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alex_cycles
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My 'Racing Score' is declining. I've had some decent results, standard C cat not RS category events. I guess the competition must be lower grade to effect my reduction.
Was 426.........now 418.
At this rate I may just fall into the sub 400 bracket
To begin with, everyone's ZRS was reducing by 0.5 every day as a natural decay (but not going below their seed score).
I think that has now been changed, but you might have had several days of -0.5 already in the bag since I think you've only done 1 ZRS race on 4th July in RGV?
ZRS will only be affected by ZRS races at the moment (as long as you're not setting new power records at 30s and 10m in other Zwift activities)
alex_cycles
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Still very much in the test phase. This is only week 2. Rolling it out fully would be rather risky. But I think it's likely to happen once it's tweaked and tested a bit more. I've done 7 ZRS races so far and gone from 540 to 577. But I'm leaving it alone for a few days now as I've got DRS on Tuesday.
mjd1988
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Today will hopefully be as good. Visma need to go for it all day and make it super hard, looks like they rested wva for this purpose or to go in breakaway. That said UAE have a stronger team even with ayuso gone and pogacar may still be stronger this year
Legs
usually riding on Zwift or up steep hills...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Jo’s away for the weekend so I did the JETT 100km endurance ride last night after the boys went to bed. It’s listed as 3.0-3.3w/kg but they get rid of the fence on the hills and everything goes crazy. Impressive ride management, though - they regrouped quickly after each climb.
Definitely felt that I got a good workout, even if I didn’t get to bed until past midnight.
Definitely felt that I got a good workout, even if I didn’t get to bed until past midnight.
Mrs and I had a shake down ride with around 90% pannier full load.
We were visiting friends who are off travelling in their converted van from Alaska to the tip of Argentina over 8 months.
Wife did magnificently, with a round trip of 60 miles.
By far the furthest she has ever cycled in one day. She's a lot more confident of being able to cope with the route King Alfred's
We were visiting friends who are off travelling in their converted van from Alaska to the tip of Argentina over 8 months.
Wife did magnificently, with a round trip of 60 miles.
By far the furthest she has ever cycled in one day. She's a lot more confident of being able to cope with the route King Alfred's
alex_cycles
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I had quite a good race in DRS SoC this morning. I wanted to try and go up to Sapphire with a win.
Smashed FTS 1 and went over 900W for the first time got 1st there, 6th FAL on the next one then 3rd FTS.
Went a bit early at the finish as it ended on a kicker.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZm-A3Qu-6w
Smashed FTS 1 and went over 900W for the first time got 1st there, 6th FAL on the next one then 3rd FTS.
Went a bit early at the finish as it ended on a kicker.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZm-A3Qu-6w
We stopped there too, ☀️ ☀️Well King Alfred's Way was fantastic and brutal in equal measure! If anyone's ever thinking of doing it feel free to reach out and pick my brains!
My main advice would be to either make sure you go after some kind of prolonged drought! Many of the trails were extremely wet and muddy still and that really slows you up. Doing it in 3 days in those conditions was quite tough with long days in the saddle each day.
Overall though, great fun and really glad we did it - I might be able to sit back on a bike saddle some time tomorrow I hope
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Mud glorious mud
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Devil's Punchbowl (big climb up to here!)
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Butser Hill - steeper than it looks!
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King Alfred himself
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We went round this one!
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Basingstoke Canal
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Finish at Stonehenge in the early evening sun
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Pub stop in Avebury (with umbrella up for rain rather than sun protection!)
Just a few more days left. So far really lucky with weather. Rained on for 30 mins first day.
mjd1988
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That's an impressive pannier/storage set up!
Commuted again today, just seeing how good the Garmin connect app is for data, it's actually really comprehensive
When wives travel, we have to bring everything!
She's carrying clothes, Im carrying spares and tools
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