Any places left, normally ride for a team at 6:15 but cannot make it that early tongiht?

Thanks all good fun. Not sure NP of 270W counts as easy mind.

Don’t think ZP does DQs for races under 20 minutes.

Triple loops sounds good to me.

Yes following you. S copping on Zwift.

Depending on Saturday beer consumption I could be in for a couple of hours at 7:30. What’s the planned pace?

Lost internet in the tunnel at start, pedalled like crazy but well down by the time Internet came back and I could view other riders again. Got into a group with Rolo, Burgin, Drysdale and Webster on the hill. We lost Webster in the jungle but picked up scaredypants on the climb out. Decent workout with an NP of 272W

Going to be tough for me tonight. Will be over the moon if I manage to finish with DrP and J-R in sight, no hope in making up the 1:15 and 30 seconds respectively. Just hoping I am in a decent group going over the bridge after first short climb.

As long as the two power sources read similar I wouldn’t have thought it mattered too much. I flip between Assioma pedals and Kickr for power source and never notice a difference.

Ah just noticed you have wheel on trainer, in that case definite go with PM for consistency.

@zilog6128 on the Sunday recce oopnorth was flying on the downhill section on MTB. Road bikes had the advantage on wooden section.

What time are you riding Road to Ruins?

I am really enjoying the series. I don’t really worry about the handicaps, just try to do my best possible in each race.

Flat races are always going to be difficult to predict handicaps and you are always going to end up with bigger groups of mixed ability with the stronger riders doing more work on the front.

Thanks for all the work Robbo.

That first lap was a bit ott, managed to stay with lead pack, got a bit tough the last two times up the S bends. I had an aero for the downhill sprint and crossed the line first on my screen, Zwift has me as 5th, not that it matters as it all changes with the handicaps. Can’t have been much more than 8 minutes between fro and back this week.

Looking at past results think I will be about 1:10 next week, closest on my ZP is 8 laps for 56 minutes at an NP of 281W.

Gary. Yep I noticed when the 4 of us were grouped up you were showing as 4 seconds behind.

From my POV you finished in front of me on the sprint but the results don’t reflect that.

Tough race, hate that hill. Climbed with Southside Johnny, Mowlett and Garry Lager, we got into a relatively steady tempo, stayed together on downhill, leg snapper and all the way to the end. 278NP for me, 2 minute pb on big hill.

Roll on next week.

Enjoyed that, went with the tactic of try and hang onto lead group as long as possible, just about managed to hang on until the end.

Expected all out sprint at end didn’t really happen, think we were all a it surprised by position of finish line.

Hi Robbo

Can you add me please. Scopping on Zwift
77kg
285W

Cheers

Core doesn’t have foldable legs or handle which makes it a PITA to store/move if you don’t have a permanent setup.

The Crit race tonight is stage 1/3 of this months WKG 3-Way. Stage 2 is 1 lap of Innsbruckring tomorrow night, the final stage is next Monday and will be a hilly race.

If you want to contend the 3 stages append (B3-WAY) to Zwift and ZP profiles, change letter to reflect your cat and join the 3Way strava group

https://www.strava.com/clubs/WKG-3WAY

Overall positions are calculated on cumulative time with time bonuses for first 5 positions on each stage

It depends on your Garmin head unit, any that support power meters will get the basic data but only the newer models will collect and show the pedalling dynamics data. If you search DC rainmakers site you will find list of units offering full support.

Deffo more hounds, me and Dr P came in at 52 something, moon man and Phil way up the road plus two others in front of me, Garry Lager and one other.

Also signed up as Hound although 3.6W/Kg is about my 60 minute limit.

I was pleasantly surprised by production quality having seen some of the YouTube pro races. You would have thought the teams would have given the riders some Zwift lessons re: power ups, saw some strange usage in both races.

New version of the companion app due out today will give the option to create private meet-ups meaning that you only get to see he riders that are part of your meet-up, Sounds great for STW rides.

The G key will toggle the in ride graph on or off.

Anybody fallen foul of the no draft bug? One of my TTT teammates had it and had to drop out. Zwift patch imminent.

Another no show. Went out for IRL ride earlier, now on beer no 3 and just about to light the bbq.

Enjoy.

The results for TTT show on the WTRL website rather than Zwift power as there are several races over different time Zones.

Yeah that course is a bitch to get back on if you lose the group.

Rode the PRL full this morning, 11 times up box hill. Got a @weeksy invite about 60 miles in, in hindsight this might have been the better option. Ticked the route badge off but definitely won’t be repeating that one.

New version of app on my phone now (Android)

Another tip for The TTT, don’t use a TT bike.

For results to count you need team name in () eg (STW) appended to both your Zwift Power and Zwift profiles.

New companion app being released with meet-up enhancement, can now create meet-up in any of 6 worlds not just Watopia plus scheduled guest worlds. Should make it a bit easier to get an emptier route.

Max invites increased from 50 to 100

Thanks for organising another great ride Weeksy. Couple of observations.

The ‘bee’ Jersey was a bit popular tonight.

Be nice if chat could be limited to group only.

When it is that busy the fact Zwift only renders 100 closest riders means you cannot always see the beacon if off front or back.

Would not like to try and keep up with most of you in a sprint.

Looking forward to the next one.

Also bailed at last minute, Zwift race this morning then irl ride this afternoon followed by bbq and beer in the garden. Hope you all had a good ride.

Club kit is possible and coming with Club associations, our club are talking with Zwift about it. As above though it may not be until the end of the Summer, currently.

currently this is a manual process at Zwift’s end and they approve very few club kits due to resources. There aim is to automate this as part of the club functionality. This is covered in this weeks Zwiftcast podcast.

Anyone had an invite to and joined the Jarvis Club? Apart from a couple of club only events doesn’t seem to offer much. Guess once you can setup your own clubs it will become more use, STW only races etc.

Zwift power is struggling due to the number of ToW rides on the makeup days. They are now prioritising independent events for processing, any ToW races are taking up to 24 hours to have results published on ZP.

Don’t think we will be able to wear bumblebee kit. Zwift April fool this year is compulsory 80s retro bikes and kit.