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Looks like it. Who's next?
You did indeed and you were right - but in the past I have also taken significant time off him on the descent and flat run in to the finish on that course. I suppose it depends on circumstances though - I still think if the gap was within a minute and there was 1 or more other motivated riders working with me, we may have been able to reel him in. But today he was just too quick on the climb, and he also kept up really high power in those final kilometres and increased his gap on me (don't know about the gap to Tommy?)I think I did say, they'll be no catching Berty if he has a small lead.
What is Lee 10kg lighter than you and only ceded 4 secs.
Despite the fact I can do slightly higher watts, Lee's w/kg is way higher than I can do - I fear he may be too strong even on a flattish TT course but we'll see next week!
Here’s the times for those registered with the club on strava. It’s not all about the watts. I’m just big boned.
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usually riding on Zwift...
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- Staffordshire
277w, which is probably a fair reflection of the amount of work I need to do to get my fitness and form back🤔. I wasn’t really mentally in the zone to suffer tonight… I raced really passively because I was scared of going too far into the red and getting dropped. What’s more, I’d not listened to any Enya all day, and, even worse, I had an Atomic Kitten earworm in my head!
I did 257W for the climb. From memory my best Wattage has been 290W. Some very impressive numbers.
I was watching the video an poor old Michael and Paul pushing 350-400W and seeing Tommy and Lee literally ride away must be crushing
mjd1988
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I did 21:43 @ 309 watts average - only my 4th best time on the Neo but my highest average watts so I'm happy with that.
Your 330 watts is really impressive - I don't know what Lee's power was but I can remember every time I looked during the race he seemed to be well over 5w/kg!
I think Carl could with careful selection of courses be very handy in B cat. He's got an excellent climbing ability being quite light, so hills would suit him.@Whorty you are definitely strong enough to do more than make up the numbers in b
I remember I could place mid B on flat courses at my best but was back of the pack on anything hilly. I understand being at the pointy end of a Cat is rather nice getting little trophies. It takes a fair bit of graft to progress and do well in the next category.
Its all to do with enthusiasm
steverob
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Not sure how Joffey was six seconds faster than me on the climb - as far as I could tell we started at the same time and we certainly finished together as well. But it is interesting to see that apart from the top 4, the watts for everyone else were pretty close, meaning most of our performance differences basically come down to weight.
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Ooooh, that's interesting. I was very tempted to ask for Neokyo All-Nighter as our course for next week anyway, but now it's down as the first week for ZRL, that I think becomes a great opportunity to do a recce at the same time.
How about it @bridgy? 90% of the course is flat with a single climb of about 3-4 minutes length and if we set a custom length of about 30-35km (trying to keep it a similar length to all the other stages), it should come in at about 40-50 minutes for most of the field.
Yeah I'd be very happy with that
mjd1988
Guru
Yeah just to be clear Carl, not trying to call you out on it, you are still C on zwiftpower and heavens knows there are plenty of people near A power in c (and D!). Just if you were to try it I think you'd do better than you might think
Yes, definietly B numbers tonight on that climb. Yet I still can't win any C races@Whorty you are definitely strong enough to do more than make up the numbers in b
Can't be long now until I'm promoted by ZP ... any climbing race would do it so I avoid those .... looking at the next league though, I think I'll be buggered pretty quickly!
