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[theboxers]

I will be doing a chaingang ride this afternoon, but not thursdays one. I will be doing the one from the previous week that I have not completed . Today is the last chance .

 

[rob01792]

I will be doing a chaingang ride this afternoon, but not thursdays one. I will be doing the one from the previous week that I have not completed . Today is the last chance .

try follow me and gw ghost cos if I remember correctly u was doing really well until the heat got the better of u

 

[Soarerv8]

Well my bike / cycle chat have been sadly neglected of late not because like Adam I have been busy but because of my natural predilection towards being a lazy git.

Plan to drag my lazy carcass out to the pain cave this afternoon and blow the dust off the bkool, wish me luck!

 

[theboxers]

try follow me and gw ghost cos if I remember correctly u was doing really well until the heat got the better of u

I tried that the other day and lost touch fairly quickly and eventually ran out of legs . Although not before I'd set a pb ftp .

I'll complete it today, but at a much lower level. I just need to complete the session. Nothing worse than an incomplete session .

 

[BILL S]

I tried that the other day and lost touch fairly quickly and eventually ran out of legs . Although not before I'd set a pb ftp .

I'll complete it today, but at a much lower level. I just need to complete the session. Nothing worse than an incomplete session .

And you'll jump a few places in the league I would think.

 

[BILL S]

No one playing today so I did a summer cup ride instead. Noticed that I was in 30th place in stage 2 but @bobinski was in 11th place so the challenge was on. Had about 2 minutes on Bob when I hit the final biggish hill and thought that would be plenty but how wrong I was. Bob passed me half way up (flew past to be more accurate) and by the top had two minutes advantage over me. Not giving up, I managed to pull back a minute ad a half by the end but still lost by 25 or 30 seconds. Well done Bob. I think your lighter weight makes you very hard to beat up the hills these days.

 

[LBHIFI]

No one playing today so I did a summer cup ride instead. Noticed that I was in 30th place in stage 2 but @bobinski was in 11th place so the challenge was on. Had about 2 minutes on Bob when I hit the final biggish hill and thought that would be plenty but how wrong I was. Bob passed me half way up (flew past to be more accurate) and by the top had two minutes advantage over me. Not giving up, I managed to pull back a minute ad a half by the end but still lost by 25 or 30 seconds. Well done Bob. I think your lighter weight makes you very hard to beat up the hills these days.

Well, I could say the same about you. I retried the last Chain Gang stage yesterday, and just couldn't keep up with you on the last climb. I usually manage to reel you in on the climbs, but not this time. Well done .

 

[theboxers]

Yeeha. Less than an hour . That was not easy to stay on message low 70's- high 60's cadence with a sub ftp power but a >21.4mph average speed .

Well that's the July league complete. Now to get on and catch up on the summer cup .

 

[AAAC 76C]

I can't believe Pep Tatche saved that stage 4 ride in such an open league, that is darn right embarrassing from someone who clearly has the ability to do well on his own merit.
At one point he is doing 76.3 kph flat for 3.5km, 66 kph flat for 2km at another point, 53.7 kph flat for 3 km up hill and various other flat/speed and power anomalies including a 1.1 km effort uphill at 71.2 kph flat but he still didn't beat A.I.D.
However Jacob took my stage 4 time by a minute, what a big Danish power house. They weren't the words I wanted to use but none the less respect Jacob.
I can only say that the league needs more hills!
The red line is just below 500 watts and 50 kph. He barely drops below 50 for the whole ride!

 

[BILL S]

Well, I could say the same about you. I retried the last Chain Gang stage yesterday, and just couldn't keep up with you on the last climb. I usually manage to reel you in on the climbs, but not this time. Well done .

Good of you to say Lars, but to be fair, it was your fourth day in a row of hard riding. I was pretty surprised when I saw your result.

 

[BILL S]

I can't believe Pep Tatche saved that stage 4 ride in such an open league, that is darn right embarrassing from someone who clearly has the ability to do well on his own merit.
At one point he is doing 76.3 kph flat for 3.5km, 66 kph flat for 2km at another point, 53.7 kph flat for 3 km up hill and various other flat/speed and power anomalies including a 1.1 km effort uphill at 71.2 kph flat but he still didn't beat A.I.D.
However Jacob took my stage 4 time by a minute, what a big Danish power house. They weren't the words I wanted to use but none the less respect Jacob.
I can only say that the league needs more hills!
The red line is just below 500 watts and 50 kph. He barely drops below 50 for the whole ride! View attachment 136985

His power graph looks rather suspect with its part normal looking peaks and troughs and the other half full of blocks of exact same power for minutes at a time. Heart rate seems rather low for all that effort too, if he really is so much quicker than almost everyone else. But like you say AAAC, what's the point in saving results like that when anyone with half a brain can see that the times are bogus. Last year he was typically beating me by a minute or two, and sometimes less than that but this year its usually more like 10 minutes. Results were much closer last year and all that tells me is that bkools F/W S/W inequalities are much worse than they were last year. One would think it would have improved rather than regressed the way it has.

 

[AAAC 76C]

His power graph looks rather suspect with its part normal looking peaks and troughs and the other half full of blocks of exact same power for minutes at a time. Heart rate seems rather low for all that effort too, if he really is so much quicker than almost everyone else. But like you say AAAC, what's the point in saving results like that when anyone with half a brain can see that the times are bogus. Last year he was typically beating me by a minute or two, and sometimes less than that but this year its usually more like 10 minutes. Results were much closer last year and all that tells me is that bkools F/W S/W inequalities are much worse than they were last year. One would think it would have improved rather than regressed the way it has.

Mainly down to the climbing, some F/W still allows the Pro Sling and the other does pretty much the opposite and once you have lost the momentum that it.

Those flat efforts you can see in Pep's stats is what happened to CXRAndy just before his Pro broke.
You can also get that effect if you switch your turbo off.
As I have a remote control for my turbo and fan I found this out one winter when I was trying to turn my fan off and my turbo went off instead.
Took me a while to notice but after about 2 minutes the session times out but you can switch back on and recover.
So if you ever see flats in my stats like that you know what I have been doing!

 

[CXRAndy]

AAAC.

I bet his stepper motor is jamming in the wrong position like mine did. The effort goes down but speed and power rise

 

[AAAC 76C]

AAAC.

I bet his stepper motor is jamming in the wrong position like mine did. The effort goes down but speed and power rise

It will be all of the off/on'ing he was doing in some of the other stages has worn the motor out.
To be honest your power is a mathematical product of your speed and slope (as all of the others are constant in the stage) so considering how the slope changes you would expect the power to change as well so I think it may not just be the stepper motor.

 

[theboxers]

I can't believe Pep Tatche saved that stage 4 ride in such an open league, that is darn right embarrassing from someone who clearly has the ability to do well on his own merit.
At one point he is doing 76.3 kph flat for 3.5km, 66 kph flat for 2km at another point, 53.7 kph flat for 3 km up hill and various other flat/speed and power anomalies including a 1.1 km effort uphill at 71.2 kph flat but he still didn't beat A.I.D.
However Jacob took my stage 4 time by a minute, what a big Danish power house. They weren't the words I wanted to use but none the less respect Jacob.
I can only say that the league needs more hills!
The red line is just below 500 watts and 50 kph. He barely drops below 50 for the whole ride! View attachment 136985

I can see how this got saved. For me, when I'm very close to the limit, I don't look at the screen. Head down arse up, trying to power through I do try most of the time, just not to the point of a MI . So when I get to the end, also because of the crashes I've had, I save asap. You don't get to see the performance profile until after saving. So unless you are aware that there is problem before saving, this can happen.

With that said. When you become aware of the problem