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[Norry1]

The guy who won the sportive was over 20 minutes faster than the guy who won the actual race?

Seems odd... he’s in the 50-54 group so no more excuses from some of you old farts about your age!

I can see that I came in the top 300 of 1800 riders so that might mean I came in the top 25% of my age group. But I would imagine it’s close to be honest. Can anyone tell where they finished within their age group?

You were 289 of 2213.

278 of 1891 males

38 of 173 in the 35-39 Age Group

All according to the App.

I was 548 of 2213 and 57 of 264 in Age Group.

We all off to Italy?

 

[bobinski]

Ageist Tony, I was 56th of 308 in my age group of old farts

Lots of people with no times possibly because they didn’t make it or mechanicals or injury.

Did anyone see a Zwift racing team won the Time Time trial? Some of them had never met before. Bonkers.

 

[<Tommy>]

You were 289 of 2213.

278 of 1891 males

38 of 173 in the 35-39 Age Group

All according to the App.

I was 548 of 2213 and 57 of 264 in Age Group.

We all off to Italy?

I’m not sure my missus would forgive me .
I’m surprised how well we finished up. It felt like there were loads of people already at the finish when we crossed the line

Ageist Tony, I was 56th of 308 in my age group of old farts

Lots of people with no times possibly because they didn’t make it or mechanicals or injury.

Did anyone see a Zwift racing team won the Time Time trial? Some of them had never met before. Bonkers.

Haha! It’s you guys playing the age card! People like aaac and the guy who came first showing the younger guys how it’s done! Although that time does seem a little questionable. He could of stopped for a picnic had a sleep, and still got on the podium.

 

[CXRAndy]

my time hasn't been recorded, unless you lot can find it. I estimate 3hr50 with stops

 

[Norry1]

my time hasn't been recorded, unless you lot can find it. I estimate 3hr50 with stops

Yes it was - I saw it earlier. I'll find it for you.

 

[Norry1]

3:48:39

760 of 2213 overall

699 of 1891 male

153 of 408 in 50-54

 

[Norry1]

..... assuming your name is Andrew Sowden

 

[CXRAndy]

..... assuming your name is Andrew Sowden

I can neither confirm or deny that name

3:48:39

760 of 2213 overall

699 of 1891 male

153 of 408 in 50-54

Chuffed with that. I wanted to break the 4 hour barrier as initial target, so

 

[CXRAndy]

Happier after a few beers, change of clothes

 

[bobinski]

I have spent far too much time this morning looking at the ride on Strava. The difference in speed in the draft is huge. The bigger the group the greater the advantage. Fall off and speed plummets especially relative to effort.

 

[<Tommy>]

Happier after a few beers, change of clothes

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I’ll never know how those legs keep me upright!

 

[CXRAndy]

Here is a classic example of pack to solo pace, My self purple line and Bob reference. The sharp drop is my feed stop, followed by solo effort losing time then a spike when I jumped onto a pack and started to claw back time

 

[Norry1]

Andy - how do you do that in Strava?

 

[bridgy]

Finally got home about 11.30pm - tired and emotional

Should have gone straight to bed really but instead worked my way through all the food in the house!

Was a really great day guys - so good to meet @Randyberlin , @LBHIFI and @Norry1 for the first time and to see @CXRAndy , @bobinski , @TurboTommy and @Breedon again - cheers to you all (with a pint of that alcohol free "isotonic recovery" beer obviously!)

Next time, I'll listen to you Tommy and skip my turn on the front to try and avoid collapsing with cramp with 5 miles to go again! Well done to all you guys, everyone's times were fantastic. Shame we couldn't really all stick together - so hard to keep track on what's going on behind you when riding in a big group at those speeds. Although the jerseys did help with identifying each other!

24mph average for all of us for the first 10k says it all!

Thoroughly enjoyed the day - a very different challenge and experience to the Double Devil. Surfing the wheels in the peloton on closed roads with people cheering us on from the roadside was such a buzz. I'm very much up for doing that again next year...

 

[bridgy]

I’ll never know how those legs keep me upright!

You obviously put the factor 50 on them - unlike me! My legs are glowing like a deeper red version of the jerseys!