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[Aleman]

Cracking result @Aleman

I'll take it It's not quite the result it looks like, as we are the "Victims" of Divisional "Coalescence". The Cobalt development division , D1 and D2 were rearranged to give just D1 and D2 ... We were "relegated" to D2, which we are currently the winners of so I got a screenshot of it. With potentially only 5 racing tomorrow we will loose out big style on FAL points, although with my pathetic 4W/Kg 15s sprint performance were loosing a lot of points anyway

 

[alex_cycles]

Have you seen @Peter Salt 's Z2 rides?

He's a bot

 

[Peter Salt]

Have you seen @Peter Salt 's Z2 rides?

I take pride in that!

I do actually use my Z2 sessions to sometimes compare stuff - like the bike upgrades - it's not perfect 201 watts but close enough for a human.

Doing it with the basic Zwift TT bike at the minute - did 37.9k on Tempus Fugit with no upgrades, then 38.3 with the aero (lvl 1) and again the same after the weight (lvl 2). Plan to do it for all 5 stages and then repeat but with the Cadex TT. Curious what the outcome will be.

 

[alex_cycles]

That was hard. I got 17th on points. (Second in our team). Our team was 5th overall. We might have been 4th if we'd have had a 6th rider. Tough, attritional points race though. Happy with how I played it. (My live scoreboard missed my 3rd segment which threw out my numbers during the race - the guy who wrote it is looking into it )


View: https://www.youtube.com/live/7J6hagBa8NU?si=pmONFeojhD8yyEuY

 

[alex_cycles]

How did y'all get on?

 

[steverob]

Yo-yo'd between the front and the second pack all race - dropped on the hill, caught back up somewhere around the second sprint only to be dropped again on the climb, then repeat on all subsequent laps. Finished 17th overall (third within my team), with FAL's of 27th, 23rd, 22nd, 22nd, 21st and 11th (in that order). Annoyed that I got an aero for every single powerup.

Provisionally the team looks like they came 4th overall.

 

[alex_cycles]

Yo-yo'd between the front and the second pack all race - dropped on the hill, caught back up somewhere around the second sprint only to be dropped again on the climb, then repeat on all subsequent laps. Finished 17th overall (third within my team), with FAL's of 27th, 23rd, 22nd, 22nd, 21st and 11th (in that order). Annoyed that I got an aero for every single powerup.

Provisionally the team looks like they came 4th overall.

Sounds like quite a good race.
I got two Steamrollers - the very first two banners. The first being completely useless as a sprint was coming up next. 🤦‍♂️
The second was quite good. Smashed the second half of the climb with it and it helped a lot.

 

[bridgy]

Our team did really well and came 2nd overall - Bram and I didn't race this one but @mjd1988 and @Legs rode fantastically well, picking up lots of sprint points and staying in the front group and both finishing top 10 at the end.

I enjoyed watching from the sidelines and cheering the guys on!

 

[Whorty]

Yo-yo'd between the front and the second pack all race - dropped on the hill, caught back up somewhere around the second sprint only to be dropped again on the climb, then repeat on all subsequent laps. Finished 17th overall (third within my team), with FAL's of 27th, 23rd, 22nd, 22nd, 21st and 11th (in that order). Annoyed that I got an aero for every single powerup.

Provisionally the team looks like they came 4th overall.

Looks like we're provisional top until the finish points are added. I maxed out sprint one, top place and fastest time, but from then on I was hanging on. Dropped second lap but managed to hold through 15th place on the 2 sprints that lap and was then caught by 5 others on the climb into lap 3. I held on as best as I could but dropped on the final climb where I met up with a fellow Dodo and we rolled in together 17th and 18th.
Enjoyed my first proper race back. I have a lot of fitness to gain back, but very pleased that I still have a sprint somewhere in the locker, but for now it's just one full sprint per race

 

[alex_cycles]

Looks like we're provisional top until the finish points are added. I maxed out sprint one, top place and fastest time, but from then on I was hanging on. Dropped second lap but managed to hold through 15th place on the 2 sprints that lap and was then caught by 5 others on the climb into lap 3. I held on as best as I could but dropped on the final climb where I met up with a fellow Dodo and we rolled in together 17th and 18th.
Enjoyed my first proper race back. I have a lot of fitness to gain back, but very pleased that I still have a sprint somewhere in the locker, but for now it's just one full sprint per race

We'd all decided that getting a reasonable score on 6 sprints was gonna get more points than getting a massive one once and then getting dropped. So I was pitching for around 10th-15th place for 6 iterations. Managed it fairly well until lap 3 when I fell off to 20ish place, then dropped a few more after the final sprint but I'd already done 6 of the 7 races by then so didn't care about 3-5 more FIN points at that time. It's also hard to keep fighting when you're already dead

 

[Whorty]

We'd all decided that getting a reasonable score on 6 sprints was gonna get more points than getting a massive one once and then getting dropped. So I was pitching for around 10th-15th place for 6 iterations. Managed it fairly well until lap 3 when I fell off to 20ish place, then dropped a few more after the final sprint but I'd already done 6 of the 7 races by then so didn't care about 3-5 more FIN points at that time. It's also hard to keep fighting when you're already dead

We had 4 in the lead group the first two laps and I knew I wasn't going to make it to the end with the pack as I was barely hanging on over the climb so I had to make hay whilst the sun shone. I think in all but the finish line I was top 15-16 in most sprints, just couldn't get over the climb that last time to stay top 15.

I rolled in 18 with James at 17. Our final 2 riders were 20 and 21 I think, so out of 52 starters we had all 6 in the top half which was a great team effort.

I need to get back my surge and recovery superpower though

 

[steverob]

Here's the final sprint of Lap 3 from one of my teammates. I'd just caught back up to the lead pack at this point and jokingly offered to lead them out - they didn't take me up on my offer, but I did hit the front for a short while, before getting caught and falling back to 11th at the line (I'm the one in the pink cap).


View: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2573883108?t=00h54m20s

 

[mjd1988]

We'd all decided that getting a reasonable score on 6 sprints was gonna get more points than getting a massive one once and then getting dropped. So I was pitching for around 10th-15th place for 6 iterations. Managed it fairly well until lap 3 when I fell off to 20ish place, then dropped a few more after the final sprint but I'd already done 6 of the 7 races by then so didn't care about 3-5 more FIN points at that time. It's also hard to keep fighting when you're already dead

Yeah this approach seemed to work for us, better to be in the top 10 throughout rather than go all out in a few. We had a relatively big group at the front of around 20 out of 50ish, pace was never insane up the corkscrew climb thankfully, always seems to be just enough time to recover between sprints

 

[Aleman]

Well my race was pretty much as expected, a more or less solo TT effort at the top end of threshold 🤮🤮. Still the team are joint first in the league table (3rd) on points, which considering we have yet to put out a full team is pretty good

 

[Norry1]

Anyone got a Zwift Ride?

My good lady has recently got into cycling and has done over 500 miles with me outdoors in the past few months. She is loving it and now wants to get an indoor set-up.

We'll need 2 rigs as we may well end up wanting to ride at the same time so I won't be sharing my Tacx Neo 2T. She doesn't have a second bike so I'm thinking of getting a Zwift Ride. I wondered if anyone has one or has any opinions on them?