Zwift Chat

[13 rider]

Do you know your velo cat? The DIRT guys I race with now are always happy to have new recruits. We have a few teams at the 7:30 Tuesday slot.

Gold score around 1100 . Like I say I committed to this round of WTRL ZRL and don't want to leave the team a man short . So I will keep this in mind for the future 👍

 

[mjd1988]

I prefer DRS but my team raced a bit late this round. Do enjoy the general coverage of ZrL through zwiftinsider and the likes of Nathan krakes recon videos but DRS has always been better run and more responsive to feedback and change

 

[mjd1988]

Hmm had hrm issues so got new hrm but it also isn't connecting. Reinstalling the app to see if that works. Turns out that takes forever...

 

[13 rider]

So WTRL have gone to the trouble of calculating the points for the race they cancelled so in my team case we can see how much we could have won by 🤣. Then I check the points and there wrong 🤣🤣. I scored more FAL points then a teammate who passed 5 banners in front of me and was only a couple of places behind me on the others and I discovered on the last sprint before the finish 4 random riders gained extra "bonus" points on this sprint and I was one of them 🤣

 

[alex_cycles]

OK next week's DRS race has been made into separate pens as it should be 🙌

 

[Whorty]

OK next week's DRS race has been made into separate pens as it should be 🙌

Bloody glad of that - I didn't fancy chasing gold riders up those two early KoMs

 

[Norry1]

Yesterday was the final event in the Midlands Hill Climb League. It was Gorcott hill (again) and hosted by Solihull CC. I beat my PB by 5 seconds and came 6th overall on the day, second in the age-adjusted MHCL riders - this meant I finished the year in second place. The winner was Steven Prince who is ranked #1 in the 50-54 National category.

I've enjoyed this League and raced 8 of the 10 fixtures (top 4 results count). I'd recommend it for 2027 to anyone in the area.

 

[alex_cycles]

Yesterday was the final event in the Midlands Hill Climb League. It was Gorcott hill (again) and hosted by Solihull CC. I beat my PB by 5 seconds and came 6th overall on the day, second in the age-adjusted MHCL riders - this meant I finished the year in second place. The winner was Steven Prince who is ranked #1 in the 50-54 National category.

I've enjoyed this League and raced 8 of the 10 fixtures (top 4 results count). I'd recommend it for 2027 to anyone in the area.

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Excellent! Well done.

 

[Legs]

Yesterday was the final event in the Midlands Hill Climb League. It was Gorcott hill (again) and hosted by Solihull CC. I beat my PB by 5 seconds and came 6th overall on the day, second in the age-adjusted MHCL riders - this meant I finished the year in second place. The winner was Steven Prince who is ranked #1 in the 50-54 National category.

I've enjoyed this League and raced 8 of the 10 fixtures (top 4 results count). I'd recommend it for 2027 to anyone in the area.

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Awesome, well done, Martin. I'm a touch too far north for this series and too far south for Macclesfield Wheelers' Hillclimb Project!

I'm doing Monsal Head this weekend, and so is my younger son, Daniel (9). Should be great

 

[mjd1988]

How'd everyone get on?

More standard ZRL race, innsbruckring scratch race. Pretty sedate pace (D numbers) for much of it altho a couple of breakaways. I relaxed then got into the decisive move up the legsnapper the last time, legs were v fresh and should have gotten 2nd or better but fitness and weight are against me at the minute. Good to be racing again though

 

[13 rider]

I had a weird race ,I'm still having weird zwift problems ,tonight my cadence kept dropping to around 33rpm and my power would stick .Within the 1st km I was dropping of the back and despite a full sprint my power stuck at 1.9w/kg then suddenly the power jumped and I'm back on . Hung on up just on the 1st climb ,dropped on the 2nd into a small group and we got back on then on the 3rd legsnapper my power stuck at 3.8w/kg for the bottom half then suddenly back to 5.7 but to late I'm of the back and all alone over the top . Held a chasing pair off for 33rd . Time up the snapper on the last time was 13 seconds slower this time would have kept me in group 2 and a chance of 27th if I could of out sprinted the group which is unlikely but would have been nice . Also swapped teams this week so was in a much stronger division

 

[steverob]

In Round 1 of the DIRT Racing Series, the Powerpuffs (mine and @Whorty's team) came first in the Silver division, although as there's only four teams in our league, that's maybe not quite as impressive as it at first sounds. Course was Richmond's Cobbled Crown, which is the hilly bit backwards, flat bit forwards, then the hilly bit forwards with a custom finish at the top of the 23rd Street climb.

I crossed the line in 4th, coming 5th on points, having picked up some points up at every banner; Carl crossed the line one place behind me, but got 3rd on points. And I got a new 90-day 20 minute watts PR, which has promoted me back to C (was only in D for about 3 weeks).


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