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[13 rider]

Yes. There is a threshold for category upgrade and a slightly higher threshold WTRL use for DQ.
If you hit the upgrade threshold without going over the DQ threshold, your points stand but you can't carry on with that team. If you go over both, you get DQed as well.

For example in C --> B it's something like 3.36 zFTP but if you do 3.4 you can upgrade without DQ. If you do 3.5 you're DQed as well.
(Those numbers may not be exactly spot-on, but you get the idea).

Thanks Alex , I understand it now

 

[alex_cycles]

Friday Smash this week
Race 1: 2km of 3 Little Sisters ending just after Hilly KoM banner. No draft. https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5316834
Race 2: 1 lap of Richmond UCI (16.5km 160m) https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5316843

 

[Whorty]

It is too much. I agree. Looks like they've put both points races as rollers with punchy 2 minute climbs, both scratch races as 12-15 minute climbs (if you add the pre-segment climb) and everything is laps rather than longer routes (apart from Roule ma Poule which is twice up Petit reverse).
I'm fine with Cobbled Climbs, but Leith is a b'stard. There'll be bodies all over the road.

I'm just glad I'm still a C and not likely (ever?) to be a B again because there is no way I'd be signing up to the volume of riding the Bs have to do. I struggle to sleep on Tuesdays after the race already

 

[Whorty]

We have a few super-lightweights in our league - and two of them are in our team! The only problem is that neither of them could make last night's race - d'oh!

Because of that I was our highest placed rider and so the team finished 9th out of 10. With those two in the team we'd have probably done really well, but that's how it goes sometimes.

I have a cold, my peak flow is registering 60% lung efficiency and I was our top rider last night I have suffered today though, my lungs are still burning and I'm puffing my asthma meds more than Froomey in the Alpes haha
We could do with a 50kg rider in our team, that's for sure!

 

[Whorty]

Well done. My infamous win over David Hivey came on race 3 of that set of races about 2 years ago. Just a single race mind, he took overall and I got silver that week. No I will NEVER shut up about it. I've got his Afro scalp on my wall.



Mad. Sounds like your fitness is returning

Ah, the Afro scalp - we did like winning one of those back in the day

I came 14th in the ZRS race yesterday. I created the first KoM in lead group of 14 but my chest was on fire with cold and asthma so I knew I wasn't competing for the win ... my plan was to hang on to the group to KoM climb 2, and pace my way up and hang on to 14th place.

Minute into the 2nd KoM and I let the lead group go. There was a rider 40 seconds behind but I thought I could hold him off - but he chased me all the way, crested just after me and tried to jump me on the descent. I held on to his wheel. He then twice tried to drop me on the tarmac section through the village, and failed. He then started his sprint early to jump me to the finish. I was hoping not to need to sprint but I couldn't let the youngster get away with trying to drop me so I did a Hivey, cruised his wheel then jumped him on the last 300 metres. Broke his heart haha. He congratulated me on a great sprint finish.
Can't wait to get this cold gone so I can get my sprint back working full pace again (although it clearly won't be needed next week on those 2 damn climbs in the TT