Zwift meetups and social rides ?

No problem…I was looking to do something anyway. The only issue I have is that i couldn’t turn off the radio tower on that route. Ah well…pain again.

@slowpuncheur New York…you’re just weird.

@piemonster

😆 in my defence I was on the last sharp corner on the mast climb when posting that

Hallucinating over a nice pork pie?

Anyone want to join next weeks meet-ups/commutes as morning workouts that @oopnorth and I are doing?

6.45am Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning

Monday – SS Workout
Tuesday – Vo2 Max
Wednesday – Active Recovery

I have made some workouts up so if you want to join in PM me your email address and I can send them over.

I did try the belt. Worked for about a week. Looks to me like one of the bearings is shot though – one of the rollers looks to rotate “off” and is misshapen and its *full* of rubber dust.

Going to try doing the belt again this weekend and faff with zwift /ant +/BT a bit and see how I get on.

Jeesh… zwift really does hate you and I eh!

I won’t be around this weekend… Taking a few STW gnarcore riders up the Rogate…

I MIGHT be around for the commute workout at 0645 on Monday.. will see…

DrP

Thanks for the invite @oopnorth but work is going to get in the way. I’ll probably jump on Zwift sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening.

I can’t make tomorrow morning’s ride.  My Wife has arranged to go for a potter with a friend,  so I’ll be looking after the little one.

Hi @oopnorth I will be joining tomorrow’s joy ride !

Neil

Nice Neil…see you there.

If those that can’t make it want to do a Sunday one then I can set it up for you if so. I’m not sure if I’ll be on Sunday or not yet.

I’ll try and join tomorrow morning if that’s ok?

@funkybaj did I send you an invite already? If not then let me know your Zwift name and I’ll send you one.

@oopnorth, I’ve just followed you on Zwift.

Yep…just sent the invite Paul

Cheers for that

Even enjoyed the mast climb

Cheers all, nice friendly ride to start the weekend.

Cheers gents nice ride thanks for organising Craig and Kirk for choosing a super route!!!

Neil

Yeah it worked out ok, thought I would suffer going up but didn’t feel too bad. Even had enough energy to go through the flats afterwards.

Cheers guys, was a good start to the weekend and nice to see Paul and Shaun on the weekend rides.

That was good thanks all, I did some other stuff then Tick Tock and the two shortest routes from London and Yorkshire rounded out at just over 40 miles and it’s only just 11am. Good start to the weekend enjoyed the climb and the route it’s a good one.

Well you have my respect gents. I rolled over at 7am and had a nice lie in. I’m about in the morning for a couple of hours if anyone wants to join me. I’ll check what I’ve got left to do for the badges and post an invite if you’re interested.

I’m considering doing the Fondo ride at 9am but will probably be the shorter one due to time available. Not 100%…depends on red wine indulgence and how velcro the duvet is tomorrow morning 🤣

I’m just looking at that @Oopnorth. I might sign up for the long one but as usual Zwift is a bit light on the details (or at least hides them well!). Any idea what the long route actually is?

A/B/C are gran/medio/bambino fondo respectively.

@@slowpuncheur Think short one includes volcano, hilly KOM maybe both directions plus out to the jungle.

Medium includes the Epic KOM and long one not sure…but guessing you may do jungle again or more KOM.

Thanks for the ride chaps.

I opted for a race around London Loop, can’t believe I havent done that one yet, I didn’t really intend to race properly but as usual got carried away. Rapid start with all CATS together but settled down before the climb up Box Hill. set a PB up the box and then expected a flat finish but little did I know it was a two lap race. Beat the first PB by a second in an effort to stay with my group.

So done by 10am with 45miles and 3700ft in the tank.

Might do the 8.02 Krt/kiss endurance ride tomorrow morning unless something else comes up.

Thanks @Oopnorth. Nowt on ZP yet. A bit more Zwift randomness. I wish they’d spend money on refining their UI before new courses or rowing. I’ll find out in the morning!

It’s a magical mystery tour! You wont know what is coming until you hit it 🙈🙈

Well done Kirky, some effort after the earlier ride with us. I was going to go over the titans after the flats but thought better of it, flashbacks from Tuesdays pain…

@slowpuncheur they have been using the same routes on the Zwift fondo for a couple of years, details here

Thanks @mossimus. That really useful. Looks a good route that. I *think* it avoids radio tower finish but hard to tell.

Sorry @slowpuncheur, I thought you couldn’t even see the route names.

Cat A/long is like @mossimus said (and ends at the top of the Epic, doesn’t go up to radio tower): https://zwiftinsider.com/route/gran-fondo/
Cat B/medium is same finish, same roads, but takes shorter way with less repetition to the Epic https://zwiftinsider.com/route/medio-fondo/
Cat C/short is volcano top finish https://zwiftinsider.com/route/bambino-fondo/

(I think that unlike @robbo1234biking’s superior planning these end right at the KOM line of their respective climbs, which means it’s hit or miss whether zwiftpower will pick up the finish segments. Not that this matters at the end of a fondo…)

Signed up for the for the 3R steady 100 km ride at 7.30 tomorrow morning.

Crazy – I have had 2 days of the bike! Not getting up early tomorrow – Chinese and beer tonight. Depending on weather I might do one of the shorter fondos tomorrow afternoon at 2 but no guarantees! Glad you all had a good ride this morning.

Did bambino condo in November nice little route.

@robbo1234biking I’m signed up for the short one at 9am if you want to join.

Can’t do 9 unless the weather is rubbish as out with the family at 10 so wouldn’t get it done in time. If we decide not to go though I will join you

Well I’m going to try a quick ride in the morning, probably fire and ice to see if my turbo holds. Seems my issue might be zwift recognises the power metre function as three different units, only one of which has controllable resistance, despite it connecting to that as a separate device in theory.

@kirky72 Good to see you this morning on the Fondo John…good to ride with you, well at least until the jungle when I lost you when I changed the bike but saw you later on up the volcano. Gained about 70 places in the jungle but then lost 20 on the way up the volcano to the lighter riders.

Finished around 355 on the road, a good ride though, enjoyed it.

Cheers Craig. I missed my first option for the morn8mg which was a endurance type ride, didn’t make the start time. So just ticked of a french route that I hadn’t done.

Then just jumped onto the first large group ride I could find that wasn’t mega tough. Did well to spot each other amongst 1500 riders.

I took it steady just moving back and forth in the large field, I was 660th when I asked I asked where you were and managed to gain 200 place to catch up to you up the KOM. Finished 201st so gained a lot of places through the jungle and finished pretty strongly up the volcano. Not to shabby as it was approaching 60 miles for the morning.

I carried on bimbling around the volcano area to try and edge into the next level, I had like a 1/100th of mm left after the ride which agonisingly still took another 5 miles to fill. Doesn’t it go so slow at the end of the bar, especially in these mid 30 levels?

I’m not quite sure if anything worthwhile frame or wheel wise as opened up for purchase, will check it next time.

It was a real gift ride for me today…got the Fondo Jersey, levelled up to 32 and got the Yorkshire cap, which I’ll now be wearing (rude not to) and then I got the pinarello dogma for the tour of Italy…wierd it gives you it at 90% completion.

Oh I know it’s not a yorkshire cap but to me it is 🤣🤣

Got on a gp ride this morning and boxed the pretzel off, time passed pretty easy.

Got the 100kph badge coming off the radio mast which was good as I’ve tried it a couple of times and not managed. I’m still not getting the right timing for it though as surely it shouldn’t be too hard at my weight, on that gradient, but it still felt like a massive dig. Was a vegan gp ride and all these skinny blokes saying they crushed 105, 110 no bother. I guess a powerup must take the edge off it, or coming through the group just right (think I was a bit in advance).

Which pretzel was it Garry?

I’ve still not got the 100kph badge yet. They say you need the aero PU to use on the way down from the tower. I almost got it down Ventoux once, got to 98kph and wished I’d just added a bit more grunt.

Did the short fondo this afternoon. I got in the pen nice and early but wife had an appointment (she is a beautician and works out of the spare room) today and i was hoping it would be finished before the start. Alas it wasnt so I waited in the pen a couple of mins after that start and it still hadnt finished so I set of at a slow pace to stay quiet. Didnt go above 200w for the first 30 mins apart from the climbs I think when a slow cadence meant I could keep the turbo quiet.

Started of 1470 out of 1500. When I set of I set myself a target of getting to 1000. By the time we hit the jungle I was up to 1080.I switched to the MTB and got up to 830 by the time we left the jungle. Bottom of the Volcano climb I was 800 and got up to 725 by the end of the climb.

Was a good workout though and a new PB up the Volcano apparently!