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Haven't seen you in a while Adam, nice to see you in the event
Think most of us faded trying to catch or stay away from someone
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Why do you allow your power to spike up and down so much on the climbs, Andy? On the upper slopes of Fox, you were regularly pushing 350W, but then dropping back to 200W, sometimes less. I find it much less physiologically demanding to try for a constant-ish power (though, for a given overall effort, which approach manifests itself in a higher avatar speed is a matter of much debate...)
My legs are feeling trashed from last night. Although I pulled out a decent lead on the first ascent, I lost 10s or so on the descent - wasn't able to get the supertuck working - and had to push really hard on the flat to keep a safe margin for the second climb - it seemed from the timings that Paul, Pete and Adam were working pretty well together. I was also on my Bridgestone Anchor / Meilensteins, because I figured the race would be won and lost on the climbs.
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I am an A, but not by much. I knew I had to push hard to get away because @bridgy has got great 1- to 5-minute power for climbs like Fox, and @Peter Salt 's sprinting w/kg would leave me standing. I was right on the limit and all three of you were clawing back time on me on the second climb.
Cheers Andy , The first climb felt relatively easy and I knew I was near a PB hence the sprint at the end ( and the bonus of beating Carl ) and the second climb I did have a carrot to chase up it !. Your video needed the jaws music playing on the second climb .Phil, you rode two very consistent Fox hills, only 5s difference and a new PB too
Glad I got a gap on the flat section or I would have been burnt toast
Fox hill is the one hill in zwift that seems to suit me having done it many times during FRR and I understand were to push etc
To be honest we didn't worth particularly well together - I think we were all knackered! My power on the climb was way off my previous best (by around 40 watts) - no excuses but I'm just currently not in my best form - I haven't been this year at all to be honest after setbacks from flu and Covid after Xmas I've just never got back to my best (yet!). I certainly knew quite quickly that I couldn't match your power first time up Fox Hill last night.
I didn't realise until the results came up quite how close I'd got back up to you on the final climb - I think it was only about 15 seconds in the end. The one encouraging thing from the ride was that I was a bit faster on the second ascent, so although I feel my fitness is a bit crap right now it can't be too awful! No way I could have done what you did with that long solo effot though - well done!
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You'll be back on it soon enough, Paul!
I think I was trying to hang on, so I find I can power up to get back onto the wheel and then ease off. I should train more to be consistent. Trouble is I've not done any structured training with consistent power for so long- its all racing where it is micro bursts hanging onto wheel in the pack.
It would be good to see your aspect Paul. I had been changing view on my recordings to capture nearly everyone, when I was solo.
I would have expected a small pack to reel a solo rider in. By the sounds of it, everyone had loss of form from fatigue/illness.
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Haven't seen you in a while Adam, nice to see you in the event
Think most of us faded trying to catch or stay away from someone
It was nice to be in. I couldn’t reply to Carl in the chat box, think there’s a bug for me half of time.
Sometimes you push harder in these small races than following a huge pack in mainstream ones.
