Milzy
Guru
Never get any draught or rain through the door luckily. It's the high roof with no insulation that's keeping it cold. I need to board over all the joists and put some rock wool on top. Then I'd cook with decent weather. You can't win.
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Permission to sulk??
I just did a handicap chase race. Entered as a C cat. Race was 3 laps of Volcano flat.
First lap was nice and fast and I stayed well up in the lead group, until just after the little 2 step climb into the volcano. Drifted back a little bit and paid for it as I got caught in a sticky draft. Surprisingly my shout of 'you c**t' at the offending sticky drafter didn't help and although I tried I just couldn't close the gap, which as usual then grew rapidly.
I got stuck in no man's land for a couple of minutes until the group behind caught me. But then nobody was pushing that hard and I was spending more time on the front then I really wanted to. The A and B group came past on the back half of the second lap and from then on nothing really changed until the end of the race.
I felt like I worked pretty hard throughout, staying in the lead group and lap 1 and doing a fair amount of work on laps 2 and 3. When the results came up, C cat had pretty much split into 3 groups, with me finishing in the 2nd, but my average power was the worst I've put out for months, at 2.8W/kg, average 214W.
Naturally, I swore again at the TV screen which failed to improve my result in any way. I then came in and explained it all to the wife, who is now a reluctant expert on sticky drafting. She sympathised with me and then carried on watching Tipping Point!
I really seem to have lost a bit of power during my break from racing and its frustrating. So I thought the best thing I could possibly do was sulk and then come on here and whinge!
That's better! 🤦♂️😧
I just did a handicap chase race. Entered as a C cat. Race was 3 laps of Volcano flat.
First lap was nice and fast and I stayed well up in the lead group, until just after the little 2 step climb into the volcano. Drifted back a little bit and paid for it as I got caught in a sticky draft. Surprisingly my shout of 'you c**t' at the offending sticky drafter didn't help and although I tried I just couldn't close the gap, which as usual then grew rapidly.
I got stuck in no man's land for a couple of minutes until the group behind caught me. But then nobody was pushing that hard and I was spending more time on the front then I really wanted to. The A and B group came past on the back half of the second lap and from then on nothing really changed until the end of the race.
I felt like I worked pretty hard throughout, staying in the lead group and lap 1 and doing a fair amount of work on laps 2 and 3. When the results came up, C cat had pretty much split into 3 groups, with me finishing in the 2nd, but my average power was the worst I've put out for months, at 2.8W/kg, average 214W.
Naturally, I swore again at the TV screen which failed to improve my result in any way. I then came in and explained it all to the wife, who is now a reluctant expert on sticky drafting. She sympathised with me and then carried on watching Tipping Point!
I really seem to have lost a bit of power during my break from racing and its frustrating. So I thought the best thing I could possibly do was sulk and then come on here and whinge!
That's better! 🤦♂️😧
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Milzy
Guru
I've got a calor bottle but chucked the heater away. Could get hold of another.Try a paraffin heater, you wont care how cold it is
Milzy
Guru
Saw him at Fred Whitton but bottled talking to him. I'm in the background with my family on that edition he was filming.
And i've tried this tactic loads of times 
Yes unfortunately I am at the bottom of Cat A so quite used to attacking off the back of the peleton early in the racesThe DBR Series is another Danish series of races. They (feltet.dk) were just streaming the DBR race to get things ready for the streaming of the “Feltet.dk Race Series”, which is the one we are going to do.
You are A cat, right? It‘ll be a lonely ride with no teammembers.They will only stream from the A cat, so the rest of us will have to look elsewhere, or stream/record it ourselves...
4 of us signed up for the B Cat so far...
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
I was in cat A for a couple of months at the end of last spring and came into this zwinter expecting to be at a similar level but it took a while to find the race legs again after a summer of mainly leisure cycling. When in Cat B I always just pushed as hard as I could and didn’t really hold back anything even though I don’t think I ever actually won a B race - I did get a few podiums at best. Thisbwinter it took a few races but the zwiftpower race wkg gradually rose - it’s best three races in 90 days if I remember correctly so if you’ve got two good results it might be difficult to avoid the upgrade?
I wouldn’t say it’s anything to fear. Yes you’ll be dropped. I get dropped in any race with anything resembling a hill. I can hold on fine in the likes of volcano circuit or the flat London routes but a box hill or watopia kom and I’m outta there. I race anyway just for the workout and see how long I can hold on for. I’ve done some of the big races with the likes of Zimmerman and West and it’s usually a case of just holding on for as long as I can - targeting getting to 5 mins, 6, 7, 10 is a bonus. I’ve never quit out of a race just because I’ve been dropped - always keep going.
I reckon my FTP is now more like 300w on the neo, and lately i haven’t been feeling on form for some reason. Sadly it’s been a disappointing Zwift season for me but hope I can turn it around in for the last couple of months before the summer.
I’d say go for it Tommy. Nothing to lose and all good training.
Freelanderuk
Über Member
- Location
- Theddlethorpe , Lincolnshire
I missed what you are doing and where if you could mention it again please
I'm doing a Duathlon (2 mile run, 10 mile bike, 2 mile run) at Castle combe race track. Never done anything like this before, and the challenge has become a bit bigger with the prospect of 40mph wind and rain!
