Team BKool CycleChat

[Brendan Parker]

You certainly clocked some impressive speed and watts whilst climbing!

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25mph uphill, I ll take that

 

[gbrown]

@peterob still showing low watts while flying along!

I noticed on the recordings there is a bit where @BILL S is drafting you while doing twice the watts you are displaying!

From around 12 minutes into the middle recording...

 

[AAAC 76C]

Provisional Handicaps for next time

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I like the way I always get a bigger rest at the begining but still never seem to catch the leader.

 

[gbrown]

does that mean a realistic handicap should be applied

It uses a combination of your last 4 rides (weighted to the more recent ones) so it won't be so bad!

You are certainly showing good progress...

 

[AAAC 76C]

Nice little cool-down race there @AAAC 76C.

http://www.bkool.com/bkoolSessionHistory/multiSessionClassification?heat=1&category=BKOOLLIGAEN&sessionIds=10624098;11551397;11788419

Unfinished business and there was a lot of dust about tonight so I thought ''why not'.
I saw a big ride going up a big hill so I thought I would try and get promoted.
I may have failed by a watt or two but it was close.

 

[Aleman]

Errrrmmm, I was supposed to start at 8:45 this evening, but didn't and now my handicap is 9:00 ... and I missed last week as well.

I don't mind Bkool Fairy Dust but really !!

 

[AAAC 76C]

Just realised what I did so well tonight.
I'd taken my magnet carrier and stepper off to photograph it for @theboxers and forgot to fit it again.


NOT!

 

[gbrown]

As much as I'd like to say yes no i was on the pro feeling very slow found it tough tonight seam to be going backwards

OK, I'll adjust your handicap accordingly!

 

[gbrown]

Errrrmmm, I was supposed to start at 8:45 this evening, but didn't and now my handicap is 9:00 ... and I missed last week as well.

I don't mind Bkool Fairy Dust but really !!

The Handicaps aren't absolute, they are relative! If someone else needs a larger head start, or a new person joins, then everyone else gets a slightly larger Handicap, it isn't you being singled out, it's just the baseline slid 15 minutes further!

 

[gbrown]

I like the way I always get a bigger rest at the begining but still never seem to catch the leader.

Yes, there is always someone else who out performs by more than you. When you are so fast in the first place it is hard to go that much faster!

The Handicap algorithms try to take this into account, by allowing for a greater improvement in the slower times, but this time Bert, Bill and Pete just improved by too much!

 

[AAAC 76C]

Unfinished business and there was a lot of dust about tonight so I thought ''why not'.
I saw a big ride going up a big hill so I thought I would try and get promoted.
I may have failed by a watt or two but it was close.

Failed by 0.9 watts

Needed 481

Who am I kidding! (other than myself)

 

[AAAC 76C]

Yes, there is always someone else who out performs by more than you. When you are so fast in the first place it is hard to go that much faster!

The Handicap algorithms try to take this into account, by allowing for a greater improvement in the slower times, but this time Bert, Bill and Pete just improved by too much!

I knew I was beat when the leaders were already well down the final descent before I hit it.
Didn't help having the BillRob twins working together ahead of me with no @bridgy to help.
Specially as @peterob blew me away in the last session.

 

[Brusgaard]

Failed by 0.9 watts

Needed 481

Who am I kidding! (other than myself)


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Well, that's your penalty for not doing the 8 meters of descent!

 

[Brendan Parker]

It uses a combination of your last 4 rides (weighted to the more recent ones) so it won't be so bad!

You are certainly showing good progress...

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Thanks for organising @gbrown, its appreciated

 

[LBHIFI]

Something's odd about the avg. power calculation in my ride:
http://www.bkool.com/bkoolSessionHistory/showSessionSummary/6387605
I'ts almost entirely at 300 watt and yet the avg. "in motion" watts are 258 watt, almost the same as "In total".
So we can't even rely on the avg. calculations?