Zwift Chat

[mjd1988]

Just caught up on this morning's posts.

We've had suggestions of running this weekly, fortnightly or monthly. I was thinking of fortnightly for now, just to help it fit round people's racing schedules and the fact that better weather looks to be coming. That was my fourth race this week. I enjoyed it, but I expected to blow up on the last KoM and I didn't let myself down!

Of course, in winter we could step it up if people have more time available to them, with shorter days and worse weather outside, but we don't have to decide that now.

Useful inputs on Hare and Hounds timings and looking at Zwift Insiders course difficulty index. I think both of these could be helpful if we move to a new course, but for now I tend to side with those who've said that tweaking last night's handicaps and running the next event on the same course seems to be the best way to go.

Finally, on the choice of day. I picked Friday because the survey put Friday in first place. 2nd was Wednesday and 3rd was Thursday. Very few people seemed to want Monday or Tuesday. Since then, about 3 or 4 people have said that Friday may be a problem for them going forward. I'm quite happy to move to another day. For me, Wednesday would be second choice. I think about 6 of us are involved in the TTT event on Thursday, so that's going to knock a big hole in the teams. I'd have to back out of my road club's ITT on a Wednesday (which I'm one of the organisers of) but I could do that.

So, I'm suggesting fortnightly, tweak the handicaps, stay on the same course for now and maybe move to Wednesday if that's the consensus. I'm happy to look at some other courses and handicaps in the background and put some suggestions up if people want me to.

Views?

Fortnightly makes sense, thanks again for all the work you've put in. Wouldn't mind trying a different course though but most people seem to want to reuse that one

 

[Brendan Parker]

I also think fortnightly. Friday was good for me but will also be fine if moved to Wednesday.
thanks again @Del C @bridgy for organising. Great event

 

[Add]

I’m actually coming at it from a different angle, and am quite happy for you to schedule it for a day and time I CAN’T make.

 

[Del C]

I’m actually coming at it from a different angle, and am quite happy for you to schedule it for a day and time I CAN’T make.

Did you race it in that kit in your avatar last night?

 

[Add]

Did you race it in that kit in your avatar last night?

A lot less air resistance I find.

 

[mjd1988]

I kept accidentally parking my bike when you were in front

 

[IrishAl]

Can I just point out that the "A" team has only two actual A cat riders in it - Pete who is coming back from injury and Lee who is only cat A because he tripped, fell and did a 20 minute crit race which carelessly tipped him over the line to A cat by about 0.03 w/kg!

if I had remembered you boys were A cats I would have given much more abuse on Discord last night.

Fortnightly makes sense, thanks again for all the work you've put in. Wouldn't mind trying a different course though but most people seem to want to reuse that one

fortnightly on weds will work for me too. Maybe once we move back into Autumn we can up the frequency?

id also prefer to try a different course just to add some variety It will go with the flow. And the timings shouldn’t be an exact science. Every club race I do there is nearly always a group not happy with the gaps and as someone said there are a lot of variables even if we go on the same course again. maybe set the gaps to a nice round number , to the nearest 30 seconds,

that was my 3rd race in 4 days, and I was feeling it in the first 30 minutes as I couldn’t get my heart rate up to normal. I’ll be fresh the next time

 

[<Tommy>]

The thing about sticking with the same course is it might be a little repetitive. But it does reduce the variables. I’d highly recommend sticking with the same course of at least one more attempt so we have a bit more data to go on. Then we can start shifting it about more.

 

[Add]

I’m happy to repeat that course at least once, whilst we embed some good practises and fine tune the punishment. If we could give the A team (pffft) a leg up, that could potentially make for a pretty exciting finish. Have to see if we can rope Deano and Kipster into the next one?

 

[Norry1]

I’m happy to repeat that course at least once, whilst we embed some good practises and fine tune the punishment. If we could give the A team (pffft) a leg up, that could potentially make for a pretty exciting finish. Have to see if we can rope Deano and Kipster into the next one?

And lars @LBHIFI

 

[<Tommy>]

I’m happy to repeat that course at least once, whilst we embed some good practises and fine tune the punishment. If we could give the A team (pffft) a leg up, that could potentially make for a pretty exciting finish. Have to see if we can rope Deano and Kipster into the next one?

Just so long as you done expect a leg up in return! 😳

 

[Randyberlin]

A glowing condemnation of my ability, thankyou Tommy.

Are those new gloves?

 

[CXRAndy]

And lars @LBHIFI

I havent seen any rides from lars for quite a few weeks

 

[Del C]

I'm signed up for DBR tomorrow

 

[BurningLegs]

I'm signed up for DBR tomorrow

Me too - replacement heart rate strap arrived from eBay seller yesterday