You doing the stage early could make it interesting. I'm 3 mins behind you at the moment. Depending what time you do stage 7 in will dictate whether I do a pootle ride or push on and see if I can claw that 3 mins back. In my head I'm expecting a pootle, but if you're over 3 mins behind my recent PB up the Alpe I could be tempted to race
I'm hoping you push hard and set me a time I can't beat so I can have an easy night 
Cheers @bridgy
. I'll see if I can fit that in.
Wish I'd given it a bit more in the final lap now, but I suppose being in the 'race' may have helped eeked out a few more seconds too.
Yeah but my point is that whole 9 minutes is just your penalty for not having done stage 2 yet. If you can get a decent time on Wednesday in the H&H race it's game on!you live in a dream world9 mins !!! if i could claw back anything - and its a big if , it would only be seconds ! - unless your planning a snapped chain or something - one sporting gesture deserves another
It will be Road to Sky route up the Alpe and then back down. I am doing a recce of the course as we speak just to make sure the segment I have in mind works OK and so I get the distance right for the meet up. I will post a link to the segment we will use for timing later
You doing the stage early could make it interesting. I'm 3 mins behind you at the moment. Depending what time you do stage 7 in will dictate whether I do a pootle ride or push on and see if I can claw that 3 mins back. In my head I'm expecting a pootle, but if you're over 3 mins behind my recent PB up the Alpe I could be tempted to race
@mjd1988 are you riding live on Thursday?
I can definitely pootle nowNo I'm in Morocco till Saturday, have fun! Ill be thinking of you guys doing the alpe while I eat and drink lamb and wine until I fall asleep
Unless @CXRAndy decides to do stages 6 and 7 
Thanks. And I'll claw back a few seconds when you add my stage2 effort (gotham grind). 1:07:01 handicapped, 1:00:01 actual race time (according to ZP). 213W, so a new post-surgery FTP, up from 211W :-)There were a number of league rides over the weekend so I've updated the table with the results. Please let me know if there are any others I may have missed.
@JLaw & @Alongo - I've added you to the league
New Andy - I guessed that you're a Cat B rider on Zwift (and a good one at that if you were so close to Bridgy last week). If you can join Team Cyclechat within ZwiftPower it'll be easy for us to collate the results (and add Cyclechat to your name in Zwift if you haven't already done so, so that we can spot you in races).
@Norry1 if you (or anyone else) wants to do the Thursday meet up race on a different day or time, you need to select the Road to Sky route in Watopia, and ride up the alpe round the flat bit at the top, and carry on back down. The segment we'll use for timings is this one https://www.strava.com/segments/17254696?filter=club&gender=all&club_id=126532 which is called "d'huez up and down from spawn" ( it might be in hidden segments for you). If you ride for a minimum of 34km from the start point when you go to Road to Sky you will definitely have completed the full segment.
Paul - can't work out from the Strava map, but it looks like the segment starts from inside the jungle gate and not the start/finish line. Is this your take too? This means if the Meetup starts where we normally do, we will have 10 mins or so of riding before we get to the segment start. I'm assuming we just go from the off at our own pace although this will mean we are unlikely to be anywhere near each other once we start the 'race' proper. I for one won't be pushing hard until I get inside the gate
Carl, it is indeed about 10 minutes from where you spawn on the "Road to Sky" route until you get the the actual Alpe, BUT this is all part of the segment we're using which itself starts at the Road to Sky spawn location. So it's full gas from the very start, ride for 34km. See my ride here (which is exactly what we'll do on Thursday), and compare with the segment I said we're using - the ride and segment start at the same place, no lead in https://www.strava.com/activities/2240336274Paul - can't work out from the Strava map, but it looks like the segment starts from inside the jungle gate and not the start/finish line. Is this your take too? This means if the Meetup starts where we normally do, we will have 10 mins or so of riding before we get to the segment start. I'm assuming we just go from the off at our own pace although this will mean we are unlikely to be anywhere near each other once we start the 'race' proper. I for one won't be pushing hard until I get inside the gate
I have stupidly wide feet and found that my Bontrager Road Race shoes were the most comfortable. They were one of the cheapest too, which was nice.
