It didn't work immediately as we managed to close them down but I guess it softened us up enough as two of them got away shortly after on one of the climbs. To be fair they were a much stronger team than us - it was a good workout!
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It didn't work immediately as we managed to close them down but I guess it softened us up enough as two of them got away shortly after on one of the climbs. To be fair they were a much stronger team than us - it was a good workout!
Thant's great Tim! Do they use fixed gear bikes for the kids? Even that can take some getting used to if they've never ridden a bike without a freewheel before, let alone everything else. It's great to give the kids the opportunity to try that out though!
Legs
usually riding on Zwift or up steep hills...
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Yes, of course they're fixed!
One of the best bits of riding I saw all evening was when one of the kids pulled his cleat out of the pedal, but managed to slow the bike down sufficiently with his other leg to to get down onto the cote d'azur and the infield to clip back in.
I used to commute on fixed and it was a pain pulling away from traffic lights to synchronise clipping in while the pedals were turning - but it's easier to trackstand on fixed than a freewheel!
I know all/most zwift races start hard, but I've never had a start like this Ladder race earlier tonight!! Chill out guys
View: https://youtu.be/RiXJfpoY3TI?si=BxKfpmwUPNw-Hys3
I've not done a ladder race yet, can't get my schedule lines up, but as a tactic that was pretty spot on. Brutal for you guys on the receiving end, but clearly pre-planned by them and executed pretty well.
I know all/most zwift races start hard, but I've never had a start like this Ladder race earlier tonight!! Chill out guys
One of the things I noticed since I started back doing Zwift races is that the starts are nothing like as hard as they used to be. Maybe I am in lower pens, but I find most starts almost comfortable.
100% agree - generally definitely not as hard as they used to be. I'm assuming with time everyone's realised they don't have to go QUITE as hard as they used to assume! That's why that race last night stood out!
Did Alex Friday smash again today ,the 1st race is an all out smash no draft lap of Crit City which is basically a power test and I've been targeting 300w for the duration which I've yet to achieve and today's came in at 299w ☹️. I did nearly kill Alex watching his video as he was desperate not to lose velo scores by being beaten by me 😁. The 2nd race I was made to regret a jokey comment about newbies doing the work to which the newbie went to the front and did 5+ w\kg and dropped me 🤣. A long sustained effort to close a 20 sec gap just to arrive at the bottom of the climb to be dropped again 🤣. Chat will be turned off in future races
alex_cycles
Guru
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I think a lot of it is the transition away from power categories as well. Used to be if you were sandbagging you coud get away with massive power before the start line that never counted on ZP.
It's much nicer all round. Why kill yourself right at the start of a long race? Stupid, really.
The last few Fridays I've being doing Alex smash races in the morning and club ladder races in the evening ,I thought I got a night off tonight but a late drop out and I'm called up ,quick warm up legs feel terrible not looking forward to Spinfinity in New York . Thankfully a relaxed start My Job was to pace the Brooklyn bridge climb which I managed to do dropping 2 of there riders and keeping our team together , Their strongest rider dropped to help the others so I and another teammate kept the pace on until their strongest rider had to chase back alone burning matches leaving 5 against 3 , with 2.5km to go that strongest rider went for it and I was the only 1 who could close the gap he kept trying to drop me but somehow I hung on , I kicked at 300mts he hung on for 50mts before thankfully he blew up and I somehow won and did my 2nd best 20min power despite racing this morning no idea where that result came from and the team won 😁
I've been meaning to get on Zwift this week. Just physically cant, absolutely knackered each evening.
Mrs and I being installing our solar panels. Feels like we've being going to the gym everyday, ache all over.
Thoroughly recommend to anyone wanting all over body toning workout 🏋♀️🏋♂️
Mrs and I being installing our solar panels. Feels like we've being going to the gym everyday, ache all over.
Thoroughly recommend to anyone wanting all over body toning workout 🏋♀️🏋♂️
Update on last night's ladder zwift ☹️ Team had 2 riders dqed so no win ,1 rider had no HRM which we knew about after the race but we still had enough points for the win the other rider has been flagged for sticky watts . It's certainly wasn't sticky watts in the case of push and coast as his cadence shows he never stopped pedalling ,his power file is a bit spikey but nothing outrageous but it got flagged by their algorithm. The same guy has recently raced ZRL and DRS without any issues . Ladder racing say it's probably equipment related but the guys watt bike was serviced 4 months ago . Now the guy is reluctant to race because if thinks it could happen again . Anyone seen this issue before
Edit this was his 1st ladder race
Edit this was his 1st ladder race
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mjd1988
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It is very unusual for sticky watts to be picked up so you'd assume they'd have to be pretty confident.
That said I'm not expert but it doesn't look too bad - although the sharp spikes, when you look close up, is the cadence dropping all the way to zero? Can't really tell from the zoomed out picture. Others might be much better at spotting it.
That said I'm not expert but it doesn't look too bad - although the sharp spikes, when you look close up, is the cadence dropping all the way to zero? Can't really tell from the zoomed out picture. Others might be much better at spotting it.
Agreed it a good thing sticky Watts is picked up I have seen blatant cheating in YouTube videos . At 1 point of the race this guy got of the front slightly and I was watching his W/kg compared to the guy leading the chase and I saw nothing but a constant figure . Like I say he completed in DRS on Tuesday and nothing was flagged so unless it's a issue that just occurred do different race organiser use different checking protocols
