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[Hazie]

Colle delle Finestre this afternoon u are up to it .

Would love to, but too much to do today. And going to watch Carlisle play or try to play. Should be a good day out tho.

 

[Hazie]

BenH.
You are officially my nemesis.
You keep challenging and beating me grrrrrr.
When I'm back from my holidays, you're my target, my goal. ha ha.

 

[theboxers]

Your fitness level in Cycling isAmateur 5

• Your last FTP value update was on 09/10/2015 21:37. You developed an average power of 261.34 W

To get to the next level, you need to do the following:

• Take a FTP test developing an average power over 276.32 W
• Complete an Indoor Cycling session of over 30 minutes developing an average power over 276.32 W

I'm absolutely over the moon with how I'm doing, but.............
Is this really possible. I gave that last ride everything. Don't think It's possible to push harder to reach the next level.

I have to develop 263W to go up from Amateur1 to 2. Even a lower weight doesn't help much when you can only currently put out about 200W. My output is going up, about as fast as my weight is going down, slowly, but it is painful.

 

[borchgrevink]

I humbly tried to join the group on Bkool today...

 

[RickB]

I humbly tried to join the group on Bkool today...

Just accepted your request there now. Enjoy the mountains!

 

[bobinski]

Another frustrating bkool day for me but not bkools fault! I managed to work out hdmi out on my laptop had failed( laptop screen is broke so I output to a monitor) and so could use vga. Hurrah. Unfortunately, I am clearly not so good at feckling my gears. 2 rides to get warmed up today and dropped chain 4 times. On 2 I managed to peddle backward to reseat the chain but the others required getting off. I figured I could stay in 34'on the front and just move up and down the rear cassette. Started Slovenska spinning up knowing I had upwards of an hour ahead of me and shortly after I began to push through the first steep bit I dropped down to the 25 on the back only to hear a grinding noise and the rear wheel stop suddenly, chain jammed between cassette and hub on my rs24,s. Ouch! I cannot tease it free and the rear mech doesn't look too good pulled around out of shape so it's off to the bike shop tomorrow. Perhaps it is time after all to put the good bike on the turbo? Seems counter intuitive. But needs must when the bkool devil drives

 

[pwe169]

Just done my next climb - Thank god the 50% bit wasn't as I thought!! - Im all set to try the next one tomorrow

It's odd how you start to enjoy them

 

[Whorty]

BenH.
You are officially my nemesis.
You keep challenging and beating me grrrrrr.
When I'm back from my holidays, you're my target, my goal. ha ha.

You sound like me ... I feel like a victim at the moment. I get challenged at least 3 times a day! I think people see the slowest and think, I'll challenge that dude, then beat me by 30 mins! JLaw challenging me makes sense .... he's a smidge faster than me so I probably work as a good pacemaker for him. But when someone is knocking 50% off my time it doesn't make much sense.

Maybe someone can fix it so that if someone challenges me they really get Ryan's ghost .... that will freak the egotists out LOL

 

[Ryan lawman]

Close, but what I actually did was to get as high a speed as possible at the bottom (about 50mph flat out in top) and hit the 10% upslope and still keep pedalling in top for as long as possible. It would be impossible in real life so I think the software is being tricked into lowering the resistance for a part of the slope. Anyone can do it though and it doesn't always work, but when it does you can make big gains. You can use up a lot of energy in the process though so best done near the end of a race where you can try and maintain the advantage. In this case Guy easily caught up and passed me so probably a pointless exercise as it reduced the steady power I could make towards the end of the race.

I tried that then it got to steep and I could not change back down to the 39 front drive and nealy ended up comeing to a stand still ...

 

[BILL S]

It's odd how you start to enjoy them

You could be banned for uttering such words. The Mountain goat leagues are all about pain and suffering and you are the first person to ever say you enjoyed one.

 

[BILL S]

I tried that then it got to steep and I could not change back down to the 39 front drive and nealy ended up comeing to a stand still ...

Ah yes, this is the biggest risk. If you're really lucky you can get all he way to the top of the hill if it's not too high.

 

[BILL S]

You sound like me ... I feel like a victim at the moment. I get challenged at least 3 times a day! I think people see the slowest and think, I'll challenge that dude, then beat me by 30 mins! JLaw challenging me makes sense .... he's a smidge faster than me so I probably work as a good pacemaker for him. But when someone is knocking 50% off my time it doesn't make much sense.

Maybe someone can fix it so that if someone challenges me they really get Ryan's ghost .... that will freak the egotists out LOL

I think challenges can be cumulative in that if someone challenges someone who challenged you then your ghost will be in their ride and even though they didn't challenge you directly you can still get the message that you were challenged and beaten. And believe me, it doesn't seem to get any easier as you move up the rankings if all the "you were challenged and beaten" messages I get are anything to go by.

 

[Benh]

BenH.
You are officially my nemesis.
You keep challenging and beating me grrrrrr.
When I'm back from my holidays, you're my target, my goal. ha ha.

Hi Hazie,
I am challenging the ride of the person who is one place above me in the league... and that happens to be you so I think you must be doing better than me!
On my last ride there was 24 seconds difference over an hour and 6 minutes so there's not a lot in it.

 

[Hazie]

Hi Hazie,
I am challenging the ride of the person who is one place above me in the league... and that happens to be you so I think you must be doing better than me!
On my last ride there was 24 seconds difference over an hour and 6 minutes so there's not a lot in it.

I know Ben, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to sound like a brat.
So Please keep challenging me. Cause it'll only spur me on to do better.

 

[Hazie]

You sound like me ... I feel like a victim at the moment. I get challenged at least 3 times a day! I think people see the slowest and think, I'll challenge that dude, then beat me by 30 mins! JLaw challenging me makes sense .... he's a smidge faster than me so I probably work as a good pacemaker for him. But when someone is knocking 50% off my time it doesn't make much sense.

Maybe someone can fix it so that if someone challenges me they really get Ryan's ghost .... that will freak the egotists out LOL

To be honest, I think you, me and Jlaw and BenH are all about similar level so I expect the lot of us to be challenging each other from now on.
Just frustrating when I get challenged and then beat. I Must do better I guess.
The more hills we do, the better we will get.