mjd1988
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Could be good to see what we can all manage for a (relatively) steady push, because I know that some of you wheelsuckers very rarely put out a 20-minute effort!
He could be talking about any of us guys
Could be good to see what we can all manage for a (relatively) steady push, because I know that some of you wheelsuckers very rarely put out a 20-minute effort!
I made the mistake of doing the long ToW Stage 3 yesterday evening (I'd not got the route badge for Quatch Quest), on slightly tired legs from having done a workout in the morning. I held my own on Titans Grove and survived to the top of the Epic with the front group, but then got dropped on the descent, ploughed a lonely furrow through the Jungle, and felt my legs completely falling off on AdZ. I managed to get up within an hour (58:15), but I used all of the extra PUs on the way. It was grim. I was 21st/80 on ZwiftPower.
221 TSS, combined with a few days of rest, should set me up nicely for another Tempus Fugit TT on Saturday morning.
I just remembered we had this silly race idea: Everyone sets their weight to 999kg and we go around a course. Glasgow crit circuit would be hilarious![]()
I'm gonna do some testing on it. I'm slightly worried that the crit circuit hill gradients may be too much - at 0.5W/kg the game will just stop and dismount you. I'll try to find an appropriate route and we can do it as a bit of an epilogue to the series - just for fun, times wouldn't matter.
In other news: I just splashed out on the Assioma pedals. Really looking forward to finally riding with power in the real world.
I'm gonna do some testing on it. I'm slightly worried that the crit circuit hill gradients may be too much - at 0.5W/kg the game will just stop and dismount you. I'll try to find an appropriate route and we can do it as a bit of an epilogue to the series - just for fun, times wouldn't matter.
In other news: I just splashed out on the Assioma pedals. Really looking forward to finally riding with power in the real world.
If you set any power records while using a false weight they will count on your CE stats.
They implemented an anti-weight doping scheme a couple of months back. Essentially the idea was to make it hard for weight dopers to manipulate their category. So your weight for the power stats is an average of the weights for each of the records. (Or something like that).
Probably not an issue, but as long as you're aware of it.
There's threads every day about someone letting their kid use their zwift account and getting locked out of their correct category because the kid reduced the weight.
I know at least one Youtube Zwifter set up a second Account when he did a similar weight gain stunt - to go down Alpe de Zwift I think.
Dual. I was tempted to go Uno and maybe do an upgrade to Duo in the future, but the combined cost of that is much higher than just buying the Duo straight away. It also gives me a bit of redundancy (in case I smash or forget to charge one pedal). I did buy the complete pedal set as the bike fitter advised me against the increased Q-factor (that you get when buying just the Shimano-compatible spindles), based on my biomechanics - not entirely happy with that but hey-ho.Dual or single?
We didn't worry about CE until now, so I don't think there's the need to start. I don't think anyone was holding backIf you set any power records while using a false weight they will count on your CE stats.
They implemented an anti-weight doping scheme a couple of months back. Essentially the idea was to make it hard for weight dopers to manipulate their category. So your weight for the power stats is an average of the weights for each of the records. (Or something like that).
Probably not an issue, but as long as you're aware of it.
There's threads every day about someone letting their kid use their zwift account and getting locked out of their correct category because the kid reduced the weight.