Zwift Chat

[steverob]

Looks like it might be the first fully rained out weekend in quite a while round my area (October was glorious for outdoor riding) so I’m probably going to do Race Makuri on Saturday and the Herd Winter League on Sunday (or maybe the other way round - see how I feel).

 

[Randyberlin]

Don't think I know anyone who likes it

Hey hey hey!! One of my guys will be getting sweet sweet overtime to change times on everything from defibrillator s to CT scanner. Some point to time servers but a lot are stand alone still.
So yes, there are a very select few who get a little benefit from it. We lose almost 5 minutes a day so the actual change doesn't make much difference. Except the dogs still get us up at what they say is 5 am.

 

[Legs]

Had a sore throat and a funny tummy keep me awake last night (awake from 0030 to 0430, then up at 0600…) then a long drive to work in Doncaster this morning (via Sheffield to pick up Daniel’s Christmas present 🚲); a mostly pointless site visit which involved waiting around for someone with the right key, then resorting to bolt-cutters; shocking traffic on the A1(M) down to Sherwood Pines (had a good hack about, considering the lack of sleep, throat feeling much better); and horrendous traffic back to Uttoxeter (48 miles in 2hr20m). Going to have to be quite creative with my timesheet for today!

 

[Joffey]

Nailed on the 4 above me don't get DQ'd when the results are finalised - the tragic gimps

 

[alex_cycles]

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Nailed on the 4 above me don't get DQ'd when the results are finalised - the tragic gimps

What's the cutoff? Meant to be 2.5 isn't it? Or is it like ZRL where they can increase it a bit?

 

[Joffey]

What's the cutoff? Meant to be 2.5 isn't it? Or is it like ZRL where they can increase it a bit?

I think it's 2.5 - but they won't want to be DQ'ing 4

EDIT - the road book says Cat D is 1.0 to 2.4 w/kg (it will be 2.49 as C starts at 2.5) Those gimps best get DQ'd

 

[alex_cycles]

That league looks like sandbaggers heaven to me. Even more so than ZRL.

Just looking at tonight's results. The ZP results differ from the raw zwift results. Even though it was <20 minute race, they've DQed those who went much above 3.4 W/kg So maybe not quite so sandbaggy after all? Must be stripped out at source because they're not in the "filtered" results on ZP. The guy at #5 got gold.

 

[alex_cycles]

I think it's 2.5 - but they won't want to be DQ'ing 4

EDIT - the road book says Cat D is 1.0 to 2.4 w/kg (it will be 2.49 as C starts at 2.5) Those gimps best get DQ'd

Hope they do, but #2 and #3 are RWBs.

 

[Joffey]

Hope they do, but #2 and #3 are RWBs.

Looks like one guy got DQ’d as he was over 2.59, sadly the others remain. But the guy who got DQ’d and one other are now Cat C’s thanks to tonight’s efforts and they are the only 2 riders above me in the league so I’ll take that.

Just need to get my head down, do well in the last 4 races and see what happens 🤞🏻

 

[<Tommy>]

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Nailed on the 4 above me don't get DQ'd when the results are finalised - the tragic gimps

😄

It looks like you’re making good progress mate 👍👌

To be fair the tragic gimps aren’t the ones getting promoted. They’re the ones hiding below the radar who will make sure they never get promoted!

 

[Norry1]

I had another bash at Stage 1 of Race Makuri yesterday and improved my time by nearly a minute. This felt harder than the last race and I couldn't quite stary with the lead group of 4 up the Castle KOM. I dropped back and joined a chasing group of 8 and we managed to reel the front guys in. As previously, the group then stayed together until the final sprint and I came 5th of 12 on the road and third in ZP. My sprint is very slowly coming back but I don't want to push too hard at the moment.

Zwift increased my FTP to 194W as a result which seems about right.

@alex_cycles how did you look at the Team rankings for this? I clicked on Team Standings when looking at the 2022 Makuri tab in "Leagues" but nothing comes up.

 

[alex_cycles]

I had another bash at Stage 1 of Race Makuri yesterday and improved my time by nearly a minute. This felt harder than the last race and I couldn't quite stary with the lead group of 4 up the Castle KOM. I dropped back and joined a chasing group of 8 and we managed to reel the front guys in. As previously, the group then stayed together until the final sprint and I came 5th of 12 on the road and third in ZP. My sprint is very slowly coming back but I don't want to push too hard at the moment.

Zwift increased my FTP to 194W as a result which seems about right.

@alex_cycles how did you look at the Team rankings for this? I clicked on Team Standings when looking at the 2022 Makuri tab in "Leagues" but nothing comes up.

Team rankings in general is broken on ZP at the moment, but you can filter by team to get all the individual scores in a team.

If you go to the league results page https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=1316 then click All and Cyclechat, you should see this...

 

[Norry1]

Team rankings in general is broken on ZP at the moment, but you can filter by team to get all the individual scores in a team.

If you go to the league results page https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=1316 then click All and Cyclechat, you should see this...
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Ah cheers, that worked. I was clicking the "Team Standings" tab.

 

[alex_cycles]

Ah cheers, that worked. I was clicking the "Team Standings" tab.

That was working a couple of weeks ago, but it broke (as did team rankings in general). Hopefully they'll fix it zoon

 

[<Tommy>]

Is anyone racing today? I’m thinking I try mid afternoon if anyone fancies it