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I had that in the first ride ... I rode on for a minute but no one came back so I bailed. Very frustrating, I feel your pain!
BurningLegs
Guru
I’m not on Virgin and had no issues. So could be a VM problem...
I think I got it tactically right tonight - sat in as much as I could and worked where I needed to. Those hills are painful though in a race, especially when the lead guys are pushing hard ... I went over the first time at the back but just managed to latch on to the group as they caught their breath. Sat in long enough to get my recovery then pushed for the sprints to try to deny Petersen points. A good workout
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
No, he finished about halfway between JB and me.
He caught me at the top of Libby Hill on the first lap and we rode together for the next climb, but I struggled on the final climb and he continued to pull away even after we got to the flats. However, I then hopped on the back of a duo of fast Spaniards as they passed me approaching the next sprint and with their draft I was able to reel him back in. He then joined us for the next half lap to make a pack of four, but we all split up as soon as the climb started. I lost sight of him, but watching at the board on the right, he did an outstanding effort on the last two climbs as he reeled in at least one more rider and closed the gap to JB to about 30-40 seconds I think.
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
I can confirm virgin media are having problems tonight. Bad luck fellas
@Ketty rode a powerful race but too powerful for Cat D and made the same mistake as myself before.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?
His average power went over the 2.5 and if you notice Jb is clever and paces it out.
He knows what he’s doing ..
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He does like to talk
I was starting to feel a little sorry for Petersen ... well, up until he left me for dead on the final climbs 12th on ZP Chris - cracking riding again. All 5 of us in top 30 is a great team result.
Big kudos to @Marino.g
VM had several national outages from 5pm today.
Also to build on the cyber security earlier in today, while it’s always good to have different passwords for different sites it’s a pain to remember them. A password tool app is helpful to store them but it’s also useful to set long password ie 13 to 15 characters. For reference a 7 character password can take about 0.5 second to crack and a 15 character password about 13 millennia (or something along those lines), so worth doing. But who wants to try and remember a long password. The easy way is three unrelated words for example grassyellowdoor. Even better if one of the words is foreign as 99% of password cracking lists are in the English language. I have also registered a domain so register on each websitewith a different email address, easy to spot which ones sold or compromised my details.
I saw your messages Brendan - really appreciated themwell 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
I hope your video shows how hard I was working
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
I can only think his best 20 minutes must have been achieved during the climbs, because he stayed with the main pack in the flats on the first lap, whereas I crossed the gap post-first sprint and got myself in the lead group with all the sandbaggers / out of Cat riders.
Yes, I did notice that JB didn't follow me when I made that jump - otherwise I'm pretty sure he'd have gone over as well! The good news is that @Joffey and me have proved he is beatable in a flat sprint - it's not easy, but it can be done. Bring on the next week's flat course!
EDIT: my mistake - I've just watched back my footage (video uploading to YouTube now, will be there in 15 minutes) and @Ketty WAS in the lead group with me at the second sprint. So yes, it is very possible he pushed the limits to stay with that group.
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Freelanderuk
Über Member
- Location
- Theddlethorpe , Lincolnshire
I think I got a couple of 4th place sprints also so extra points for the team and a Pb second time up the kom
