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@AndyMacca Thanks for the info. Certainly the future events / past results bit of RGTDB reminded me a lot of ZwiftPower, so I wasn't sure whether it was a similar thing in that it was/wasn't an in-house thing or whether you needed to be signed up for it or not in order to do events. At the very least I can use it to find events multiple days in advance a lot quicker than I can than on the app!
I don't (and won't) use Facebook, so that's a no-go, but I have given the RGT Blog a quick scan through and have seen a couple of interesting things.
I am now on the Premium free trial and did eventually get a Magic Road event set up, although it was certainly not user friendly. The bit where you have to type in the code is hidden away in the app (or at least I think it is - maybe if you're used to it, it seems more logical) and it won't let you copy and paste so I had to keep switching back and forth between the app and my browser (where I'd opened the magicroads.org website), typing a few letters at a time. Even when I got the code entered I still wasn't sure it had worked, but ended up randomly clicking on things and eventually accidentally started an event for ten minutes time and I'm still not sure how.
Ironically, the actual Magic Road event was superb once I got it working. The route I'd picked (even though it was someone else's) was one I'd done in real life and it matched my memory of it superbly, plus the addition of a load of bots that were all just slightly above or a tiny bit below my power levels (have to assume that was deliberate) made it a lot more like an informal race - trying to hang on to the draft of the slightly better riders was a real challenge but not impossible.
Noted about the auto-braking - makes sense. The only time I found it annoying was coming down the first descent on Cap Formentor, where because I don't know the course, I had no idea which upcoming bends were tight and which weren't (having spent three years on Zwift I now know every corner off by heart) so I'd be pedalling when I didn't need to or coasting when I should have been putting the power down! That will only come with more experience.
I don't (and won't) use Facebook, so that's a no-go, but I have given the RGT Blog a quick scan through and have seen a couple of interesting things.
I am now on the Premium free trial and did eventually get a Magic Road event set up, although it was certainly not user friendly. The bit where you have to type in the code is hidden away in the app (or at least I think it is - maybe if you're used to it, it seems more logical) and it won't let you copy and paste so I had to keep switching back and forth between the app and my browser (where I'd opened the magicroads.org website), typing a few letters at a time. Even when I got the code entered I still wasn't sure it had worked, but ended up randomly clicking on things and eventually accidentally started an event for ten minutes time and I'm still not sure how.
Ironically, the actual Magic Road event was superb once I got it working. The route I'd picked (even though it was someone else's) was one I'd done in real life and it matched my memory of it superbly, plus the addition of a load of bots that were all just slightly above or a tiny bit below my power levels (have to assume that was deliberate) made it a lot more like an informal race - trying to hang on to the draft of the slightly better riders was a real challenge but not impossible.
Noted about the auto-braking - makes sense. The only time I found it annoying was coming down the first descent on Cap Formentor, where because I don't know the course, I had no idea which upcoming bends were tight and which weren't (having spent three years on Zwift I now know every corner off by heart) so I'd be pedalling when I didn't need to or coasting when I should have been putting the power down! That will only come with more experience.