shimceltic
Veteran
Jim, just followed you round the course. Great time by you I'm 2 or 3 mins down! I have reported you to WADA though, your gonna need to give a urine sample
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I suppose it’s all a case of “same ship - different decks” I get trounced you get trounced... great fun though
shimceltic
Veteran
Are you and Randy on tomorrow for the live battle?
Too late for me as I live in Scotland - 7pm and I’m having one for the road, then bed. Early riser.. I can make Saturday re-runs sometimes, although Saturdays are usually beer days..
shimceltic
Veteran
I'm an early riser so Thursday is race, shower, 4 for the road bed. All crammed in to 2 hours!
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
I'm at Work on Thursdays but plan on the Saturday re run. This work gets in the way of my Bkooling. There is a big difference for me if I try to ride it alone or am in the live race. Heart rate and watts are way higher when "competing" note that's in quotes.I lack your discipline
I very much look forward to you, Shimceltic and me duking it out over the winter months..
The Autobus is dead - Long live the Autobus..
shimceltic
Veteran
Does anyone wear a hrm? My garmin watch doesn't pair to the bkool so I'm thinking of buying one of amazon
Decided to ride Stage 1 of the November league on my Tacx Neo as I renewed by Bkool subscription for a 3 month trial.
Quite impressed with the new simulator again, except that it clearly doesn't let the MacBook know that its running, as my screen saver came up again after 20 minutes. Had to get off the bike and touch the trackpad, then jump back on and ride. I'll need to extend or remove the screensaver timer on the MacBook.
The 13% ramp at the start of the stage kicked in right away on the Neo, so not only did I get the usual non-Bkool Pro slow start I got immediate resistance from the gradient.
Other than those issues, the new Sim felt pretty similar to what I'd expect from Zwift. Time was 30.34, average watts 245.7 and 3.1w/kg. Effort of 0.8 was a bit of a piss-take. I was actually trying, even though I'd done a Zwift session earlier.
My result hasn't been validated, so can an admin please sort that out. Classic Bkool reason of red cross against Coherent weight. It seems surprised that I weigh 80 kg, as my profile says. Apparently my expected weight was 0!
Quite impressed with the new simulator again, except that it clearly doesn't let the MacBook know that its running, as my screen saver came up again after 20 minutes. Had to get off the bike and touch the trackpad, then jump back on and ride. I'll need to extend or remove the screensaver timer on the MacBook.
The 13% ramp at the start of the stage kicked in right away on the Neo, so not only did I get the usual non-Bkool Pro slow start I got immediate resistance from the gradient.
Other than those issues, the new Sim felt pretty similar to what I'd expect from Zwift. Time was 30.34, average watts 245.7 and 3.1w/kg. Effort of 0.8 was a bit of a piss-take. I was actually trying, even though I'd done a Zwift session earlier.
My result hasn't been validated, so can an admin please sort that out. Classic Bkool reason of red cross against Coherent weight. It seems surprised that I weigh 80 kg, as my profile says. Apparently my expected weight was 0!
Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
- Location
- Blackpool UK
I too use a Garmin Soft Strap HRM, which I managed to kill due to salt corrosion in october ... Luckily I had bought one for Her Indoors and she never uses it ... so she'll never miss it
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
I really like the scosche. Both Bluetooth and ant and an arm band instead of chest strap. I think it was @theboxers who recommended it.
https://www.amazon.com/Scosche-RHYT...-3&keywords=scosche+rhythm+heart+rate+monitor
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
Welcome back!! Yes the new SIM doesn't let me do jackrabbit starts anymore on my pro. It should be much more fair to the non bkoo l riders.
