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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.

 

[mjd1988]

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.

just didn't seem the right tactic, don't know relative strength of team as it's only the second race, course profile not right as no medium length climbs, very evenly matched pack due to the velo scoring system. If it was later in the series probably more chance of teams forcing something as there would be a better idea about which teams to beat.

As it turned out no one wanted to lose which led to a neutralised race, which was the right call. Glad to see Steves race was a bit more animated though as I really like the idea of TTRs in principle

 

[steverob]

As it turned out no one wanted to lose which led to a neutralised race, which was the right call. Glad to see Steves race was a bit more animated though as I really like the idea of TTRs in principle

The thing was that I thought our race was really tame until looking in to it post-race. I based this on the fact that we only lost one of our seven riders (penultimate climb), that I made it with the pack to the end and that there were no real attacks - only single riders went off the front and we had agreed not to chase unless it was multiple members of a single team.

But I guess it was more down to the front of the race just gradually upping the pace and forcing a battle of attrition that was responsible for thinning down the pack. The nearest I came to being dropped was the kicker after Brooklyn Bridge just before the final climb - got distanced by 1 sec with one other teammate but was able to get back on during the flat section.

 

[13 rider]

I had a different race I'm in one of the weaker teams in the league but I'm the strongest rider in the team . We strongly suspected we wouldn't hold the main pack which came true on the 1st drag up the bridge I was at the back helping the rider we suspected would be rider 4 and we slowly got dropped along with rider 5 and 6 . So over the top we formed a group of 4 while riders ahead sat up and came back . Up the next drag we became 4 and me and the other stronger riders did the work protecting the other 2 as much as we could. We stayed together to the end but at 8km to go we got caught by another 4 riders from 1 team and we had a battle up to the finish and are 4th riders got by their 4th rider to nick another place in the league . I think we beat 2 teams I believe . I certainly got a good workout in but wasn't maxed out .I was surprised how relaxed the start was . A team in our league got 1,2,3 last week and I thought they would put the pace on