Zwift Chat

[steverob]

Good luck to everyone riding in stage 1 of the ZRL tonight - gonna be a bit of a shock to the system for most of us I suspect!

Yeah, just looked back and this is the first TTT I've done since December 2023 and even then that was not really a proper one - only four riders, two of whom were racing up a level, it was basically a get round and finish to get some points job, knowing we'd come last regardless. Have to go back to March of '23 for an actual competitive TTT.

 

[alex_cycles]

Good luck to everyone riding in stage 1 of the ZRL tonight - gonna be a bit of a shock to the system for most of us I suspect!

@alex_cycles - have you managed to get your TT bike fully upgraded yet?!

No. Just level 1. I don’t do many TTs, so it hasn’t been a priority.
Have a good one. We came 4th

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/f6RoZQnz52M?si=DYPecsA1t_Sk844u&t=538

 

[bridgy]

No. Just level 1. I don’t do many TTs, so it hasn’t been a priority.
Have a good one. We came 4th

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/f6RoZQnz52M?si=DYPecsA1t_Sk844u&t=538

Oh well done - I forgot you race in the mornings

 

[alex_cycles]

Oh well done - I forgot you race in the mornings

Yeah it was the main reason I switched to DIRT. That and Discord team comms rather than FartBook

 

[steverob]

The DIRTy Ducks won our TTT, finishing 27 seconds ahead of the next best team!

One of my fellow riders was streaming it on Twitch with all the Discord chat included, so I’ll link that here instead of my silent video.


View: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2568024282?tt_content=vod&tt_medium=mobile_web_share

 

[mjd1988]

TTTs are good workouts aren't they! Unfortunately we only had 3 starters so were on a hiding to nothing but luckily Paul was there to do the lionshare. Time towards upgrade of the TT bike as well

 

[Legs]

Sorry I couldn’t make it tonight, I was busy retaining my title at my club’s HC championship. Knocked 19s off last year’s time, from 2:35 down to 2:16, which the old-timers suspect may be a course record.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Just completed Baseline #1 group workout, three attempts at best 5secs within 10sec freeride intervals.

Very easy workout besides the sprints.

Almost 50% better than my 90 day best from Tiny Races a few days ago.😱

Used 4iiii for power, forgot to calibrate beforehand, last calibrated before Tiny Races.

Barely raced on Zwift most of summer and I rarely try sprinting when riding outdoors.

 

[Legs]

Just completed Baseline #1 group workout, three attempts at best 5secs within 10sec freeride intervals.

Very easy workout besides the sprints.

Almost 50% better than my 90 day best from Tiny Races a few days ago.😱

Used 4iiii for power, forgot to calibrate beforehand, last calibrated before Tiny Races.

Barely raced on Zwift most of summer and I rarely try sprinting when riding outdoors.

Sounds really good. You’ll never get anywhere near your peak sprinting power at Tiny Races - the 6 minutes of eyeballs-out riding beforehand blunts your legs quite a bit. I can do 1100W+ for 5s quite easily on fresh legs, but I’m not sure I’ve ever topped 1000W in any race.

 

[bridgy]

TTTs are good workouts aren't they! Unfortunately we only had 3 starters so were on a hiding to nothing but luckily Paul was there to do the lionshare. Time towards upgrade of the TT bike as well

Yeah that was a bit of a disatrous start to this ZRL wasn't it?! Bram had to drop out last minute and then TWO riders were unable to join the race (not sure if user error or Zwift issues but they're experienced racers in ZRL and knowing Zwift it wouldn't surprise me if it was a Zwift/WTRL issue!) - which left us with just 3 so no way of even getting a finishing time.

We ploughed on regardless though and put in what I think was a reasonable time of 37:57 (from zwiftpower) considering we were just 3 from the start. Hopefully next week runs a bit more smoothly!