Zwift meetups and social rides ?

abyone not in shout asap

Ah…1115 now…,?

DrP

Cheers for the invite Weeksy but wife doing yoga so can’t make it. Going to clean zwift bike instead, feels like it needs done.

yes 11:15

Got no new invite…

See you there

I’ve accepted new one and think I’m next to you now!

Steve – Southside Johnnie please

Me me me

That’s it, cheers Steve

who are ya stumpy ? lost you

Well I’m in the new one

K Allen stw stumpy01

Why am I so far away from you all!

DrP

add me again stumpy

No invite as yet

Think I just added you again. Might be too late…

Blimey. Should have just gone for a ride in the sun, I think…

Couldn’t get an invite sorted. Came out of Zwift and back into Watopia, no signal from anything – trainer, HR monitor….all dead. Restart Zwift again…..seems to be ok now.

Hope you had a good ride?

Cheers for the ride chaps. I made 1013w ok the second sprint but then this happened…

Stripped the end of the thread on the bottom two bolts!

Holy Crap! At least it happened on the trainer!

Just done a tough 45mins on Sand & Sequoias….I treated the undulating bit in the trees like a stand-up sit-down spin class….

How was the group ride?

was like herding sheep 🙂

🤣

Cheers for organising Steve, enjoyed that.

Was bloody hard! I picked the wrong group!

was like herding sheep 🙂

Were you a grumpy shepherd or an excitable collie though?

Thanks for the tow back Weeksy, did myself in the sprint and was pushing well above my grade to get back.  Managed to finish in the group (if you could call it that) so pleased with that.

I enjoy them plenty. It’s no all about going full chat every ride, it was great trying to keep the group together

Got dropped on hill and then ended up between the two groups. There was some hard chasing at the end!

Thanks as always weeksy and everyone else

Thanks @weeksy – really appreciate the effort you make to herd us sheep!
Cheers!

Solid group good that good work all, and thanks again Steve these rides have really helped get my mojo back I really appreciate you organising..and shepherding.

I chose to do the FTP test (short one) instead of the 2nd race. 183 score which by my calcs gives is 2.1w/kg – how does that compare with you guys? I guess losing the weight is relatively easier than increasing power?

Only been doing Zwift a month and up to 207 from 177.  This give me about 2.5-2.6.  You get a good tow from the group though, the first 30 mins is not too bad unless you do too much going with a fast group or in a sprint. Im gasping at the end though.

I’m going to add my thanks again.

Steve it is very much appreciated

Without these rides I simply wouldn’t do it. They’ve been instrumental in getting me back on a bike after nearly 2 years.

I can feel a bit of long lost fitness slowly returning also.

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😀👍👍👍👍👍👍

Lol stop it.

I do it all for me not you.

Stfu you lot

jaminb
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I chose to do the FTP test (short one) instead of the 2nd race. 183 score which by my calcs gives is 2.1w/kg – how does that compare with you guys? I guess losing the weight is relatively easier than increasing power?

You could probably get that number up just by doing a few more, there is a definite knack to them.

They are grim though! Alternatively try a race that will last around 30 mins.

Edit: my FTP is 276 and I weigh 76 kg

Yeah, weeksy….organising these is much appreciated, even when it goes a bit wrong 🙂

It’s definitely forcing me to try a bit harder on all Zwift rides!

Calibrated the trainer after today’s session and it was a bit loose. Not sure if that makes the trainer over or under estimate.

well done all – “saw” you out there earlier whilst sat on the bog 😬😖🤪😎 !

I’m off for a ride just now. An actual ride ! Can’t quite believe it

You get a good tow from the group though

I didn’t half notice when I fell out the back of the group at one point yesterday, I stopped pedaling for a second and you were all gone, had to put a serious effort in to get back on, over 400W…it was fairly speedy yesterday!

I did the Richmond UCI as a warm up beforehand and wanted to complete it but only gave myself 30 minutes before the group ride, I think I killed myself too much and didn’t leave enough for the ride 🙂 Legs are feeling it today.

I’m with you on that oop north, I’m a total Zwift novice and rarely ride in a group of more than 2 on the road.  I took a breather after the second sprint and lost the group and had to push getting on 400W to get back, if it wasn’t for not wanting to drop out I’d have have given up, I guess this is how you improve though.  I got on my real bike later in the day to go out with the family for our one a day and could hardly move my legs to start with.

Here’s an interesting (kind of) observation I noted on the most recent meetup… My second fan (Honeywell turbo..brill) arrived in the week, so I had 2 fans blowing on me… I felt SOOOO much more comfortable, and was able to keep up higher watts for longer without becoming a floppy sweaty mess.

Reading into the science of it all, the fact that we are only 25% efficient means that for each 200w of power we make, we need to ‘remove’ 600w of heat. I for one ride ‘really hot’..i.e unless it’s sub zero temps, I wear barely anything on the bike when out and about. Thus it makes sense that performance/ability will drop off if you overheat.

The book ‘Bicycling science’ has a good chapter on this too. You really DO drop performance if you’re too hot or dehydrated.

Anyways…. just a thought to say that there’s no need to be a full on sweaty mess, and having decent fannage may add a few watts to your legs without even trying!!

DrP

I would recommend this fan. I run it on settin one majority of the time but it is excellent.

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