Zwift Chat

[alex_cycles]

Friday Smash this week.
Race 1: Downtown Dolphin - 1 lap
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5406000

Race 2: Queen's Highway 5 laps
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5406010

 

[Whorty]

Burrito!

That's a very good point about the draft PU. I was thinking feathers might have encouraged attacks but if everyone got a ghost that would be wild 🤣 Certainly better visibility as my screen was very like the above, everyone hitting draft at the same time.

Burrito, that's the one haha
Ghost PU would have been so much fun - a whole team attacking at once and dropping their ghost, could have really shaken up the race.

 

[steverob]

That reminds me, one rider in our race (not on my team) somehow got a feather at every banner. Don't think it helped them particularly over everyone else, but it was very strange.

 

[bridgy]

just didn't seem the right tactic, don't know relative strength of team as it's only the second race, course profile not right as no medium length climbs, very evenly matched pack due to the velo scoring system. If it was later in the series probably more chance of teams forcing something as there would be a better idea about which teams to beat.

As it turned out no one wanted to lose which led to a neutralised race, which was the right call. Glad to see Steves race was a bit more animated though as I really like the idea of TTRs in principle

I agree with this - needed a course wih a long enough climb to force a split I think. The pace was strong enough on the short climbs of this course to deter attacks - particularly from a team of 4 - but a longer climb might have naturally seen the group split up and then we might have had an interesting race on our hands