Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

I saw you early on, but as I said, that was an insane first few laps. I’d have been curious if they were all in the 4pm as to what would have happened as that was the new zwiftpower rules

Looking, I do believe that’s my last C race. 3.21 overall average now.

There’s some big numbers in the list of C racers. We shouldn’t need a third-party results app to sort this out though. I hope the anti-sandbagging function works for Zwift.

Finished early today so decided to have a go at a race for the first time in over 2 weeks. The 18:45 Royal Pump House 28km 6Points Mallorca GGCC Race was the only one available at the time I wanted.

Really tough course, and tough field of riders. Stayed with front group for about 10km, then fell off back and tried to find a small group to work with. Constant grind up and chase till the end. Finished 7th in B-cat on companion; 1st B rider was 5.59w/kg .. the lowest w/kg ahead of me was pushing 4.43w/kg. I averaged 4.15w/kg which is most I have averaged in a 28km race for quite some time; very happy with that. I have upped my weekly mileage since I started new hours in work and it looks to have benefited my fitness.

And also given the gold cup on ZP.

B gold, awesome job buddy. You can only give your best within the rules we have. Top job.

Hands up. Saw a few stw tags in the 19:30 deeside thistle Apr crit.

Hard shift. I might be up to A shortly averaged 3.8w/kg on. Zp.

Winner of our race aS also 5.06w/kg not a B cat. Just a **** . We operate on zwift power results for our series anyway so they all got expunged from the results for being fudds

I was flying under the radar in that race as well (A Barry BRT). Picked up bronze in A however we were way off the catch.

i was second group on the road with B and the front group of B(sorry i mean Sandbagging As) were just off the chart , no one was catching them

They’ve changed the Zwift HQ stuff again on Zwift Power, still no idea what it means though?

It’s an interesting one.. It says my ZHQ setting is C… but my ZP cat is now a B….

I’ll race B though as it’s time to get better… so will have a try.

Mine’s amusing as apparently have a C-cat 1 minutes, B-cat 5 minute and A-cat twenty minutes!

I’m route ticking currently, across all worlds, trying to build fitness and am throwing some hills into the mix, plus I’m not feeling races at the moment.
Yesterday was Figure 8 reverse followed by the flat loop, today was London’s Triple loop which takes in both Box and Leith hills straight after each other. Both rides around 40km.

Legs are certainly feeling it…

@oop north are you doing the zwiftinsider list of routes?

https://zwiftinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/zwift-routes-checklist.pdf

https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=534678

B.

Meh.

Went too hard. It was stupid fast!!! I’d have crushed C.

The king is dead.

Lol

Which suggests you’d have been sandbagging c

Have to remember front of c is back of b. You likely tried to stay with front pack of b which is a stretch just coming up from c. Need to pace your self

Agree with some of that, but anyone who’s seen my HR data knows I’m not sandbagging, I’m just a good C on this layout.

What’s hr data got to do with it ?

101 /170 isn’t dying on your arse. That’s respectable. You were never gonna be front of the pack on your first time out with them

45th in a large B cat group is very good. As you well know – a lot of the top B cat riders in the bigger groups are A cat riders holding back for the sprint.

Short 16km races are just 20 minutes of pain – well done. And your correct; no time to pace yourself with only 16km to do!

I will be doing the 19:15 ZHR Hare & Hounds race tomorrow. 2 laps/36km of Tick Tock course .. flat and fast. So if anybody wants to make it a STW group, In am willing to pull on the front until my legs pop to try and get somebody a result.

Is it just me, or is drafting in zwift far less beneficial than drafting in real life.

If done 2 races, and got shelled out back in both within 5 min, despite averaging over 300 watts.

Tt’s are only marginally better. In last race put out 3rd highest watts per kilo (in the b’s), and came in bottom half of results. Guy who won averaged 400 watts for 23 min, but only 3 watts per kilo?

Strikes me watts per kilo is totally irrelevant to categories, it’s purely down to how much power you can put out.

W/kg is a climbing metric.

If your TT was on Tempus Fugit most power wins. Just as it would in real life.

Think cancellera his w/kg wouldn’t be great but he would destroy a tt.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with the result.

Finally got around to ordering the replacement belt for my Direto yesterday from https://www.bearingsrus.co.uk/review/product/list/id/60401/ (thanks to Nixie’s link) and I’ve had the dreaded “Sorry it’s out of stock due to high demand and it will be 2-3 weeks before we get new stock, do you still want to proceed with sale?” e-mail.

Now watch it tip down with rain for the next few weeks!

Is it just me, or is drafting in zwift far less beneficial than drafting in real life.

@tpbiker probably, which is why they introduced the optional Double Draft. Still only used by a minority of races I think (rarely done events with it myself) but you can check out which ones have it using ZwiftHacks

Did one of the WTRL team TTs last night – that is a good format, seen it mentioned by a few of you on here. Was a mixed ability team (2xB, C, and a D) so ended up as more of a sweetspot effort, but still a nice dynamic keeping the pace together to get that fourth person over the line.

Reckon a well-matched team would turn you inside out – 120% effort on a turn then back in the wheels close to threshold.

I’d be up for entering as part of an stw TTT team as a cat c/d if anyone else wants to give it a go.

I’ll ride with ya dobski

Is it just me, or is drafting in zwift far less beneficial than drafting in real life.

I’m sure I spotted 25% mentioned somewhere which is huge, but I do think it’s very hard to judge (for me so far at least) when you’re actually drafting and when you’re not.

Guy who won averaged 400 watts for 23 min, but only 3 watts per kilo?

I find that difficult to believe, 21st and fit as a butcher’s dog? I get that vunipola isn’t playing rugby at the moment but you’ve been very unlucky to meet him in zwift. (your opinion may vary of course).

I’d be up for entering as part of an stw TTT team as a cat c/d if anyone else wants to give it a go.

I’d be happy to have a bash if times work, can’t promise I’ll be any good mind but TT would do me the world of good.

I’d be up for entering as part of an stw TTT team as a cat c/d if anyone else wants to give it a go.

I’d be happy to have a bash if times work, can’t promise I’ll be any good mind but TT would do me the world of good.

I’d be up for this too. It looks mighty complicated to enter (the first time? probably makes sense after that). I’m a C.

i could be up for a Team TT . B cat here if theres any takers for a B team ?

B cat here if theres any takers for a B team ?

I might tip into that, but I’m rubbish. On experience and results I should be D…

B cat here … If you need👍

robbo1234biking
@oop north are you doing the zwiftinsider list of routes?

Sorry for the late response Robbo, I’m not following a list really, just randomly picking ones I haven’t yet done depending how I feel on the day.

I’m up for some TT action, Just scraped into A because I’m short and light-ish but more B if we’re talking TT = More Watts Win

I’ve just had a look at the sign-up procedure – what a pain in the tits that looks!

Clicky Linky

It didn’t sound that bad until the start time nonsense

It’s actually not too bad – just the start is weird with the not pedalling thing, team needs to ahve someone unequivocally in charge for that bit to say go.

It’s a third party running the event on the zwift platform so it’s not a seamless integration as far as setting-up goes. But once you’re actually racing it’s great – the game doesn’t string you out in a line like a real life TT but it’s still obvious who is taking a turn, who’s sitting in, and who’s hanging on for dear life!

I’m happy to handle the fiddly bit of the sign-up process if people are interested.

I could ride in the morning (10.20) or evening (6.15, 6.30 and 7.40) slots next Thursday.

So far, tentative noises have come from:
Garry_Lager (category?)
kelvinshuffle A/B
weeksy B
trail_rat B
mooman B
savoyad C
IvanDobski C
dangeourbrain D

So if the faster ones (B+) don’t mind riding with us slower ones (C/D) we could enter a mixed team into “latte” or “mocha” depending on who is available / wants to ride / how many we are. It’s forgiving of exact category choice (i.e. the rules re-categorise you rather than the usual zwiftpower dq) so there’s some flexibility depending on how it pans out. Alternatively if fast people want to go fast, and pretty much everyone is up for it, we might need two smaller teams.

I’m happy in a bcd

I’m a B savoyad – defo interested in a stw team but depends on what my other team is doing. Can confirm next week.