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Whorty

Gets free watts from the Atom ;)
Location
Wiltshire
Well done boss - that looked bloody hard work - one I'm not at all looking forward to. May see if @rob01792 fancies spinning CG2 with company.

:thumbsup:
Only advice I can give is take the first hill easy. It hits 8% and I cramped up in left thigh which buggered me the rest of the ride. I don't think I'll be doing that one again!
 

AAAC 76C

Large Member
Location
LIVING THE DREAM
380 + (380 - 360)/2 = 390 ???

Or did you add the extra 30 watts to make up for the rain?

To be honest Bill it's quite hard to set your ERG level unless you have a decent constant flat or climb and when I pushed the button it came out as 380.
At 380 I seemed to be stuck with Steve and I was almost thinking he must be on ERG as well (until I looked at his stats) and it was kind of infuriating because if he went past me I could do nothing.
So at an opportune time I switched of ERG at about km 10.5 got some distance (and a rest from ERG).
I switched it back on at km 17.4 and this time it came out to 390 watts.
I stuck with that until 5 km out from the finish where I was getting a lot of hassle to dig in from Jim so I switched it of and re-engaged at 440 watts.
I have got to say that was one of the toughest work outs I have done inn ages, 40 km of constant and consistent effort, no micro-rests on downhill sections just minute after minute of grind.
That has to be good Time Trial Training however you get the feeling your not going as quick as you would go, in the virtual world, as you would with ERG not engaged.
I have a feeling quite a few will be able to stay with my ghost on Thursday and shoot by me in the last km or two but that's kind of why I did it i.e. to give you all a carrot.
 

Bored Man

Upstanding Member
Location
Arrochar
When u thinking jim cos thursday i was going to do the sc2 live at 7 saturday im doing bristol to swansea friday ill rest so tomorrow or mondays good for me

Monday looks good Rob. Gunna spin tomorrow. I'll join you for Sc2 @ 7 on Thursday as I can't do 5 as I'm taking HID to the train station (weekend alone with my trainer). Saturday I'm thinking of doing the Pru 100 on Bkool as the weather is poop up here - it's all setup with a few bots for company - I just need to sort out my playlist. :music::bicycle:
 

BILL S

Guru
Location
London
To be honest Bill it's quite hard to set your ERG level unless you have a decent constant flat or climb and when I pushed the button it came out as 380.
At 380 I seemed to be stuck with Steve and I was almost thinking he must be on ERG as well (until I looked at his stats) and it was kind of infuriating because if he went past me I could do nothing.
So at an opportune time I switched of ERG at about km 10.5 got some distance (and a rest from ERG).
I switched it back on at km 17.4 and this time it came out to 390 watts.
I stuck with that until 5 km out from the finish where I was getting a lot of hassle to dig in from Jim so I switched it of and re-engaged at 440 watts.
I have got to say that was one of the toughest work outs I have done inn ages, 40 km of constant and consistent effort, no micro-rests on downhill sections just minute after minute of grind.
That has to be good Time Trial Training however you get the feeling your not going as quick as you would go, in the virtual world, as you would with ERG not engaged.
I have a feeling quite a few will be able to stay with my ghost on Thursday and shoot by me in the last km or two but that's kind of why I did it i.e. to give you all a carrot.

I never tried playing with erg mode so I've no idea what it feels like. I saw that Steve was ahead somewhat after the start and I thought he must be pushing really hard. I was wondering if you could do anything about it while in erg mode but it seems you can't. I think you relied on him slowing to get past again.
Thanks for providing us with a good fast ghost at the front for Thursday but I don't know if any of us will be able to draft it at that speed, obviously depending on who turns up. I'll certainly give it a go and hang on as long as possible.
 

Marino.g

Veteran
Location
Taunton
Monday looks good Rob. Gunna spin tomorrow. I'll join you for Sc2 @ 7 on Thursday as I can't do 5 as I'm taking HID to the train station (weekend alone with my trainer). Saturday I'm thinking of doing the Pru 100 on Bkool as the weather is poop up here - it's all setup with a few bots for company - I just need to sort out my playlist. :music::bicycle:
I'll try for Thursday SC2 @7:00 if you don't mind me hanging on:hello:
 

Whorty

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Location
Wiltshire
Just completed SC2 but messed up selecting my ghosts:sad: .
I picked riders of a similar level and went ahead at the start and stayed there for at least a 3 mins lead with no drafting .:banghead:
School boy error :tongue: You'll need to do a second run now to improve your time :okay:
 

BILL S

Guru
Location
London
School boy error :tongue: You'll need to do a second run now to improve your time :okay:

Of course if you do choose ghosts at the same level as yourself, the way to take advantage is to draft them for the first 3/4 and then destroy them on the last quarter. This is probably not as good a way as choosing quicker ghosts and drafting them the whole way.
 

AAAC 76C

Large Member
Location
LIVING THE DREAM
How I was willing Bonar on.
I watched him do something similar in the Tour of Poland a while back.
The Commentators were a bit surprised how little time Tony Martin spent on the front to pull him back and Chris Boringman made up some excuse about exponential watts required above 50 kph but the truth is the Panzer probably wanted Bodnar to win even if might be at the cost of one or other fellow country men or his sprinter.
Also:
1. Well done Edddie Boz for providing us with a little humour
2. Contador for reminding us not only 'G' falls of his bike for no apparent reason.
3. MK for showing everyone that raw power over aero can win, and win and win and win and win.
Today's stage is when you dealry want to be able to see who is doing watts, firstly from Bodnar vs the head of the peleton and then from the sprinters.
 

<Tommy>

Illegitimi non carborundum
Location
Camden, London
How I was willing Bonar on.
I watched him do something similar in the Tour of Poland a while back.
The Commentators were a bit surprised how little time Tony Martin spent on the front to pull him back and Chris Boringman made up some excuse about exponential watts required above 50 kph but the truth is the Panzer probably wanted Bodnar to win even if might be at the cost of one or other fellow country men or his sprinter.
Also:
1. Well done Edddie Boz for providing us with a little humour
2. Contador for reminding us not only 'G' falls of his bike for no apparent reason.
3. MK for showing everyone that raw power over aero can win, and win and win and win and win.
Today's stage is when you dealry want to be able to see who is doing watts, firstly from Bodnar vs the head of the peleton and then from the sprinters.

I'm finding the flat stages a bit dry to be honest AAAC. Fair play to Kittel for giving the impression he could win from 50m back with 100m to go but it's well... a bit meh really.

Bring on the Pyrenees and hopefully some decent attacks.
 

AAAC 76C

Large Member
Location
LIVING THE DREAM
Here is my watts profile from Tuesday by the way.
You can see where I switch ERG: on at 1 km (380 watts), off at 10 km (free-style), on at 17.5 km (390 watts) and then finally of and on at 34km (440 watts).

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AAAC 76C

Large Member
Location
LIVING THE DREAM
I'm finding the flat stages a bit dry to be honest AAAC. Fair play to Kittel for giving the impression he could win from 50m back with 100m to go but it's well... a bit meh really.

Bring on the Pyrenees and hopefully some decent attacks.

Not from Contador I don't think
Not from Qintana
Definitely not from Porte
Did Fuglsang damage his wrist today?
So its Aru, Bardet, Martin or perhaps Rigo not forgetting Yates.
Contador might try and mix it up but having fallen today as well I expect not.
However if Froome is feeling good why not Landa just to put the cat amongst the pigeons and make the other teams chase.

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Contador admits that things aren't going well in the race and today's crashes put an end to the idea of attacking in the Pyrenees. "This didn't help, now we will have to wait to the Alps. But my motivation is always high, particularly because of all the people that show me their support."

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Two small fractures for Fuglsang in Tour de France crash
 
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