Team BKool CycleChat

[shimceltic]

I meant when you get back from football!

 

[Mark68]

Me Jim and Randy as the underdog team?
Anyone doing the 6pm featured ride?

sorry i cant ride tonight, but will hopefully ride on Thursday

 

[Mark68]

All sounds very interesting for November. Sorry in advance if i am on a team and let you down with a rubbish ride or most likely not being able to work out how to join in

 

[AndyMacca]

Anyone doing the 6pm featured ride?

Hopefully will get set-up in time.

 

[shimceltic]

Hopefully will get set-up in time.

I'm not bothering as feel crap.

 

[Mark68]

Long post, go put the kettle on!

Guys, the end of one month the beginning of another so a couple of things.
I think October was a good month for the league, we grew in numbers (26 active participants by the end) though following @BILL S advice I have removed the two members who didn’t contribute here and about whom we had doubts about the veracity of their results. The stats are that in October 8 of us did all 4 stages, 7 did 3 stages, 9 people 2 and 2 just the one stage(I factored in me misleading three people by starting the wrong route for stage 4!). This gives us a participation level of 70% which I think is pretty high and in no small way helped by the chat and banter here.
Looking forward to October there are two things to mention. As already noted the rides (5) for this month are slightly different in that they each have a specific characteristic, flat, rolling, downhill, climb. We will all do better on some than others but hopefully the effect will be evened out of the 5 stages
The other new things is the introduction of teams!!! I had contacted bkool about this feature as I knew nothing about it, but it was telling me I couldn’t use the feature while a league was in progress.Of course bkool gave me a reply that didn’t answer the question. However, today as I had inadvertently created a league free day when I clicked on the tab by chance I was able to create teams!
I have created 5 teams of 3 from the 15 of us who regularly contribute here, trying to get equality in terms of overall level in each team, so no AAAC you can’t be in a team with Brus and Bill! This might be crap, but it might be fun, it might also be motivating…you're not just letting yourself down now if you don’t do a session but your wonderful team mates! It might also open up the possibility of a team time trail stage! It didn’t take me that long so if it works great and if not no biggy! As new actively contributing people join, or old friends return I’ll amend the teams, transfers can be arrange and I’m open to bribes! One consequence is that there will in future always be one day (the first Monday) between leagues to allow for league maintenance. I’m still chasing bkool about the various things you’ve raised including me being able top contact league participants directly to try to get them involved here, there’s a data protection problem but I’m sure we can find a work around. I’ll keep you informed of any developments.
Hope you enjoy November’s league as much as I think we all enjoyed October, stage 1 should be available tomorrow.

You've certainly got some great ideas. As you say it will probably inspire people to keep riding the sessions.
A big thank you for your hard work

 

[AndyMacca]

I'm not bothering as feel crap.

Hope you feel better soon.
I think I joined the wrong session anyway, I was rushing at 18:00 and joined one with the right name but the field was already spread out so I don't think it was the scheduled one, I guess I missed the cut. I bailed out and did a hour of a different ride.
TBH I feel a bit off too, my watch continues to inspire me with 'Unproductive' and has now estimated my Vo2 max at 43, it was 50 a month ago.

I'm really not sure what's going on, perhaps a summer of fairy dust!

 

[shimceltic]

Hope you feel better soon.
I think I joined the wrong session anyway, I was rushing at 18:00 and joined one with the right name but the field was already spread out so I don't think it was the scheduled one, I guess I missed the cut. I bailed out and did a hour of a different ride.
TBH I feel a bit off too, my watch continues to inspire me with 'Unproductive' and has now estimated my Vo2 max at 43, it was 50 a month ago. View attachment 490979
I'm really not sure what's going on, perhaps a summer of fairy dust!

If you joined at 6 you should keep refreshing the live rides till you see one with features written on it. There would have been a 10 min warm up so you weren't late. I've got no idea what v02 max is!

 

[AndyMacca]

If you joined at 6 you should keep refreshing the live rides till you see one with features written on it. There would have been a 10 min warm up so you weren't late. I've got no idea what v02 max is!

For some reason I thought those ones started dead on the hour, I'll get the hang of Bkool one day...
Vo2Max is just some fancy measure of fitness, watches and apps are able to guesstimate it based on the power readings from turbos coupled with heart rate data. It's just annoying to see it going south so quickly.

 

[shimceltic]

For some reason I thought those ones started dead on the hour, I'll get the hang of Bkool one day...
Vo2Max is just some fancy measure of fitness, watches and apps are able to guesstimate it based on the power readings from turbos coupled with heart rate data. It's just annoying to see it going south so quickly.

They used to start on the dot, these ones have all started 6pm warm up like our rides.

 

[Bored Man]

Long post, go put the kettle on!

Guys, the end of one month the beginning of another so a couple of things.
I think October was a good month for the league, we grew in numbers (26 active participants by the end) though following @BILL S advice I have removed the two members who didn’t contribute here and about whom we had doubts about the veracity of their results. The stats are that in October 8 of us did all 4 stages, 7 did 3 stages, 9 people 2 and 2 just the one stage(I factored in me misleading three people by starting the wrong route for stage 4!). This gives us a participation level of 70% which I think is pretty high and in no small way helped by the chat and banter here.
Looking forward to October there are two things to mention. As already noted the rides (5) for this month are slightly different in that they each have a specific characteristic, flat, rolling, downhill, climb. We will all do better on some than others but hopefully the effect will be evened out of the 5 stages
The other new things is the introduction of teams!!! I had contacted bkool about this feature as I knew nothing about it, but it was telling me I couldn’t use the feature while a league was in progress.Of course bkool gave me a reply that didn’t answer the question. However, today as I had inadvertently created a league free day when I clicked on the tab by chance I was able to create teams!
I have created 5 teams of 3 from the 15 of us who regularly contribute here, trying to get equality in terms of overall level in each team, so no AAAC you can’t be in a team with Brus and Bill! This might be crap, but it might be fun, it might also be motivating…you're not just letting yourself down now if you don’t do a session but your wonderful team mates! It might also open up the possibility of a team time trail stage! It didn’t take me that long so if it works great and if not no biggy! As new actively contributing people join, or old friends return I’ll amend the teams, transfers can be arrange and I’m open to bribes! One consequence is that there will in future always be one day (the first Monday) between leagues to allow for league maintenance. I’m still chasing bkool about the various things you’ve raised including me being able top contact league participants directly to try to get them involved here, there’s a data protection problem but I’m sure we can find a work around. I’ll keep you informed of any developments.
Hope you enjoy November’s league as much as I think we all enjoyed October, stage 1 should be available tomorrow.

Evening Keithy- how does this team thing work, who are the teams, which stages are they ridden on?

Aperlojies if I’m being Yorkshire int ed...

 

[keithaitch]

Evening Keithy- how does this team thing work, who are the teams, which stages are they ridden on?

Aperlojies if I’m being Yorkshire int ed...

I'll start a conversation with you, we don't want the rabble eavesdropping on admin business that is above their station.

 

[AAAC 76C]

Long post, go put the kettle on!

Guys, the end of one month the beginning of another so a couple of things.
I think October was a good month for the league, we grew in numbers (26 active participants by the end) though following @BILL S advice I have removed the two members who didn’t contribute here and about whom we had doubts about the veracity of their results. The stats are that in October 8 of us did all 4 stages, 7 did 3 stages, 9 people 2 and 2 just the one stage(I factored in me misleading three people by starting the wrong route for stage 4!). This gives us a participation level of 70% which I think is pretty high and in no small way helped by the chat and banter here.
Looking forward to October there are two things to mention. As already noted the rides (5) for this month are slightly different in that they each have a specific characteristic, flat, rolling, downhill, climb. We will all do better on some than others but hopefully the effect will be evened out of the 5 stages
The other new things is the introduction of teams!!! I had contacted bkool about this feature as I knew nothing about it, but it was telling me I couldn’t use the feature while a league was in progress.Of course bkool gave me a reply that didn’t answer the question. However, today as I had inadvertently created a league free day when I clicked on the tab by chance I was able to create teams!
I have created 5 teams of 3 from the 15 of us who regularly contribute here, trying to get equality in terms of overall level in each team, so no AAAC you can’t be in a team with Brus and Bill! This might be crap, but it might be fun, it might also be motivating…you're not just letting yourself down now if you don’t do a session but your wonderful team mates! It might also open up the possibility of a team time trail stage! It didn’t take me that long so if it works great and if not no biggy! As new actively contributing people join, or old friends return I’ll amend the teams, transfers can be arrange and I’m open to bribes! One consequence is that there will in future always be one day (the first Monday) between leagues to allow for league maintenance. I’m still chasing bkool about the various things you’ve raised including me being able top contact league participants directly to try to get them involved here, there’s a data protection problem but I’m sure we can find a work around. I’ll keep you informed of any developments.
Hope you enjoy November’s league as much as I think we all enjoyed October, stage 1 should be available tomorrow.

I continue to work earlies and lates on Thursday so I can only compete in the live events on Saturday.

 

[shimceltic]

I continue to work earlies and lates on Thursday so I can only compete in the live events on Saturday.

You can do your team rides at anytime to contribute I think

 

[keithaitch]

You can do your team rides at anytime to contribute I think

Yes, my guess, and it's nothing more than that, is that the team score will simply be the aggregate of the team members results both on individual stages and overall so as with the league it won't matter when you do the stage.