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[alex_cycles]

Damn, wish I'd joined now to spoil their party 😁

I wish you had it would have been fun. Got my best ever ZP ranking points on race 1 (first time under 300). Happy with that.
Drags the CCC team up a few places in the team rankings. It seems they average the highest ranked 3 riders in each team.

 

[CXRAndy]

I'm third

 

[alex_cycles]

I'm third

Yep. Come on! Win a few more races or get some points so we can intimidate the opposition with a better team ranking
I'm sure ART and Green Dragons are peeing their pants at our climbing ranking

 

[CXRAndy]

I'm surprised having not consciously targeted it

 

[CXRAndy]

Did you lot see the men's and women's World championship races?

 

[Peter Salt]

Did you lot see the men's and women's World championship races?

Just watching the men's now so no spoilers please.

The women's - watched that yesterday. What a finish, eh? Reminded me of @Whorty

 

[CXRAndy]

What Whorty got boobs🤣

 

[Peter Salt]

What Whorty got boobs🤣

Was thinking more about surprising everyone with his premature finish

 

[Whorty]

What Whorty got boobs🤣

Moobs

 

[Whorty]

Was thinking more about surprising everyone with his premature finish

My lady friends get used to this now

 

[mjd1988]

Just did a hare and hounds with a huge field (rhino chase).

Really tight finish, 3 groups together inside the last 1km. Wonder if there is an algorithm - it would be good to have another cyclechat one, but only if a computer could work out the time gaps to save the arguing

Unless anyone does a

Spoiler: Spoiler

evenepoel

 

[alex_cycles]

Just did a hare and hounds with a huge field (rhino chase).

Really tight finish, 3 groups together inside the last 1km. Wonder if there is an algorithm - it would be good to have another cyclechat one, but only if a computer could work out the time gaps to save the arguing

Did one this morning for the first time. Great fun. I came 5th in C and our group of 6, which broke down in the last 2km, once we were ahead of D all beat the Ds. Then, when the results came through, two of the leading three were way over cat limit and the other wasn't on Zwift Power, so I was 2nd and our 4th qualifying rider was behind the Ds AND Bs. Annoying, but I'll take the silver

Would be really good fun to do a cyclechat one.


One way to handicap it could be to pick a route, look at the best strava times of entrants and average the category groups.
I'd be willing to have a look into that. We wouldn't necessarily have to use ZP categories either. Could set the bands where it's convenient.
And by basing it on times rather than W/kg or W it would be... wait for it... RESULTS BASED

 

[BurningLegs]

Good luck with that @alex_cycles

 

[alex_cycles]

Good luck with that @alex_cycles

Haha - think I may need it. Best ever times doesn't take "current form" into account or how big was the group you were riding/racing with. But I still can't see it being any worse than a single W/kg figure - particularly if averaged off into groups of 4+.
If there are takers for it, I'll give it a try and we'll see. But let's get tomorrow's TTT out the way first

 

[Whorty]

Good luck with that @alex_cycles

Yeah, bless @alex_cycles ..... He may have volunteered for the poisoned chalice