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Norry1

Legendary Member
Location
Warwick
Isn't it odd how when you sometimes feel a bit crap, some of best results pop up:wacko:

I was feeling a bit flat partly from Tuesday 2hour ride which really took it out of me and being fasted from yesterday

So I decided to glucose loads whilst warming up, drank 500 mil water 85 grams of castor sugar.

Boom 💥💥💥

Felt strong, held good position each time up to the Arc.

1000W sprint reappeared :hyper:

Came third in the race, promotion to 🥈 :biggrin:

Video of my finish sprint to follow

View: https://youtu.be/EJQYv1-tMWo


ZZ top really worked a treat too :boxing:


Yep I agree. Sometimes you feel rubbish but somehow a great performance pops out. I try and remind myself about this when I'm on a start line feeling lousy.

Nice to get the sprint back. Wish mine would hurry up ^_^
 

alex_cycles

Veteran
Location
Oxfordshire
Are you still in the new dirt B squad Alex? Those guys are very powerful

The "Steamers" have four or five teams and you rotate around according to how many people sign up. This week I was in the Steamers Loco which was mostly Cs (we had 2 Bs). It was a bit more blobby than when I was with the stronger group, but also very rolling/hilly compared with France. I still did 45 minutes at 93% IF though. Hard session.

We were given the instruction to "gun it" for the last 600m or so uphill finish, so it would have been rude not to :biggrin: ...

View: https://youtu.be/_aFlYqUVKRc?t=2668

New climby TT bike and wheels too. Felt IA2 + Enve 7.8
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- need them for the upcoming DRS which has a TTT on Knickerbocker and an iTT with FTS up the Volcano. Starts Tuesday with 16 laps of Downtown Dolphin with FAL on laps 2 & 8 lap banners and FTS on lap 15 sprint banner.
 
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Legs

usually riding on Zwift...
Location
Staffordshire
The guy who won is a monster, winning races all over the place.

His ranking of less than 100 points, that's over 100 points better than me and makes Carl's ranking look a bit pah!

https://zwiftpower.com/profile.php?z=1198710

He must be right on the cusp of moving up into B - I'd be surprised if he isn't CE'd up soon. Looking at his race history, he's evidently quite capable of putting out a 20min 300W+ effort, but just doesn't need to, so he hasn't done it since the summer of '21, even in the time when he was riding as a B. Archetypal cruiser. To give him his dues, he does still race 'up' in B from time to time (often in <20min events, though!).
 

alex_cycles

Veteran
Location
Oxfordshire
He must be right on the cusp of moving up into B - I'd be surprised if he isn't CE'd up soon. Looking at his race history, he's evidently quite capable of putting out a 20min 300W+ effort, but just doesn't need to, so he hasn't done it since the summer of '21, even in the time when he was riding as a B. Archetypal cruiser. To give him his dues, he does still race 'up' in B from time to time (often in <20min events, though!).

He's almost platinum on ZR.app (and has been) https://www.zwiftracing.app/riders/1198710

In other ZR.app news. There is now an "anti-tank missile" algorithm. I don't think the details of how it works are being made public (in order to make it harder to game) but, now, if you try to do this...

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...it will no longer work. (The guy who did this is a much stronger rider than me and I'm a strongish Gold 1)
 

13 rider

Guru
Location
leicester
Did tour of watopia stage 4 yesterday ,dust in the wind circuit . Felt I really raced it well ,hung on to the front over the rollers to titans and let the fast riders go over Titans then was always in a small group picking up riders dropping riders ,coming out the jungle was in a group of 8 which splintered up the climb ,I sprinted back on to the lead 3 as we crested the tarmac climb after you come out of the jungle and we rode together to the finish putting over a minute in to the group behind so the sprint to join was vital . Out sprinted 2 of the 4 for 28th on zp . Think the other riders were B cat so happy with performance . Felt I burnt my matches when required
 

alex_cycles

Veteran
Location
Oxfordshire
Did tour of watopia stage 4 yesterday ,dust in the wind circuit . Felt I really raced it well ,hung on to the front over the rollers to titans and let the fast riders go over Titans then was always in a small group picking up riders dropping riders ,coming out the jungle was in a group of 8 which splintered up the climb ,I sprinted back on to the lead 3 as we crested the tarmac climb after you come out of the jungle and we rode together to the finish putting over a minute in to the group behind so the sprint to join was vital . Out sprinted 2 of the 4 for 28th on zp . Think the other riders were B cat so happy with performance . Felt I burnt my matches when required

Sounds great. Did you bike swap for the Jungle?
 
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