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[bridgy]

I'll be streaming if all goes according to plan. I've only ridden that route once as a badge collecting exercise. Not on video.
@bridgy should like it though

Oh I'm not so sure about that - I'm planning on being rider no. 4 being dragged to the finish by my teammates!

 

[Whorty]

Anyone any know of anyone doing recon videos for the dirt series? Haven't found on, current strategy is having quick glance at Alex's race if time allows!

I normally do that, then when I see how much Alex suffered I regret my decision to race 🤣

 

[Norry1]

Gonna do Stage 4 of the Zwift Games at 5:10 tonight if anyone is playing.

Well that is 4 of these done. Lost the front group by trying to be too clever - then took quite a few up the Petit KOM to the finish.

Got +3 ZRS points which takes me to 452 and over the Range 2 C limit - so gonna be harder next week


View: https://youtu.be/B9d56lwBaqM

 

[alex_cycles]

Ouchies. Died in the last 200m

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/zXzTiPKalcQ?si=BcL1MzWxik4jS820&t=409

 

[mjd1988]

Ouchies. Died in the last 200m

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/zXzTiPKalcQ?si=BcL1MzWxik4jS820&t=409

That looked very hard, still a good result by the looks of things.

I normally do that, then when I see how much Alex suffered I regret my decision to race 🤣

Yep!

 

[alex_cycles]

That looked very hard, still a good result by the looks of things.

I was our rider 4, 4s behind WFCC 3rd rider (although I didn't know and I doubt I could have done anything about it) and 1s ahead of the 5th team's 4th rider.

Sadly I think being ill just took the edge off my stamina. Normally I would have hoped to be in the mix for 30s longer. I think we should have beaten WFCC. Mitten and Turtles are very strong teams, but WFCC is full of skinny runts

 

[mjd1988]

I was really looking forward to the TTR but it ended up being incredibly...dull.

Whole group stayed together till the last 400m really so no real tactics at all. That's not to say it wasn't tough but I was expecting a bit more action

 

[alex_cycles]

I was really looking forward to the TTR but it ended up being incredibly...dull.

Whole group stayed together till the last 400m really so no real tactics at all. That's not to say it wasn't tough but I was expecting a bit more action

A few other people have made that complaint. I don't understand why you didn't spice it up yourself on one of the climbs?
If you insist on sitting in you don't get to control the pace. It's not rocket science

Some races seem to have been like that and others not. I guess it depends who you're racing and how you race.

Also possible that in the single cat pens the range of ability is closer than the doubles we have in Atlantic.

 

[steverob]

I was really looking forward to the TTR but it ended up being incredibly...dull.

Whole group stayed together till the last 400m really so no real tactics at all. That's not to say it wasn't tough but I was expecting a bit more action

I initially thought the same but watching it back on one of my teammates streams that had a Sauce overlay so that you could see group sizes, I saw that we did actually drop quite a few people on each climb. Out of 46 starters we ended up with a pack of only 22 at the end.

I ended up hanging on to the group right until the death and was pipped at the line by one of my teammates for what I thought was 5th place within our squad. However it turned out that the guy we all thought was going to be our fourth rider had a mare on the final climb and we were both ahead of him without realising it and so we were actually fighting for the final counting place.

It also meant there was a bit of a gap between us two and the three front riders, which may have cost us a place in the final reckoning. The trouble was that everyone was so out of breath that no-one could alert each other on Discord and by the time you could, you were in the last few metres and it was too late to do anything about it.