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[Whorty]

bit misleading as your going to B cat next week

Interestingly, my 95% of 20 mins stage 3 w/kg was 3.197 ...... couldn't get it closer to 3.2 if I'd tried This keeps me just about in C That was based on an ave of 249 watts over 20 mins. Had I average 250 watts I'd have slipped over to cat B ..... I'd call that perfect riding If that climb didn't have the castle 'flat' section where I 'rested' I think I'd have exceeded C.

Wish I could hold 250 watts for 20 mins on the flat and not just the climbs

 

[LBHIFI]

Where did you go Andy and Dean?
Im ridning this as zone2 with intervals

 

[Norry1]

Interestingly, my 95% of 20 mins stage 3 w/kg was 3.197 ...... couldn't get it closer to 3.2 if I'd tried This keeps me just about in C That was based on an ave of 249 watts over 20 mins. Had I average 250 watts I'd have slipped over to cat B ..... I'd call that perfect riding If that climb didn't have the castle 'flat' section where I 'rested' I think I'd have exceeded C.

Wish I could hold 250 watts for 20 mins on the flat and not just the climbs

I think ZP averages your best 3 rides to get your category

 

[CXRAndy]

Gasping+ enjoyed that will post once recovered

 

[Brusgaard]

Where did you go Andy and Dean?
Im ridning this as zone2 with intervals

Well, you sprinted past me at 6.5wkg up the KOM. Hope that's not your Zone 2? 3.2wkg avg. is not zone 2 either, right?

 

[LBHIFI]

Well, you sprinted past me at 6.5wkg up the KOM. Hope that's not your Zone 2? 3.2wkg avg. is not zone 2 either, right?

Yes zone 2. You didn’t see my intervals then ?

 

[Breedon]

1:20:29

 

[Brusgaard]

1:20:29

Nice group you were in. Me and that German Andreas had to work hard to keep you guys behind us for the last 3-4km. But 10-20 meters before the finish, you lot caught us (well at least 4 of them did ). Bugger! Then again, 2 against 17 is not fair.

 

[CXRAndy]

Where did you go Andy and Dean?
Im ridning this as zone2 with intervals

Honestly!?

I saw you briefly on the climb, then you rode away from me. Dean passed me about half up KOM. I held on to his wheel until we entered the tunnel, where he dropped me.

I caught him again in the Jungle and we lets say 'Rode together' Actually I was hanging in there like grim death. I stayed with him right to the point where the road tips down from the jungle. I took a swig of water and the group put the hammer down, twang went the elastic, 40 seconds lost to his pack

I wasn't going to let that happen again, so a group formed with me and we rode into the finish. There must of been 12 of us. I had a drafting boost to use. Everyone went with 250 to go. I hit boost, dropped onto small cog and went for it. Nothing happened for what seemed an age, then all of a sudden my avatar started cutting through my pack. I took my group sprint with a modest 800W sprint.

Lots of positives within the event, I felt ok even though near max threshold, I recovered reasonably well during the descents and I could dig in for periods. I enjoyed my little battle with Dean, who must of thought WTF. He shouldn't of said he would drop me like a stone

1.21.02 for me

 

[LBHIFI]

Well, you sprinted past me at 6.5wkg up the KOM. Hope that's not your Zone 2? 3.2wkg avg. is not zone 2 either, right?

No I was doing zone 2 with intervals all the way up the KOM. At the end of the jungle I latched on to a group going a bit harder than my Zone2, I was actually surpised how fast they went, considering we were in position 300+

 

[LBHIFI]

Honestly!?


1.21.02 for me

Well I did intend to go full gas all the way, but realized quite early that it was not to be, so changed to plan B.
I think I won about 100 places doing the KOM intervals. Lost them all again doing strictly zone 2 up the jungle hill.
It was 20-30 seconds max each 1½ min. I would have thought the relatively short intervals wouldn't be enough to make up for the 1½ min at zone 2 , but I was proven wrong.

 

[LBHIFI]

Stage 3 1:18:05

 

[CXRAndy]

Well I did intend to go full gas all the way, but realized quite early that it was not to be, so changed to plan B.
I think I won about 100 places doing the KOM intervals. Lost them all again doing strictly zone 2 up the jungle hill.
It was 20-30 seconds max each 1½ min. I would have thought the relatively short intervals wouldn't be enough to make up for the 1½ min at zone 2 , but I was proven wrong.

It all depends where the intervals and recovery are. zone 2 going up hill will see you dropped most likely. HIT going downhill with a pack and It unlikely you would get away from them

It seems there are alot more riders who swiftly pass me on climbs these days. I lost 250 places on the KOM

 

[mjd1988]

1.24.23 - glad that's over!

Some amazing times posted today, @CXRAndy annoyingly you've destroyed my "my time was a good time for a big lad" argument before I've even made it!

Shelled 179 places up the Kom, made 50 back on the descent (even using supertuck) and then largely stayed where I was, in a decent group and a good workout. Hate hate hate the jungle, mentally it just makes me feel like I'm working harder than I am.

Onwards and upwards (or preferably onwards and downhill)

 

[CXRAndy]

1.24.23 - glad that's over!

Some amazing times posted today, @CXRAndy annoyingly you've destroyed my "my time was a good time for a big lad" argument before I've even made it!

Shelled 179 places up the Kom, made 50 back on the descent (even using supertuck) and then largely stayed where I was, in a decent group and a good workout. Hate hate hate the jungle, mentally it just makes me feel like I'm working harder than I am.

Onwards and upwards (or preferably onwards and downhill)

Since Zwift have introduced surface drag, the jungle is really hard work