of the climbs in Richmond as well, which is more surprising given we raced it in the first Tuesday series. Hopefully I’ve not burned out before Tuesday.

If they do this years uci champs course in Flanders with its narrow punchy cobbled climbs it should be fantastic. Have they done the uci course every year or been selective about it?

No Doha (thankfully, imagine.), no Bergen. I’m not sure about what they intended this year, because it was so close to the Olympics and I’m pretty sure they had that ready to go. If both happen IRL next year, that might reduce the chances of Zwift doing Flanders I suppose.

Also @kirky72 surprising himself with fatigued hill-PBs in Richmond 40 miles into a Sunday eventathon is pretty ominous for the rest of us.