Zwift Chat

[JuhaL]

Getting to be a weekly occurance I'm afraid as she gets more advanced. She pushes on but it's all a bit stressful

I don’t know but i can imagine it’s hard to get thoughts to somewhere else even when you try to do something about it.

 

[peterob]

Stage 3 Rerun: 16:08 🤫 20 seconds better than Tuesday. 😁 Now resting the legs to find 40 seconds on Out and Back later today.

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Well done Al - looks like that gives you another stage win

Just tried it again myself. I managed a whole 2 secs quicker this time (16:15) than Tuesday. Interestingly(ish) I averaged 1 watt less than Tuesday.

Good luck on stage 2 later. Don't know how you can mange that today. I'd planned an easy steady ride with a couple of intervals straight after my stage 3, but could only manage 10 mins before I gave up

 

[bobinski]

I abandoned a SF session earlier, because I miss read and thought it was 57 min NOT the 1h 57 min it actually was and I am also struggling a bit with my arse/saddle having recently transferred best bike to the turbo. Never had an issue with the saddle in all day rides. Just shows it can be different on the turbo.

 

[bobinski]

Getting to be a weekly occurance I'm afraid as she gets more advanced. She pushes on but it's all a bit stressful

Sorry to hear that Carl.

 

[bridgy]

Well done @IrishAl - it was good to ride with you. Well, when I say good I mean painful!! I thought you had dropped me for good on the climb but I somehow closed the gap, but you soon dropped me again on the descent. How did you do? My time was 1:01:03 so no improvement - you must have been close to 60 mins?

Thanks for the encouragement as well!

 

[bridgy]

Your ride hasn't appeared on Strava Al - the suspense is killing me!!

 

[IrishAl]

Your ride hasn't appeared on Strava Al - the suspense is killing me!!

Oops I forgot to save my ride when I fell off the turbo trainer ...just saved it there now...1:00:08! I’ll take that
302w av versus 298w (1:00:05) on the TT bike on Friday.

we were almost 30 seconds ahead of a sub one hour time at the bottom of the volcano KOM. You were so close to me one the volcano that I eased up a bit on the climb so we could work together on the return leg but it wasn’t to be.

Should make for a very interesting final round. You and Tommy have big 🎯 on your backs

 

[bridgy]

Oops I forgot to save my ride when I fell off the turbo trainer ...just saved it there now...1:00:08! I’ll take that
302w av versus 298w (1:00:05) on the TT bike on Friday.

we were almost 30 seconds ahead of a sub one hour time at the bottom of the volcano KOM. You were so close to me one the volcano that I eased up a bit on the climb so we could work together on the return leg but it wasn’t to be.

Should make for a very interesting final round. You and Tommy have big 🎯 on your backs

Well done mate, great effort. Bit of drafting on the flat before the climb plus a few more watts pretty much made up for the TT bike solo. Yep, going to be a tough ask keeping you from riding away with it in the finale. Now I just need to pick a course....

 

[<Tommy>]

Oops I forgot to save my ride when I fell off the turbo trainer ...just saved it there now...1:00:08! I’ll take that
302w av versus 298w (1:00:05) on the TT bike on Friday.

we were almost 30 seconds ahead of a sub one hour time at the bottom of the volcano KOM. You were so close to me one the volcano that I eased up a bit on the climb so we could work together on the return leg but it wasn’t to be.

Should make for a very interesting final round. You and Tommy have big 🎯 on your backs

Glad it’s worked out the way it did Al, And well done @bridgy. Feels like justice. Especially considering we got our times outside of an organised race, it just seems fair and square the way it’s worked out.

And boy what a finale! It’d be great if we could all race it on the same day and just have a one off attempt considering how close it is between the 4 (or 5?) fighting for the medals. I’m not sure if that’s going to be possible for me unfortunately. I’ll try my best to make tomorrow race. But I have a feeling I’ll be doing it solo at some point.

 

[bridgy]

Glad it’s worked out the way it did Al, And well done @bridgy. Feels like justice. Especially considering we got our times outside of an organised race, it just seems fair and square the way it’s worked out.

And boy what a finale! It’d be great if we could all race it on the same day and just have a one off attempt considering how close it is between the 4 (or 5?) fighting for the medals. I’m not sure if that’s going to be possible for me unfortunately. I’ll try my best to make tomorrow race. But I have a feeling I’ll be doing it solo at some point.

I agree - I would have felt bad if Al would have lost out on that time he did solo on the TT bike because although it was against the rules, it was an awesome effort - and we got more benefit from drafting than he did with the TT bike (but that is the point - we're trying to encourage racing together rather than doing every race as a solo TT).

Can we have an update league table when you get a minute please @peterob ?

Final stage will be in Watopia - so feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions (I'm wary of using Alpe Du Zwiftthough because the meetups have never worked properly there)

 

[IrishAl]

I agree - I would have felt bad if Al would have lost out on that time he did solo on the TT bike because although it was against the rules, it was an awesome effort - and we got more benefit from drafting than he did with the TT bike (but that is the point - we're trying to encourage racing together rather than doing every race as a solo TT).

Can we have an update league table when you get a minute please @peterob ?

Final stage will be in Watopia - so feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions (I'm wary of using Alpe Du Zwiftthough because the meetups have never worked properly there)

Thanks both.

I do feel a tinge of guilt for setting my best times on stages 2 and 3 outside of the meet-up events. I’m tempted to suggest that a 2nd effort outside of the meet up shouldn’t be permitted or in some way should be given a time penalty? I feel it takes away a bit from the spirit of the meet up. It’s Fair enough if one does both meet ups, or if one cannot make either meet-up and does a solo effort - but having repeated repeat attempts - I’m not so sure. I know it was like this in the bkool winter league days when almost all times were set solo. Anyone else feel strongly about it?

Finally it would be great if we could all make Tuesday evening for a big showdown. Tactics will certainly come into play. Bridgy if you get a course selected today I will put together a short brief for everyone in advance so we all know the segment start and finish points and the parcours.

 

[bridgy]

Thanks both.

I do feel a tinge of guilt for setting my best times on stages 2 and 3 outside of the meet-up events. I’m tempted to suggest that a 2nd effort outside of the meet up shouldn’t be permitted or in some way should be given a time penalty? I feel it takes away a bit from the spirit of the meet up. It’s Fair enough if one does both meet ups, or if one cannot make either meet-up and does a solo effort - but having repeated repeat attempts - I’m not so sure. I know it was like this in the bkool winter league days when almost all times were set solo. Anyone else feel strongly about it?

Finally it would be great if we could all make Tuesday evening for a big showdown. Tactics will certainly come into play. Bridgy if you get a course selected today I will put together a short brief for everyone in advance so we all know the segment start and finish points and the parcours.

I was thinking of doing The Muir & The Mountain route - https://www.strava.com/segments/21344251

There's only a few Watopia routes that are a suitable length/ride time and are not too long or too short, and this is one I don't think we've done yet.

The Zwift Insider write up says there's no start banner so the segment starts and finishes at the entrance to Titans Grove. It would be helpful if anyone has time tonight to set up a quick test meetup, just to check out the start and make sure the spawn point is definitley before this, and the start at the entance to Titans Grove is obvious enough? (Sorry I won't get a chance to do this tonight)

Doing a breakdown of the course etc would be great Al.

 

[peterob]

I agree - I would have felt bad if Al would have lost out on that time he did solo on the TT bike because although it was against the rules, it was an awesome effort - and we got more benefit from drafting than he did with the TT bike (but that is the point - we're trying to encourage racing together rather than doing every race as a solo TT).

Can we have an update league table when you get a minute please @peterob ?

Final stage will be in Watopia - so feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions (I'm wary of using Alpe Du Zwiftthough because the meetups have never worked properly there)

@bridgy - I did the 'Sand and Sequoias' route on a training ride last week and thought that'd make a great course for our races. There's 3 climbs (but not too long) that would encourage some aggressive riding and some short sharp 'bumps' that take you by surprise to encourage attacks before a flat run-in.

It might be a bit short though. I think it took me 35-40 mins, so would obviously be quicker at race speed.

I'll update the table now.....

 

[bridgy]

@bridgy - I did the 'Sand and Sequoias' route on a training ride last week and thought that'd make a great course for our races. There's 3 climbs (but not too long) that would encourage some aggressive riding and some short sharp 'bumps' that take you by surprise to encourage attacks before a flat run-in.

It might be a bit short though. I think it took me 35-40 mins, so would obviously be quicker at race speed.

I'll update the table now.....

Looks like a 25-30 minute route for most (based on the times in our Strava club) - definitley a candidate for a league race but perhaps a bit on the short side for a finale?

 

[peterob]

Here's the latest table with the weekend's times added.

It's very tight at the top with just 12 secs separating the top 3. I don't think realistically me or @berty bassett can infiltrate the podium unless we re-do a stage and I told myself that I'd only do each stage once (only re-did stage 3 yesterday as I was worried my first attempt may have been skewed due to a incorrectly calibrated PM).

All to play for this week!