Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Found my borrowed turbo was in the list of devices, now telling me 185W. Does this seem more likely

Seems far more plausible

I’m up for a TTT on Thurs if you need a reserve.

I’m also up for a TTT

But not that late in the day, in generally up around 5am and am no use to anyone from 8pm onwards

But not that late in the day

I’m not wedded to the time, there’s a 6pm, 6.30pm and 7pm option too that I can see, any of which should work for me.

If folk who are interested stick up what’s best for them and we’ll find the one (or two if we’ve enough bodies) most can make.

I’m fine with whatever works for everyone

Earlier rather than later, but I’ll ride whatever suits everyone

Earlier is better for me.

@weeksy Thanks!

I don’t mind doing the entry again. Consensus seems to be for a bit earlier than last time. There is more choice now as well. It looks like 6pm, 6.30 or 7 would be best for most people.

Unless there’s an outcry in response to this post, I’ll put an entry in the 6.30 race later today.

piemonster and dknwhy – what category does zwiftpower say you are?

I’ll confirm which pen and, assuming there are riders who didn’t ride last week, repost the step by step joining instructions later.

Zwift Power says that I’m C almost B.

If you’re on Zwift today, my missus is on for the first time, riding 108km as a fundraising event with her work on behalf of the charity I work for – she’s on as Catriona.Pratt (SiMY) EY 2.6 or something like that. If you could give her a ‘ride on’ it’d be much appreciated.

If you fancy throwing a couple of quid her way, you can do that via Just Giving

Searching for “Catriona Pratt” (note no dot) finds her. Nearly 13k in 👍.

I’m in for the TTT and the earlier the better but not fussed if it needs to be later. According to ZwiftPower I’m officially back to being a Cat C again – unfortunately…

Ok, what’s the TTT format then?

Hang on as long as you can?

Looking at some of the activities for the last one I’m not sure I’d hold this watts for that long.

Did the Newbury Velo RR 70km again today aka Portugal vs the World, 660 entrants!   Increased my power over 1hr:45 to 3.4wkg average, PB’d all the climbs and managed the SuperTuck well.   Preliminary 7th C with that power(!), theres some very dodgy results to sort out in that race – for example the c 1st &2nd C’s coming in at 3.8wkg.

For me thats a good performance, what more can you do!

Did the Shane Williams ride this morning .

He’s got a fair pace about him.

Not as good a long ride as the Vikings vahalla lot -that drive a consistant pace. This was quite variable which I found quite tough…..and no one wanted to do intermediate sprints for the primes 🙁

Difficulty was compounded by my internet being intermittent for first 30km. Riding along at a constant pace hoping your Still in the pack when you get web back….nope 8 seconds out the back gah. Into the red.

101km in the bank without leaving the house. The turbo shed has never looked so good. Gave it a tidy up and a sweep last night. Quite a pleasent place to be now

Ok, what’s the TTT format then?

Hang on as long as you can?

More or less

Looking at some of the activities for the last one I’m not sure I’d hold this watts for that long.

You’ll be fine.

It’s very much in the “don’t phone, it’s just for fun” vein.

Difficulty was compounded by my internet being intermittent for first 30km. Riding along at a constant pace hoping your Still in the pack when you get web back….nope 8 seconds out the back gah. Into the red.

I like the Valhalla and ZHR rides for constant Z2 over 100k/2:30+ also.   That ^^ happened to me last week – sitting nicely in a pack and actually not really feeling very fit at 2.5wkg, when the the internet came back I was 16 seconds out the back riding solo and it extended my misery by about 4 mins as a result.

I forget then, but I use my phones hotspot instead of the wifi.  Its more consistent than our wifi.  I have a Smarty 30GB/£10 plan, and a 2:30 ride uses about 800mb of date so its easily accommodate over the month.

Our team is entered. 6.30pm on Thursday, 2 laps of Greater London Flat.

Now you each need to sign up as individual riders. We need between 3 and 8 people. Here’s what to do:

1. On zwift, enter the event. It’s here: https://www.zwift.com/events/view/655732. Enter CATEGORY A (it’s not done on w/kg, ignore that. Just enter Category A). Do this asap.

2. On zwiftpower, tag your name with our team name, which is STW. Put it in brackets. So login to zwiftpower.com…zwift profile…settings and change Rider Name to “[yourridername] (STW)”. Do this any time before the race starts. If you don’t yet have a zwiftpower account, be warned there’s some hassle involved in setup.

3. Discord worked well for voice comms last week. The STW server is here https://discord.gg/UP6kv6. Check you can get in.

Exact start times (it’ll be shortly after the 6.30pm event time, riders sit in the pen waiting) will be published later in the week. I’ll post again when that info is available.

Thanks for organising Savoyad – I’ve entered

Aye, i’m in… Entered.

Entered.

Done thank you savoyad

According to ZwiftPower I’m officially back to being a Cat C again – unfortunately…

So I don’t know how it works or why it’s different on ZP to WTRL’s own rankings but, erm, we placed 1st though 5th in Frappe on ZP so you got back into C with a podium Ivan 🙂

Yeah I saw that!

The none official websites do a great job but the sooner zwift bring excepting in-house the more straightforward things should be.

Good luck for Thursday, gutted to miss it unless anyone fancies 10.20 in the AM session!

Got on a B crit earlier – Lord have mercy that is a sharp effort for 20 mins, feeling it now four hours later. Had mixed results hanging with the lead group in these, managed it once in a smaller field, but dropped off with 2 laps to go last time out. This time went very deep and was on the premises last lap, but no – shelled out on that rise after the rollers as the group wound up.

Annoying not to hang on that little bit more, but truth is I was starting to crack on the lap before – got off the bike dizzy. Placed sixth on zp with the remnants of the lead gp. Saw @dangeourbrain stretching his legs in the results – how did ye find it?

Beast of a rider won the Bs – 400W for the crit at 102 kg, would have won the A class.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=630371

– how did ye find it?

First cat b race, first crit and I was quite pleased, managed to pick up the front group off the line but took too much effort from way back as I was very late getting into the race so only held in for about 8 laps.
Picked up the second group and held with them till the line absolutely bang in the middle of the ZP results so relatively pleased.

It felt a lot harder than the stats said though!

MMMMM Crit race fun !!!! Jealous and great results.

It’s horrible when you’re watching the group just sneak away on a section and you think “chase chase” and they just gap you a little more…. then it’s all over.

Well done fellas.

There are still spaces to join us in the Team Time Trial on Thursday at 6.30. I think we have 5 riders signed up so far, so 3 places left. (I can’t actually see for sure until the start list goes live nearer the time).

Joining instructions are just up above, in my previous post.

I think that mooman, piemonster and dknwhy have all been tempted at some point. Others welcome too…

@savoyad ok, entered. 6.30pm much better for me! Question: does my ZP name have to exactly match my Zwift name, or is the only important thing that the ZP name has (STW) at the end?

Edit: tried to join the Discord server also but it said link was invalid/expired

Jumped into a Crit City Slam with some of the club TTT riders. Internet issues got me in with 1 minute to spare.
All cats together for the short 8 lap of the Dolphin which I’ve not raced before.
Jumped out of the gate and promptly got spat out the back of the lead group pulling 350w.
Settled into the 2nd group which was slightly more sane.
Newbie Zwift racer reappeared in my group after dropping back after the climb.
6 laps of hanging on and got slipped off the back by a lapped rider I couldn’t raise power enough to get out of the sticky draft. Someone else got me back on.
Same again end of lap 7 and a massive effort got me onto the tail end around turn 3 just as the tail end was getting tailed off.
Kept the power up to make sure nobody came up from behind for a decent result. First C placed rider other than clubmate who got himself upgraded after :0) only problem with that is our TTT squad got upgraded too :0(
See you in Thursdays results in Frappe.
https://www.zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=661664

Nice one Tom… You enjoy the layout ?

heads-up on potential pen waiting times, could be up to 24 minutes!

Sorry, forgot to say that I’d entered the TTT for tomorrow. Can’t get discord working though.

This should be the link for the discord for the next couple of days:

Discord

Thanks

heads-up on potential pen waiting times, could be up to 24 minutes!

So not much earlier after all then!

I have an old laptop running Vista. Doubt that would cope with Zwift – or would it? If I update to another OS, has anyone experience of running Zwift on any of the free OS (Chromebook, Linus etc)?

Zwift needs fast single thread performance and a reasonable graphics card. However it does also work on lower power hardware. What laptop do you have? Does it have a better or just the stock one? There is an article on zwiftinsider from March about how to get the higher quality graphics modes for not a lot. I’ve been using my 3 year only work laptop but off the back of that article just taken delivery of components for a zwift PC. Spent just over £300 (reusing a case) and should be able to get the highest graphics settings with all the bells and whistles.