alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
24 in my garage for the double Bologna today. I had all three fans on. The two I can reach on full.
Still hit 196 BPM (max is 197 )
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24 in my garage for the double Bologna today. I had all three fans on. The two I can reach on full.
Still hit 196 BPM (max is 197 )
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Did the Volcano in 7:37. Quite happy, considering current levels of fitness. Just 7s off PB 
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
I don’t know, I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to log into the dreadful Elite ‘Upgrado’ app (in spite of using the right email and password…) 😠
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
The fact their app is actually called that made me chuckle. Maybe try adding Italian accent to your password?
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
mjd1988
Guru
Thats a shame
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Maybe the data centre went out due to heat?
I haven't noticed. Have been volunteering at a local rugby club yesterday - spreading gravel, painting posts, that sort of stuff.
Last night's road race didn't go as expected.
I warmed up well and felt good as we set off. As instructed by Roy, I attacked early on - about 2/3 of the way into the first lap. I got a gap and one guy came with me - but we sat up as the pack was working well to chase us down.
We joined and as I was thinking about attack #2 a racer from the earlier race was waving at us to stop - there had been a bad crash in his race and the road was blocked waiting for the ambulance. End of race. Hope the injured guy is ok.
I warmed up well and felt good as we set off. As instructed by Roy, I attacked early on - about 2/3 of the way into the first lap. I got a gap and one guy came with me - but we sat up as the pack was working well to chase us down.
We joined and as I was thinking about attack #2 a racer from the earlier race was waving at us to stop - there had been a bad crash in his race and the road was blocked waiting for the ambulance. End of race. Hope the injured guy is ok.
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
For future reference, and it took me until mid evening to figure this out, we can all still chat on discord if the cc server goes down.
After about 6 hours offline I was thinking "I don't know how to contact any of these guys. Perhaps I can leave a comment on someone's Strava. And then I remembered the discord."
First steering race yesterday. It was a ladder race. Didn't finish very well (9/10 - got dropped carelessly in the last 800m).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaWcP_uZqo
I found the steering to be quite useful on twisty bits for getting ahead. After 20km I'd done 200m less than the guys without steering (so had 2 of my steering-enabled team-mates). I also found that the level of mental effort required to steer constantly was much higher than I expected which made it more tiring. (Also much harder to "just sit in and draft"). Perhaps this will become the new normal and settle down as I get used to it? (Probably doing double Bologna the day before didn't help my outcome
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alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
So one trick you could try is a hard acceleration (as if you were on the outside on a corner) going up the inside line, that should help you shoot past loads of people. Then you can try braking to get back in the draft
Didn't have the ability to surge and tease the pack. I did shuffle to the inside on most corners or at least got central in the leaders. I used the steering well up Libby and it gained me quite a few places.
More importantly lungs didn't retreat into an asthma attack during or afterwards.
More importantly lungs didn't retreat into an asthma attack during or afterwards.
