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usually riding on Zwift or up steep hills...
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- Staffordshire
Inevitable, really, they’ve got to keep making incentives for people to buy and then upgrade these bikes…
Randyberlin
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- Sitka, Alaska
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
Garmin just bought TrainingPeaks
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsro...-training-platforms-for-athletes-and-coaches/
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsro...-training-platforms-for-athletes-and-coaches/
Will be interesting to see what they do with it.
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
Interesting commentary here https://the5krunner.com/2026/07/22/garmin-acquires-trainingpeaks-what-changes/
Big picture suggestion is total dominance in the activity data sphere, which makes sense. But the whole "using the training data for improving AI systems" is also a compelling argument.
What happens to TPV remains to be seen, but George Gilbert seems to think things are going to go forward quickly.
Anyone else having drop outs on the Paris races? Twice now (out of 2) I've lost connection to the bike/HRM at exactly the same point on the course. The down section after the Arc ... twice I've been in a group doing 45+ kph, then suddenly no connection, avatar stops, and I have to reconnect everything. By then I'm 25 seconds down and growing.
Both ZRS races so it's tanked my score, so I shouldn't complain lol ...
I seem to recall having the same issue a couple of years ago on Paris, always the exact same place on the course, but only in races. I ride the route as a free ride and it never drops out.
Means I can't race Paris which is a shame as it's a great course (apart from the hill, I'm not keen on that haha)
Both ZRS races so it's tanked my score, so I shouldn't complain lol ...
I seem to recall having the same issue a couple of years ago on Paris, always the exact same place on the course, but only in races. I ride the route as a free ride and it never drops out.
Means I can't race Paris which is a shame as it's a great course (apart from the hill, I'm not keen on that haha)
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Joined a C race today as the D pen (as per ZRS) only had 2 riders and I didn't see the point of riding with just 2 others. It was a Tick Tock 2 lap race so I figured I might be able to hold on, at least to the climb out the desert, so C may not totally kill me!
Anyway, turns out it was an all cats start together race, so in hindsight I could have stayed in D and still had others around me.
I was dropped early, found 2 wheels to sit on and lapped with one of them (he was a C, the other rider, a B, dropped off us, I guess trying to tank his ZRS score).
2nd lap I was dropped at the banner and solo'd the whole lap with a group of 5 or 6 about a minute behind who I held off.
But here's the silly part. In that group behind me was the 'winner' of the D pen (plus some C's and the B we'd dropped). This D guy came in a minute behind me, yet his ZRS went up by 10 points because he won his race (against one other rider) whilst my ZRS remained the same as I came in 15th in C cat.
After all this time with ZRS it's still a total sh*t-show. Still far too many riders in the wrong cat, strange ZRS points changes. Too much gaming the system, much worse than the old cat set up.
Joined a C race today as the D pen (as per ZRS) only had 2 riders and I didn't see the point of riding with just 2 others. It was a Tick Tock 2 lap race so I figured I might be able to hold on, at least to the climb out the desert, so C may not totally kill me!
Anyway, turns out it was an all cats start together race, so in hindsight I could have stayed in D and still had others around me.
I was dropped early, found 2 wheels to sit on and lapped with one of them (he was a C, the other rider, a B, dropped off us, I guess trying to tank his ZRS score).
2nd lap I was dropped at the banner and solo'd the whole lap with a group of 5 or 6 about a minute behind who I held off.
But here's the silly part. In that group behind me was the 'winner' of the D pen (plus some C's and the B we'd dropped). This D guy came in a minute behind me, yet his ZRS went up by 10 points because he won his race (against one other rider) whilst my ZRS remained the same as I came in 15th in C cat.
After all this time with ZRS it's still a total sh*t-show. Still far too many riders in the wrong cat, strange ZRS points changes. Too much gaming the system, much worse than the old cat set up.
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
I rode outside in the club B ride although there were 5 out of 8 A riders with us.
I tried to kick their arses in the final town sign sprint and just lost it by a whisker at the end.
I did, however hit 1 kilowatt for the first time ever - just for 1 second, mind, but I'll take it...
I tried to kick their arses in the final town sign sprint and just lost it by a whisker at the end.
I did, however hit 1 kilowatt for the first time ever - just for 1 second, mind, but I'll take it...
Well done 💪
I'm languishing on a 2026 peak Max power of 980W. Can't quite get the 1KW this year.
I did my first Tiny races for probably 2 years yesterday (just checked, last time was Dec 2024). In D cat I felt it was feasible to finish all 4 races. My objective wasn't to win any races, it was to survive all 4 races at the pointy end - and I did manage that.
In hindsight I could possibly have done better in race 1 and race 2 but if I had totally redlined then I wouldn't have recovered enough for the last 2 races.
I'm def not back to C levels yet, far from it (and at 84kg too heavy for the power I can sustain) but I'm getting some fitness back. Just need to stay consistent, which is something I've struggled with this past 2 or 3 years
In hindsight I could possibly have done better in race 1 and race 2 but if I had totally redlined then I wouldn't have recovered enough for the last 2 races.
I'm def not back to C levels yet, far from it (and at 84kg too heavy for the power I can sustain) but I'm getting some fitness back. Just need to stay consistent, which is something I've struggled with this past 2 or 3 years
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
I did my first Tiny races for probably 2 years yesterday (just checked, last time was Dec 2024). In D cat I felt it was feasible to finish all 4 races. My objective wasn't to win any races, it was to survive all 4 races at the pointy end - and I did manage that.
In hindsight I could possibly have done better in race 1 and race 2 but if I had totally redlined then I wouldn't have recovered enough for the last 2 races.
I'm def not back to C levels yet, far from it (and at 84kg too heavy for the power I can sustain) but I'm getting some fitness back. Just need to stay consistent, which is something I've struggled with this past 2 or 3 years
Well done. I haven't been able to do a full set of Tinies like we used to do together in C for a good couple of years now. I think perhaps there are too many people racing down because of ZRS categorisation, so the races are unrealistically hard at the sharp end? Not sure.
Outdoors is where it's at for me in this weather though. Really enjoying that.
Yes, definitely not a 'D' race yesterday. 35+ in the main group and we still had a flier or two jumping off the front at over 3.5 w/kg for multi-minutes holding off a 35 strong group of chasers. TBF, I've given up taking the open races seriously, especially if they are ZRS based, too many sandbaggers and a total mess. It's a good way though to get a bit of fitness in and see if I can get race ready for the new race season in Sept (is it ZRL or DRS, I can never remember!)
Been outside a few times but I don't like riding in the wind, too wobbly when cars are passing close by, so sticking to Zwift until this weather decides to calm down a bit.
