Zwift Chat

[Freelanderuk]

Cheers guys good ride again, well done all, I just blew up on the 1st climb, I had very little warm up and chuffing about with trying to sort discord out just threw me

Again well done the rest of you

 

[Brendan Parker]

well done everyone, was really good to watch, I managed to record the C group ride and trying to upload to youtube now so will put up once uploaded. i was recording Peterson for a lot of the first lap so we can all see his game, I was trying to get messages through to Whorty via companion after the split but as I was nowhere near him app couldn't find him, spotted a couple I let him know about when i could, but yer discord is the way forward for this sort of thing. perhaps depending on the course one of us could sit out and advise. @Marino.g great first C ride

 

[Milzy]

What on Earth happened? I ducked out for some nice zone 2/3 tabata work. Been smelling nasty paint fumes all day. I'm on a fine line between building base or racing and burning out at the moment.

 

[CXRAndy]

90 seconds in and everyone disappered. I kept pushing for a minute or so but then gave up. They all came back after 12 minutes. I'm just doing a Zone 2 ride to finish and maybe get 1 point.

I lost all the riders in the the pen for a minute, they did return just in time. No problems on course, apart from being out paced

 

[CXRAndy]

Ugh. I didn't realize we were riding Richmond until it was too late... I hate that course. Not unexpectedly, the climbs killed me.

Congrats Carl for beating J. Ferres, I always found him amazingly annoying when I was battling him at the top of C a couple years back.

You came 4th Jeff

 

[Joffey]

Just about to come on here and congratulate @Ketty on a great performance - a superbly paced race and brilliant climbing - and ZwiftPower's (admittedly provisional) results are showing him as WKG DQ'd! I'm really surprised, because he wasn't in the lead group that was doing 3+ w/kg for the first 20 minutes, so therefore I'd have thought he would be under the limit. I did manage to make that group and thought I might be cutting it fine, but I have come in under the limit somehow.

Other than that, a superb performance from the D crew. Yes we didn't knock out our DBR nemesis J.B, but @Joffey beat him in the first sprint and he didn't make the lead group that I was in, so I took 1st in the second sprint (pretty much uncontested)! At present myself, Joffey and @JLaw have 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the overall standings as well.

Going to check if my video recorded successfully - if so, I'll put it on YouTube fairly soon.

Strange old night! I was knackered after that sprint but found myself riding with JB & @JLaw - I was trying to make JB do all the work on the front but he was having none of it and all three of us drifted back and if I remember rightly were overtaken. We then caught a group but me and JLaw lost contact on the climbs. We rode together until the final set of climbs then I don't know what happened - one minute he was with me and then next he was gone! Thanks for the company and help round though @JLaw

Had a weird experience on my trainer - there was little resistance on the climbs and lots of resistance in parts of the flat - it really messed with my ride. I tried to calibrate it before and after but it wasn't having none of it. Any idea what's going on there? It's a Tacx Flux S. I moved it around the garage yesterday... have I upset it?

Well done to all of Cat D - I don't know what's happened to @Ketty's result, he wasn't as fast as JB was he?

 

[mjd1988]

well done everyone, was really good to watch, I managed to record the C group ride and trying to upload to youtube now so will put up once uploaded. i was recording Peterson for a lot of the first lap so we can all see his game, I was trying to get messages through to Whorty via companion after the split but as I was nowhere near him app couldn't find him, spotted a couple I let him know about when i could, but yer discord is the way forward for this sort of thing. perhaps depending on the course one of us could sit out and advise. @Marino.g great first C ride

Excellent level of obsessionality. I will definitely watch it

 

[Del C]

90 seconds in and everyone disappered. I kept pushing for a minute or so but then gave up. They all came back after 12 minutes. I'm just doing a Zone 2 ride to finish and maybe get 1 point.

Same for me too Martin , couldn’t be bothered to roll round .

Make that 3 of us then.

Exactly the same for me, even down to the time it all came back and I was back in the ride.

I thought you two must have had the same trouble. I saw a green jersey ahead of me on the section under the railway overpass before Libby Hill, rolled past him and saw it was Andy. Then looked up at the rider board and saw that Martin was about 3.5 minutes ahead of me. I had a dig on the climbs and the sprint and then gave up.

Just to rub it in I had a PB out of the starting pens tonight!

I'm pretty sure my problem was an Internet failure. I'm with Virgin Media. Who are you guys with?

 

[Alongo]

Make that 3 of us then.

Exactly the same for me, even down to the time it all came back and I was back in the ride.

I thought you two must have had the same trouble. I saw a green jersey ahead of me on the section under the railway overpass before Libby Hill, rolled past him and saw it was Andy. Then looked up at the rider board and saw that Martin was about 3.5 minutes ahead of me. I had a dig on the climbs and the sprint and then gave up.

Just to rub it in I had a PB out of the starting pens tonight!

I'm pretty sure my problem was an Internet failure. I'm with Virgin Media. Who are you guys with?

Virgin media too Del ,

 

[mjd1988]

@Whorty you've hoovered up loads of sprint points 👍

 

[Del C]

i was recording Peterson for a lot of the first lap so we can all see his game @Marino.g great first C ride

Ah Petersen!

Did he appear to be 'dead' at any time?

 

[Whorty]

Well done @Whorty - currently 4th on the road but a possible DA ahead of you, so could be a podium!

Thanks Nick. That was hard work. I went into the KoMs in contention, but most of the group left me for dead on the climbs.

Not checked out B and Ds yet .... how'd you all do?

 

[Whorty]

@Whorty you've hoovered up loads of sprint points 👍

I was trying to keep Petersen from taking them all once you dropped out the group. He pipped me on the first sprint but I managed to better him on the 2nd (actually he didn't go for that). Couldn't do much on the KoMs though

 

[Del C]

Thanks Nick. That was hard work. I went into the KoMs in contention, but most of the group left me for dead on the climbs.

Not checked out B and Ds yet .... how'd you all do?

Waiting for @Norry1 to confirm, but it looks like 3 of us were wiped out by VirginMedia. @Alongo already confirmed.

Internet failure of about 11 minutes. I worked for the bastards for 8 years!!

 

[Milzy]

Strange old night! I was knackered after that sprint but found myself riding with JB & @JLaw - I was trying to make JB do all the work on the front but he was having none of it and all three of us drifted back and if I remember rightly were overtaken. We then caught a group but me and JLaw lost contact on the climbs. We rode together until the final set of climbs then I don't know what happened - one minute he was with me and then next he was gone! Thanks for the company and help round though @JLaw

Had a weird experience on my trainer - there was little resistance on the climbs and lots of resistance in parts of the flat - it really messed with my ride. I tried to calibrate it before and after but it wasn't having none of it. Any idea what's going on there? It's a Tacx Flux S. I moved it around the garage yesterday... have I upset it?

Well done to all of Cat D - I don't know what's happened to @Ketty's result, he wasn't as fast as JB was he?

Apperntly moving trainers around with the exception been Neos can upset them into needing re-calibration.