Sorry about that guys. Really annoying cadence drop outs. Normal range is a comfortable 85-90 and every 30 seconds was dropping to half that, sometimes further, then the Wattbike would overcompensate and it would force me to put the power on as if I were climbing. Which would be fine if I was expecting it! Had this once before, an update seemed to sort it. Zwift suggest Bluetooth interference, but it was fine earlier this morning! Ah well, one of those days, as it looks like the boiler has decided to call it a day as well. Gremlins.
Well that ended well.
So unbelievably frustrating.
Rebooted the laptop and did a 10 min warm up and a 30min crit race with no issues.
I wonder if there’s any connection between the crashes and the fact I’m using discord and the companion app on the same phone. Seems highly unlikely but it’s the only difference between the set up tonight and how I races on Tuesday.
Anyway enough of my troubles, I hope the rest of you had a good race.
Well finishing with 4 is better than the 3 last time we did that course! I forgot u were on a Wattbike @paino. I can see how it must have been a nightmare to get consistent power. Hope u get the boiler sorted. Still, a good workout for 70 mins.
Cheers for that guys, I was always on my limit, but I suppose that is a good thing. Good pacing from you all to keep me in the pack.
Keeps my fitness going in the right direction. Hoping to get somewhere back to how I was during the first lockdown 2 years ago, always going to be hard, as I had all the time in the world back then!
In the end I did enjoy that, but never again on that course!
I wonder if there’s any connection between the crashes and the fact I’m using discord and the companion app on the same phone.
When I used to do this the companion app b became useless. I don’t know if anything together was too much for the phone but the companion constantly froze. Admittedly I have not tried with newer more powerful phone. I don’t remember it causing issues with the main game though. I now run discord on the zwift pc.
I’m a maybe at the moment – we were supposed to be going away for a long weekend, but the weather forecast is causing a possible rethink. I’m told there’s a ‘management meeting’ this evening after which I’m sure I’ll get told one way or the other!!
I’m back in the game now, panto season is over, but I’m going to bow out of these – the timing is just a bit too late for me. I might try to find a team in an earlier slot.
I generally work from home and am ready to ride from 6pm.
– you need a WTRL account. If you don’t have one, get one here https://www.wtrl.racing/registration/
– ride a road bike. dress up as a bumblebee
– the start is hacky workaround. When it says GO – DO NOT GO! Instead you must stay stationary (i.e. don’t pedal) in the start pen for the team’s allocated start delay. This week that means sitting there for 9.5 mins. You’ll see other teams going at 30 second intervals while you wait. Don’t go with them. You can do this with a stopwatch (the onscreen clock helpfully disappears on go as well..) but even better…
– …comms will be on discord. Click here https://discord.gg/u2tc7d6Q – it’ll be in the STW TTT Voice channel in there. It’s possible without, but much easier with. Someone (@phil56 or @robbo1234biking) will take charge on the road
– there’s no pressure to contribute much first time out. sit in the bunch (this helps others by adding to the draft) and get a feel for how it works.
– any questions, ask away!
I often find the numbers from the TTT make it look like a lower effort than it was. I guess it’s the up/down nature of the effort Vs a solo race where you tend to be at high output a lot longer but the pads and troughs are smaller and shorter.
My first ever TTT was on Douce France back in August 2020. There were 4 riders in the team and I was absolutely hanging on with an average of 265w and we finished in 36:36.
Last night we finished in 34:53 and I averaged 312w so a massive improvement over 18 months.
Well done everyone 🙂
Next week is the WTRL TTT World Championships. Some teams take it very seriously! The route is Greatest London Loop so fairly short but does take in the big hill.
