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After a day of chopping kindling up went to go for a bimble on zwift and the monitor has packed in.
You can always use the Zwift app on your Android mobile while you are without a monitor.
Been having a typical dither and delay about what to do regarding cycling today on a day off work... Given it's dry and will be wet on Friday, part of me says go for an outdoor ride, but there's a stiff easterly breeze that be a headwind heading out to Warnford and beyond. Another part of me says do a turbo session, out of the wind and I can stop whenever without being stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Just looked at my Strava bike log, I've not been outdoors on the road bike since 21st September, or 17th September for a vaguely "proper ride" due to carp weather and then my cold (which now seems to be shifting). Even going for a short 20-30 mile ride now seems daunting ffs. :/
i went out prior to going away with work and had a wail of a time on the mtb. without breathing out my arse thanks to my zwift work
one sadly vastly overestimates my phones ability - it doesnt do zwift 🙁
Managed to procure a TV for some beer from a work colleague who has it cluttering his attic
Managed to procure a TV for some beer from a work colleague who has it cluttering his attic
Richer Sounds are knocking out a 65" 4K LED TV for £399 if you need an upgrade
65 inch .... id be able to replace the garage doors with that......and id still look like the Zwift TV advert pretty much inside the screen.
I'm firmly in the 50 quid TV camp....be it for the front room or the garage.
Gentle cruise round today, just up to the jungle, round and down. Nothing too tough and certainly no races today, trying not to kill my legs every day at the moment.
Another short TT for me tonight - currently hoping the 4w/kg guys in B get 'upgraded' 🙂
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=239832
Weird double post - sorry!
The 28k Team Italy Gladiators Race this evening. The relentless Harrogate circuit .. which feels like climb after climb!
Stayed with the front group of A-cat riders for half a lap .. then with the chasing group of about 5 A-cat riders until almost the start of the 2nd lap ... they gapped me on a climb close to the end and distanced me on the little descent;there was no way I could close the gap on the descent!
From there I was in no mans land between a little group I couldnt catch and the chasing B-cat riders a minute behind. Some how I managed to stay away from them with 20 seconds to spare at the end ... first Gold cup in the B-cat since I started back, and watts only about 20w down from where I was before the layoff.
Round 6 of Dirt Cup on the Figure 8.
Hour earlier start due to US not putting clocks back yet apparently. 6pm start is too early and got on with 2 minutes to spare on laptop due to the halloween update killing the old desktop which didn't even load Zwift in time.
Missing some of the regulars too.
Quite a few Bs out of category but an oh so steady start. Reasonably hard up reverse KOM which thinned the lead group to 20. I did a little attack before the sprint after the Ss but sat up and cruised round generally. Work but not balls out. I need to work on my positioning before climbs as I keep ending up on the front just before then get swamped and and up near the back as they start.
Up the KOM at a pretty hard pace and tag onto the leading 6 or so. Couple off the front but they are pulled back on the downhill.
Without the laptop for ZP I can't tell who I'm actually racing and can only remember 1 who was a C at the start (they went way over and DQed in the end) so hit the final proper climb after the sprint hard to see who got shook out or at least hurt everyone. Sit in for the sprint which went from about 400m. Got tucked in nicely but no power above 500w so came in 2nd of what was left of real Cs. The annoyance is that the Bs meant little attacks by me pulled the Bs away from the Cs and meant it was easy to keep away in a group of 6 or so. If it had been me and another we'd have had to properly work to stay away for the last few km.
Anyway 2 more events to ensure a final position and comfortably in the lead on average points.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=239808
1405 6 Lap Classique Flat, slightly longer race today, should have gone outside, nice day but prioritised other stuff so had a 90 minute window this afternoon, and couldn't be bothered to faff about, so stayed in, however the legs were tired after yesterday, and despite spinning round for 15 minutes at 130w i still felt leggy at the start, started off very quick, northumberland hill in the lead in was enough to string out the blob, then it snapped, A+ and A's with a B or 2 got away, ended up in a group of 10 or so, horse guards every lap strung it output everyone stayed together for most of the laps, not over fast, about 250w average for the first 5 laps,
then it got fast, 300w av for the last lap, but the km ticker was all over, at the 1km to go banner, we had 1km to go, at 300m to go i go, not a sprint but powering for the line, then it clicks, 600m to go, but the outer doesn't drop at the speed were doing, then the counter started going up when we got to 500m to go, up to 650m or so, then it clicks to 2.2km to go, 1 goes with 500m to go, i follow, i keep going, then 3/4 pass me, but die off, "kick again" 1 got me, everyone else behind, happy with that
so what was going on the km ticker? essentially we finished where should have, just the false info didn't help
5th in B, nice string of people on the same time but behind me for once is nice to see
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=240351
Did a 3R Classique crit today- as a light A at 65kg I’m often left ha find on at the end of most races due to not having enough raw watts and also because I get carried away and attack when others sit in. So this time I raced for the result and rode for the finish. Ended up with my best 15s power and 6th, my best zwift performance yet! The punchy climb helped soften legs of the bigger riders I think!
6:05 rigo to giro tomorrow 131km 2.5 round dust in the wind.... Basically fuago flats /titans grove /out to jungle and back
slightly frustrating race today, 1650 3 lapper innsbruckring flat, big crowd at the start 180+ a&b started in a pen behind c&d so we ended up smashing through a big crowd which made it hard to work out who was where, ended up in the front group anyway, was fast, of course it exploded everywhere up the hill, the frustrating part - 5 B's and an A grouped up and got away as a 2nd group on the road maybe, did my group of 20+ want to work and catch them? did they arse! they held a 15-20 second gap for well over a lap, i went to the front, did a turn but as soon as i sat back in the pace dropped off again, we finally got them, just before the hill on lap 3, strings everyone out again, end up towards the back and win a nothing sprint of 3, just think if we could have got them earlier, or kept the pace higher lap then it would have been a different race
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=241366
Did 65km of the rigo to giro. Couldn't face the jungle loop a second time.
The rolling resistance guff has ruined jungle loop It's like pedaling through treacle.....don't mind going slow on climbs but when it's flat 20kph @300watt isn't right.
Jungle is really slow now on road bike, pays to stop and swap to mountain bike.
Alternatively I just won't do another ride that goes through jungle loop.
Anyone suffering ant+ dropouts since last couple of updates (probably since Thursday)? Never had any issues and now both power meter and HRM are dropping out.
Nopes. All fine yesterday
I was intending to do the 130km Rigo to Giro ride today. I got an hour and a half in and was so bored! forced myself to sit on for another hour to get to 80km ... just had to get off before I had a mental breakdown!!!
Zwift time flies when your racing - but just following the herd with no real incentive its still as painfully boring as a normal turbo.
It felt worse than just plodding round on your own with no aim.
It was a super cop out to do 2.5 laps of that..
I did 66k and I'd done titans grove 3 times. No need. But I guess they wouldn't go over the epic Kom or up volcano because of the fatlads.
I wasn't going back into the jungle. It was pretty shite.
Funny isn't it, I did 65km yesterday on greater London flat and it was not only a bit dull but completely not the same as being outside.
Outside you get to drop your HR on the downs, shake the legs out, wave the arms around for circulation etc, but on Zwift it's just constant, pedal pedal etc. No respite, no recovery and of course no fun, without racing anyway.
I went outside for 50km instead today and it was pretty much the exact same pedalling time elapsed as yesterday, but so so much more enjoyable
Not once this morning did I wish I was outside....the rain was coming through the walls of my garage and the wind was trying to lift the roof off......and it still wasn't daylight by the time I stepped off the bike.
Yesterday did 110km in gale force winds and driving rain, nearly 5 miserable hours that felt like 10. Housebound with my 4 year old this morning, did an hours group ride on Zwift, 3 laps volcano flat, time flew by.
Every day is different.
I'm with trail rat and mooman on this one - I managed 50km before I lost the will to continue 🙂
Anyone suffering ant+ dropouts since last couple of updates (probably since Thursday)? Never had any issues and now both power meter and HRM are dropping out.
anyone struggling graphically since the last update, I'm on a 2012 MacBook pro with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1 GB according to the specs,
have the bumped the specs you need to run it?
https://zwift.com/hardware#zwift
Well that was more fun than the rigo to giro .
Was supposed to be a Z2.
Saw road to the sky availible on ride list since I got to l12 last ride.....so had to be done. 57.58 and i finished the Everest challenge so I got the emonda frame. Not sure I'll ever get up it quicker haha one of them things that is easier on sight than knowing what's coming
19.25 tonight Deeside thistle/Moray Firth CC Crit series.
London Classique.
anyone else in ?
16:00 for the Namibian for me.
19:55 Mini Crit for me.
18:55 Dirt Cup for me. 2 laps of Innsbruckring for us weak people. 4 for the rest.
Currently no real competition signed up :0(
One who looks like he'd beat me in a sprint but will probably drop him over the little hill.
Oh and if any legit Cs want to help me out then full gas up the little hill on the first lap would be just peachy. If you're still there on the second drill it from the cobbly bit to the hill on the second lap :0)
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=243766
Decent effort for me, played it intelligently mostly but lost my group 7.5km from the end which killed off any chance of a podium. In my defence, I'm on a fasting day today lol, but happy with result..
My lad then jumped on and unlocked himself the MTB.
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First ever event today..a 8.4 km tt. Put myself in the b category and came in mid pack.
Had assumed I'd keep it steady until the climb with 2km to go, then power through the field to the win. Unsurprisingly didn't pan out like that and I ground to a halt with about 500 m to go.
Guy who won the b's was putting out 383 watts average..making the entire clarification thing a bit of a farce.
Well that was suboptimal
My kickr core killed its self rather than be used by me.
Jumped on warmed up with steady increasing efforts. Did 2 big power pb sprints and then it went to 0 and stayed there.....
Tried resetting everything updating firm ware repairing etc. Can see the kickr can connect to it but still power and speed are still deader than a can of spam
No race for me
Any thoughts ? I've noised up tech support already.
T_R I've had that caused more by the ANT+ than the trainer itself.
In the pairing are you seeing 'not connected' if you try to pair it again ?
TP, he'll get disqualifed unless i'm missing something, what time was that ?
TP, thinking out loud, that's likely because it's based upon 20 mins power and he was only 13 mins for the race, so it's not enforced in the same way.
No it connects no bother
Won't register power
Connected via Bluetooth using the wahoo utility . Again no bother with it connecting but zero power reading.
Everything's been on and off and plugged and unplugged more than once tried it with the phone off and just the computer....nothings changed.
If worked fine for warm up. Then died. In the start pen
HAd that many moons ago.. I think i ended up sending that Snap back and getting a new one.
I also had it once or twice when it got proper chilly... it was cold earlier, but not THAT cold i don't think.
I'd leave powered off and see tomorrow.
Yay finally won a round on ZP and Zwift App.
Steady away. 2 went off up the hill and I chased and got a gap but didn't commit to catching them at the top. Sat up half way to the sprint and it was all back together on the turn to the finish. Then very steady. Someone took a flyer before the junction up to the big climb and we let him dangle. Soon came back on the little hill. About 4th over the top with random A way in front with another inbetween. The other was pulled back then back to a decent power output but nothing silly.
The distance to finish is still playing silly buggers so the sprint kicked off with about 800m to go. Had to go hard to stay in touch then it slowed and only 3 of about 8 left together at the front.
300m to go and gritted my teeth and gave myself a good talking to to produce over 600watts and cruised over the line with half a second to spare. Shame the guy in 2nd overall turned up but didn't race.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=244579
I think that's probably as near as my perfect course could be at Innsbruckring.
Congrats sir... well done.
Googling says there's an issue with an optical sensor on them.
Mini Crit - 2 laps London Classique. Individual cat starts for this one, normal hectic start then it settled right down, In lead group 30+ Cs, along the embankment we were cruising at a very modest 220W. lost a few off the back on climb up to Trafalgar sq, pace then picked up a bit and after the Whitehall rise on lap 1 we were down to under 20, on last lap we got overtaken by leading Bs only 3 of us managed to latch onto the B group. Got distanced along with another C on last climb, managed to grab a wheel and got towed back, going under 1km banner 8 of us together including my 2 rival C riders. Managed to stay with group on final straight along with one other C , had no sprint so finished 2nd C on road, 1st on ZP. 3.3W/Kg which may make by best 3 average over 3.2,
Weeksy, I think he did it in 17 min something. It was the 6.30 brt tt league.
I obviously misunderstood how it works but had kind of assumed that you were not allowed to exceed 4 watts per kilo for the event or you'd be knocked into the higher category - i averaged pretty much bang on that (3.97) however 6 folks managed over 4 w/kg. So basically it looks like I can put out whatever I like during a tt and not be bumped up or disqualified?
Only if it's under 20 minutes long.
Your category on ZP is worked out by applying 95% of your bes 20minute effort in an event. So you can push 4.2.
Top 3 folks last night had higher than 4.2. Winner had 4.51.
It's your last 3 AVE 20minute power if event is less than 20minutes it doesn't correct.
I'm a b and do the 2k series at 6w/kg....should I be an A ?
It was under 20 minutes for them though.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=243790
Winner doesn't do that in most events if you click through. Rarely on the podium.
2nd and 3rd have barely raced and don't know what category they should be in although currently B is right.
Click the "View 95%" button above the results to see what it's based upon.
Winner was 3.8wkg
Clearly that rider can do that for 20 minutes but hasn't so far in an event over 20 minutes. To me they are a legit B.
TTs are you against the course. The guy with the most watts depending on elevation should win on Zwift.
Try a race rather than a TT.
There's a disconnect between Zwift rules and what the ZP community has decided on.
The ZP one makes more sense as it sets limits on performance numbers rather than just saying 4wkg but no definintion and no enforcement from Zwift themselves.
Eventually when Zwift decide to enforce it I may become a B with current results as I'm right on the C limit. (bit worried about the TT coming up in the current series as I may go over the limit :0) It's Bologna and in theory I won't finish in under 20 minutes which means my WKG might go over. I'm not going to hold back but I may have a hard session the day before...