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mjd1988

Guru
Had another power outage after the last supertuck on 2 laps of Harrogate circuit in lead group 😱😱😱

This time I took a video (with 7 nation army blasting away) - cadence is showing but no resistance and no power so need to contact support. Balls.

It always happens after supertuck but is clearly still connected. Luckily I didn't care too much about the result and had pretty much done the workout but if I have to send it back again I'll be raging
 
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Peter Salt

Bittersweet
Location
Yorkshire, UK
Good result in the race today. Beaten just by a few As that broke away on Petit.

Will definitely have to go through a bit of an adjustment period before getting used to the new position.

Likely to do the Splitters TT on Tuesday.
 

Legs

usually riding on Zwift...
Location
Staffordshire
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.
 

alex_cycles

Veteran
Location
Oxfordshire
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.

21 stone! You been to the pie shop? :laugh:
 
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CXRAndy

Guru
Location
Lincs
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 :laugh:

Me Steve and Joffey would be OK we only have to move a decimal point 🤣
 

Peter Salt

Bittersweet
Location
Yorkshire, UK
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.
 

Norry1

Legendary Member
Location
Warwick
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.

Dual or single?
 

alex_cycles

Veteran
Location
Oxfordshire
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.
 

Norry1

Legendary Member
Location
Warwick
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.
 

Peter Salt

Bittersweet
Location
Yorkshire, UK
Dual or single?
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.

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.
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 back :laugh:
 
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